(Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars underlined)

2009

Peng J, Colin SP, Costello JH, Dabiri JO (2009) “A physical model of prey transport in feeding currents generated by predator medusae,” submitted.

Dabiri JO, Colin SP, Katija K, Costello JH (2009) “A wake-based correlate of swimming performance and foraging behavior in seven co-occurring jellyfish species,” submitted.

Feitl KE, Millett AH, Colin SP, Dabiri JO, Costello JH (2009) “Functional morphology and fluid interactions during early development of scyphomedusae,” submitted.

O'Farrell C, Dabiri JO (2009) “A Lagrangian approach to identifying vortex pinch-off,” Chaos, to appear.

Peng J, Dabiri JO (2009) “Estimation of unsteady hydrodynamic forces using Lagrangian Coherent Structures,” In Animal Locomotion: Hydrodynamics of Swimming and Physics of Flying (Springer-Verlag), to appear.

Rosenfeld M, Katija K, Dabiri JO (2009) “Circulation generation and vortex ring formation by static conic nozzles,” Journal of Fluids Engineering, to appear.

Katija K, Dabiri JO (2009) “A viscosity-enhanced mechanism for biogenic ocean mixing,” Nature, to appear.

Wilson M, Peng J, Dabiri JO, Eldredge JD (2009) “Lagrangian coherent structures in low Reynolds number swimming,” Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 21: 204105. [PDF]

Peng J, Dabiri JO (2009) “Transport of inertial particles by Lagrangian coherent structures: application to predator-prey interactions in jellyfish feeding,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics 623: 75-84. [PDF]

Dabiri JO (2009) “Optimal vortex formation as a unifying principle in biological propulsion,” Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 41: 17-33. [PDF]

2008

Costello JH, Colin SP, Dabiri JO (2008) “The medusan morphospace: phylogenetic constraints, biomechanical solutions and ecological consequences,” Invertebrate Biology 127 (3): 265-290. [PDF]

Peng J, Dabiri JO (2008) “The 'upstream wake' of swimming and flying animals and its correlation with propulsive efficiency,” Journal of Experimental Biology 211 (16): 2669-2677. [PDF][Movies]

Katija K, Dabiri JO (2008) “In situ field measurements of aquatic animal-fluid interactions using a self-contained underwater velocimetry apparatus (SCUVA),” Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 6: 162-171. [PDF]

Peng J, Dabiri JO (2008) “An overview of a Lagrangian method for analysis of animal wake dynamics,” Journal of Experimental Biology 211 (2): 280-287. [PDF]

2007

Shadden SC, Katija K, Rosenfeld M, Marsden JE, Dabiri JO (2007) “Transport and stirring induced by vortex formation,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics 593: 315-331. [PDF]

Franco E, Pekarek DN, Peng J, Dabiri JO (2007) “Geometry of unsteady fluid transport during fluid-structure interactions,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics 589: 125-145. [PDF]

Dabiri JO (2007) “Renewable fluid dynamic energy derived from aquatic animal locomotion,” Bioinspiration and Biomimetics 2: L1-L3. [PDF]

Peng J, Dabiri JO (2007) “A potential-flow, deformable-body model for fluid-structure interactions with compact vorticity: application to animal swimming measurements,” Experiments in Fluids 43 (5): 655-664. [PDF]

Dabiri JO, Colin SP, Costello JH (2007) “Morphological diversity of medusan lineages constrained by animal-fluid interactions,” Journal of Experimental Biology 210 (11): 1868-1873. [PDF]

Peng J, Dabiri JO, Madden PG, Lauder GV (2007) “Non-invasive measurement of instantaneous forces during aquatic locomotion: A case study of the bluegill sunfish pectoral fin,” Journal of Experimental Biology 210 (4): 685-698. [PDF]

2006

Dabiri JO, Colin SP, Costello JH (2006) “Fast-swimming hydromedusae exploit velar kinematics to form an optimal vortex wake,” Journal of Experimental Biology 209 (11): 2025-2033. [PDF]

Shadden SC, Dabiri JO, Marsden JE (2006) “Lagrangian analysis of fluid transport in empirical vortex ring flows,” Physics of Fluids 18 (4): 047105. [PDF]

Dabiri JO (2006) “Note on the induced Lagrangian drift and added-mass of a vortex,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics 547: 105-113. [PDF]

Gharib M, Rambod E, Kheradvar A, Sahn DJ, Dabiri JO (2006) “Optimal vortex formation as an index of cardiac health,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 103 (16): 6305-6308. [PDF]

Krueger PS, Dabiri JO, Gharib M (2006) “The formation number of vortex rings formed in uniform background co-flow,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics 556: 147-166. [PDF]

Shusser M, Rosenfeld M, Dabiri JO, Gharib M (2006) “Effect of time-dependent piston velocity program on vortex ring formation in a piston/cylinder arrangement,” Physics of Fluids 18 (3): 033601. [PDF]

2005

Dabiri JO (2005) “On the estimation of swimming and flying forces from wake measurements,” Journal of Experimental Biology 208 (18): 3519-3532. [PDF]

Dabiri JO, Colin SP, Costello JH, Gharib M (2005) “Vortex motion in the ocean: in situ visualization of jellyfish swimming and feeding flows,” Physics of Fluids 17 (9): 091108. [PDF]

Dabiri JO, Gharib M (2005) “The role of optimal vortex formation in biological fluid transport,” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 272: 1557-1560. [PDF]

Dabiri JO, Gharib M (2005) “Starting flow through nozzles with temporally variable exit diameter,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics 538: 111-136. [PDF]

Dabiri JO, Colin SP, Costello JH, Gharib M (2005) “Flow patterns generated by oblate medusan jellyfish: field measurements and laboratory analyses,” Journal of Experimental Biology 208 (7): 1257-1265. [PDF]

2004

Dabiri JO, Gharib M (2004) “Fluid entrainment by isolated vortex rings,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics 511: 311-331. [PDF]

Dabiri JO, Gharib M (2004) “A revised slug model boundary layer correction for starting jet vorticity flux,” Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics 17 (4): 293-295. [PDF]

Dabiri JO, Gharib M (2004) “Delay of vortex ring pinch-off by an imposed bulk counter-flow,” Physics of Fluids 16 (4): L28-L30. [PDF]

2003

Dabiri JO, Gharib M (2003) “Sensitivity analysis of kinematic approximations in dynamic medusan swimming models,” Journal of Experimental Biology 206 (20): 3675-3680. [PDF]

Krueger PS, Dabiri JO, Gharib M (2003)“The formation number of vortex rings formed in the presence of uniform background co-flow,” Physics of Fluids 15 (7): L49-L52. [PDF]