Upside-down jellyfish, Cassiopea, are prevalent in warm and shallow parts of the oceans
throughout the world. They are unique among jellyfish in that they rest upside down against …

Recent advances in computational methods have made realistic large-scale simulations of
animal locomotion possible. This has resulted in numerous mathematical and computational …

Mathematical and experimental studies of the flows generated by jellyfish have focused
primarily on mechanisms of swimming. More recent work has also considered the fluid …

Water mixing is a critical mechanism in marine habitats that governs many important
processes, including nutrient transport. Physical mechanisms, such as winds or tides, are …

In this paper, we present an open-source software library that can be used to numerically
simulate the advection and diffusion of a chemical concentration or heat density in a viscous …

Effective methods of fluid transport vary across scale. A commonly used dimensionless
number for quantifying the effective scale of fluid transport is the Reynolds number, Re …

While many organisms filter feed and exchange heat or nutrients in flow, few benthic
organisms also actively pulse to enhance feeding and exchange. One example is the …

Upside-down jellyfish, Cassiopea sp., can be locally abundant in shallow mangrove habitats
throughout the tropics and subtropics. Unlike other jellyfish, Cassiopea sp. are epibenthic …

We explore the velocity fluctuations in a fluid due to a dilute suspension of randomly
distributed vortex rings at moderate Reynolds number, for instance, those generated by a …