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Vivek N. Prakash

Assistant Professor, Departments of Physics, Biology, Marine Biology & Ecology, University …
Verified email at miami.edu
Cited by 629

Culinary fluid mechanics and other currents in food science

AJTM Mathijssen, M Lisicki, VN Prakash… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
Innovations in fluid mechanics have been leading to better food since ancient history, while
creativity in cooking has inspired fundamental breakthroughs in science. This review …

[HTML][HTML] Vortex arrays and ciliary tangles underlie the feeding–swimming trade-off in starfish larvae

W Gilpin, VN Prakash, M Prakash - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
Many marine invertebrates have larval stages covered in linear arrays of beating cilia, which
propel the animal while simultaneously entraining planktonic prey 1 . These bands are …

Three-dimensional Lagrangian Voronoï analysis for clustering of particles and bubbles in turbulence

Y Tagawa, JM Mercado, VN Prakash… - Journal of fluid …, 2012 - cambridge.org
Three-dimensional Voronoï analysis is used to quantify the clustering of inertial particles in
homogeneous isotropic turbulence using data sets from numerics in the point particle limit …

Energy spectra in turbulent bubbly flows

VN Prakash, JM Mercado… - Journal of fluid …, 2016 - cambridge.org
We conduct experiments in a turbulent bubbly flow to study the nature of the transition
between the classical ). Therefore, it is a generic feature of turbulent bubbly flows, and the …

Motility-induced fracture reveals a ductile-to-brittle crossover in a simple animal's epithelia

VN Prakash, MS Bull, M Prakash - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Epithelial tissues provide an important barrier function in animals, but these tissues are
subjected to extreme strains during day-to-day activities such as feeding and locomotion. …

Non-bilaterians as model systems for tissue mechanics

…, G Madhu, M Ruszczyk, VN Prakash - Integrative and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
… Images in this figure are adapted and reproduced from Prakash et al. (2021). … VNP thanks
Manu Prakash, Stanford University, for introduction to non-bilaterians and for many stimulating …

Wake-driven dynamics of finite-sized buoyant spheres in turbulence

V Mathai, VN Prakash, J Brons, C Sun, D Lohse - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
Particles suspended in turbulent flows are affected by the turbulence and at the same time
act back on the flow. The resulting coupling can give rise to rich variability in their dynamics. …

Flowtrace: simple visualization of coherent structures in biological fluid flows

…, VN Prakash, M Prakash - Journal of experimental …, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
We present a simple, intuitive algorithm for visualizing time-varying flow fields that can reveal
complex flow structures with minimal user intervention. We apply this technique to a variety …

[HTML][HTML] Kitchen flows: Making science more accessible, affordable, and curiosity driven

…, EJL Mossige, R Pasquino, VN Prakash… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Culinary fluid mechanics is the study of everything that flows related to food, covering a wide
range of surprising phenomena that can be harnessed for the benefit of gastronomy, or to …

How gravity and size affect the acceleration statistics of bubbles in turbulence

VN Prakash, Y Tagawa, E Calzavarini… - New journal of …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the results of the first systematic Lagrangian experimental investigation in a
previously unexplored regime of very light (air bubbles in water) and large (D/η≫ 1) particles in …