Two lovely, and quite distinct papers were published recently,  The first –  with our former PhD student Jorn Cheney, and Jeremy Rehm, is on the way bats use the muscles in their wings to control wing camber during flight. This paper appeared a couple of weeks ago in the Journal of Experimental Biology. The paper received a special “Inside JEB” article

 

The second paper,  with our present and former lab members: Howon Lee, Nick Simone, Yuanhang Zhu, Yunxing Su, Bernardo Ribeiros, and Jen Franck – appeared this week in Physical Review Fluids, and is on the trajectory of vortices shed behind an energy harvesting hydrofoil and combines experiments, theory and our first foray into Machine Learning.  Its worth noting that Howon and Nick performed this research as undergraduates in the lab

Congratulations to both research collaborations!!