USC Eva Kanso's Biodynamics Lab

USC Eva Kanso's Biodynamics Lab updated their business hours.

Clean-up day turned into painting day! Welcome to the all new look of our lab!

We hosted more than thirty middle school students last Friday and shared a few cool experiments with them!

We celebrated the end of the academic year with a hike to the echo mountain followed by a BBQ at Eva's place! Good job everyone! Many achievements this year!

Brendan and Mohamad's work is now featured on the USC homepage! Congrats!
https://news.usc.edu/140408/water-patterns-new-technologies-usc/

What water patterns tell us about new technologies

Congrats to Brendan and Mohamad whose paper on "Classifying vortex wakes using neural networks" is published in and featured by Bioinspiration & Biomimetics! Check out the wonderful video for a quick view!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAttkiMXzag

Classifying vortex wakes using neural networks Classifying vortex wakes using neural networks Authors: Brendan Colvert, Mohamad Alsalman, Eva Kanso Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Feb. 2018 For full paper: ...

Hanliang's paper focusing on the synchronization modes between actuated micro-filaments is online at Journal of Fluid Mechanics! Congrats!
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-fluid-mechanics/article/bistability-in-the-synchronization-of-actuated-microfilaments/70CE0BA7CA5506C79E688A42E105CA62 -information

Bistability in the synchronization of actuated microfilaments | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | Cambridge Core Bistability in the synchronization of actuated microfilaments - Volume 836 - Hanliang Guo, Lisa Fauci, Michael Shelley, Eva Kanso

It's the time of the year again! Our lab presented nine talks and one poster in Denver!

Check out the Viterbi News that features Lionel's work on diving birds!
https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2017/11/making-a-splash/

Making a Splash - USC Viterbi | School of Engineering How a diver’s shape and impact force affect the characteristics of a splash

Explaining fluid-structure interactions to high school students :)

High school students get a firsthand feel for what it’s like to be an engineer USC Viterbi’s Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering opens its doors to support STEM education.

Our work on ciliary flow around squid light organ is featured on today's BPoD - Biomedical Picture of the Day! Take a look!
http://bpod.mrc.ac.uk/archive/2017/10/5

BPoD | Eye Opening BPoD (Biomedical Picture of the Day) is a free educational resource showcasing biomedical imagery. Managed by the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences the website aims to engage the general public. Images are provided for inclusion on this website through the generosity of scientists across the…

Anup presented his research in the 8th annual poster competition of AME. Nicely done!

Our work on cilia and bacteria symbiosis is featured by USC Viterbi!
https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2017/09/cilia-bouncer-bacteria-filtering-enhancing-chemical-communication/

Cilia: “The Bouncer” of Bacteria - USC Viterbi | School of Engineering Paper by USC Viterbi and University of Hawaii faculty elucidates active role of cilia in regulating flow for bacteria filtering and enhancing chemical communication.

Trenton and Patricia, our middle school teachers for this year's Research Experience for Teachers Program (RET), presented their work "Catch That Ball!" today! They spent an extensive five weeks with us to learn coding and image processing. They also developed suitable curriculum for their middle school students using the material they learned in our lab. It was a great pleasure for us to host you!

Lionel's work on diving wedge and its splash is featured on FYFD!
(http://f**kyeahfluiddynamics.tumblr.com/post/162086548567/diving-can-generate-some-remarkable-splashes-here)

For a preview version, see https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.09420

Diving can generate some remarkable splashes. Here... | F**k Yeah Fluid Dynamics

A farewell lunch for Winfried who is returning to Germany. It was nice having you in the lab Winfried!

Cortical activity predicts good variation in human motor output Human movement patterns have been shown to be particularly variable if many combinations of activity in different muscles all achieve the same task goal (i.e., are goal-equivalent). The nervous system

Our group presented 10 oral presentations, 1 poster, and 1 Gallery of Fluid Motion video at this year's DFD meeting!

Congratulations to Yangyang and Hanliang for successfully defending their theses and to Brendan and Try for passing their qualifying exams!

Celebrating two quals and two defenses!

USC - Viterbi School of Engineering - Eva Kanso Awarded $1 Million NSF INSPIRE Grant USC - Viterbi School of Engineering

October 23, 2014.
We hosted an open house to 370 elementary to high school students to teach them about motion in fluids! The kids played with oobleck (cornstarch + water), learned about high-speed imaging and parametrically-excited fluids. Everyone had a blast!