no code implementations • 16 Oct 2024 • Vishaal Krishnan, Sumit Sinha, L. Mahadevan
Patterns arise spontaneously in a range of systems spanning the sciences, and their study typically focuses on mechanisms to understand their evolution in space-time.
no code implementations • 26 Mar 2023 • N. Charles, R. Chelakkot, M. Gazzola, B. Young, L. Mahadevan
All together, our characterization of a novel escape strategy in snakes highlights the role of topology in locomotion, provides a phase diagram for mode feasibility as a function of body size, and suggests a role for the S-start in the evolution of sidewinding.
no code implementations • 7 Nov 2022 • Thomas C. T. Michaels, L. Mahadevan
Effective multicellularity requires both cooperation and competition between constituent cells.
no code implementations • 2 Sep 2020 • F. Giardina, L. Mahadevan
Walking is a common bipedal and quadrupedal gait and is often associated with terrestrial and aquatic organisms.
1 code implementation • 6 Jul 2020 • Nicholas J. Derr, David C. Fronk, Christoph A. Weber, Amala Mahadevan, Chris H. Rycroft, L. Mahadevan
Channel formation and branching is widely seen in physical systems where movement of fluid through a porous structure causes the spatiotemporal evolution of the medium in response to the flow, in turn causing flow pathways to evolve.
Fluid Dynamics Soft Condensed Matter 76S05 (Primary) 92C15 (Secondary)