Bulletin of the American Physical Society
69th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics
Volume 61, Number 20
Sunday–Tuesday, November 20–22, 2016; Portland, Oregon
Session N40: Ants, eyelashes, and the 2015 Ig Nobel Prize in PhysicsInvited Session
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Chair: John Dabiri, Stanford University Room: Portland Ballroom 253-258-254-257 |
Tuesday, November 22, 2016 10:45AM - 11:20AM |
N40.00001: Ants, eyelashes, and the 2015 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics Invited Speaker: David Hu The zoo can be a source of recreation and rich scientific investigation. In this lecture, I will give an overview of my recent research with animals at the Atlanta Zoo. We will talk about how to make ant hamburgers, how eyelashes reduce evaporation of your eyes by a factor of two, and why mammals urinate for the same duration of 21 seconds. Although animal-inspired research can sound trendy, it can lead the way toward potential future directions in fluid mechanics, including the dynamics of active materials, flow through hairy surfaces, and the physics of digestion and excretion. [Preview Abstract] |
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