Professors Alexander Smits (Princeton) and Hilary Bart-Smith (University of Virginia) decided to arrange a competition between their students to see who could design the best manta ray inspired robot. Mohammad Javed '11, a mechanical engineering major, took on the project as a senior thesis and represented Princeton.
- Professors Alexander Smits (Princeton) and Hilary Bart-Smith (University of Virginia) decided to arrange a competition between their students to see who could design the best manta ray inspired robot. Mohammad Javed '11, a mechanical engineering major, took on the project as a senior thesis and represented Princeton.
- Princeton University graduate students Giada Damen, Marcus Hultmark, Noam Lupu and Silviu Pufu have been named as co-winners of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton's top honor for graduate students.
- Secondary motions downstream of pipe curvatures are widely studied for low and moderate Reynolds numbers, where the secondary flows are driven by the centrifugal pressure gradient.
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Swimming like butterflies underwater, with mesmerizing ease and grace, manta rays are the envy of engineers seeking more efficient underwater vehicles.
