• Giant ripples on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko sculpted by sunset thermal wind

  Pan Jia, Bruno Andreotti, and Philippe Claudin, PNAS (2017) Abstract : Explaining the unexpected presence of dune-like patterns at the surface of the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko requires conceptual and quantitative advances in the (...)

  
  

• Bioinspired turbine blades offer new perspectives for wind energy

  V. Cognet, S. Courrech du Pont, I. Dobrev, F. Massouh, B. Thiria ; Proc. Roy. Soc. A, 473, (2017) Wind energy is becoming a significant alternative solution for future energy production. Modern turbines now benefit from engineering (...)

  
  
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  Synchronisation and collective swimming patterns in Hemigrammus bleheri

  I. Ashraf, R. Godoy-Diana, J. Halloy, B. Collignon, B. Thiria Journal of the Royal Society Interface 13 20160734 (2016) In this work, we address the case of red nose tetra fish Hemigrammus bleheri swimming in groups in a uniform flow, giving (...)

  
  

• Texture-driven elastohydrodynamic bouncing

  Thibault Chastel, Philippe Gondret and Anne Mongruel : Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Volume 805 October 2016, pp. 577-590 We investigate in detail the dynamics of bouncing of a fluid-immersed solid sphere onto a textured wall at moderate Reynolds (...)

  
  
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  Does aquatic foraging impact head shape evolution in snakes ?

  M. Segall, R. Cornette, A.-C. Fabre, R. Godoy-Diana, A. Herrel ; Proc. R. Soc. B, 283, 20161645, (2016) Evolutionary trajectories are often biased by developmental and historical factors. However, environmental factors can also impose (...)

  
  

• Faraday wave lattice as an elastic metamaterial

  L. Domino, M. Tarpin, S. Patinet, and A. Eddi ; Phys. Rev. E 93, 050202(R), (2016) Metamaterials enable the emergence of novel physical properties due to the existence of an underlying subwavelength structure. Here, we use the Faraday (...)

  
  

• Effect of friction on the peeling test at zero-degrees

  S. Ponce, J. Bico, B. Roman ; Soft Matter, 11, 9281-9290, (2015) We describe the peeling of an elastomeric strip adhering to a glass plate through van der Waals interactions in the limit of a zero peeling angle. In contrast to classical studies (...)

  
  

• Water impacting on superhydrophobic macrotextures

  Anaïs Gauthier, Sean Symon, Christophe Clanet, David Quéré ; Nature Comm., 6, 8001, (2015) It has been recently shown that the presence of macrotextures on superhydrophobic materials can markedly modify the dynamics of water impacting them, and (...)

  
  

• Turning bacterial suspensions into a "superfluid"

  H.M. Lopez, J. Gachelin, C. Douarche, H.Auradou, E. Clément ; Phys. Rev. Lett., 115, 28301, (2015) The rheological response under simple shear of an active suspension of Escherichia coli is determined in a large range of shear rates and (...)

  
  

• Droplets move over viscoelastic substrates by surfing a ridge

  Karpitschka S., Das S., van Gorcum M., Perrin H., Andreotti B. & Snoeijer J.H., Nature Comm., 6, 7891, (2015) Liquid drops on soft solids generate strong deformations below the contact line, resulting from a balance of capillary and elastic (...)

  
  

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