Flexible slender structures are ubiquitous in biological systems and engineering
applications. Fluid-structure interaction (FSI) plays a key role in the dynamics of such …

Recently, energy harvesting through periodic snapping, namely snap-through, has gained
significant attention for energy harvesting applications. In this study, the snapping dynamics …

Cataract scatters the light as it enters the eye, blurs images and severely interferes people's
daily activities. The only effective therapy is cataract surgery, in which the clouded lens is …

Recent studies on the snap-through motion of elastic sheets have attracted intense interest
in energy-harvesting applications. However, the effect of boundary conditions (BCs) on …

Myriads of cilia beat on ciliated epithelia, which are ubiquitous in life. When ciliary beats are
synchronized, metachronal waves emerge, whose direction of propagation depends on the …

Cilia are micro-scale hair-like organelles. They can exhibit self-sustained oscillations which
play crucial roles in flow transport or locomotion. Recent studies have shown that these …

Energy harvesting through periodic snap-through of a buckled sheet has recently gained
considerable attention because of its potential applications in energy harvesting in low …

This study presents a dual-channel vortex generator (VG) that leverages the snap-through
behaviour of flexible sheets. The VG outperforms a similar-sized rigid VG in generating …

During cataract surgery the clouded lens is broken up by phacoemulsification. The iris can
become highly mobile and could be entrained by the phacoemulsification probe, under a …

Cataract is clouding of the crystalline lens of an eye that prevents the light from reaching the
retina, and hence impedes clear visual vision and heavily affects people's daily life. It is the …