Rotational dynamics of a superhelix towed in a Stokes fluid (2007)
Jung, Sunghwan, Mareck, Kathleen, Fauci, Lisa, Shelley, Michael J.
Motivated by the intriguing motility of spirochetes (helically-shaped bacteria that screw through viscous fluids due to the action of internal periplasmic flagella), we examine the fundamental fluid...
Dynamic Patterns and Self-Knotting of a Driven Hanging Chain (2001)
Belmonte, Andrew, Eldakar, Shaden T., Shelley, Michael J., Wiggins, Chris H.
Attracting Manifold for a Viscous Topology Transition (1995)
Goldstein, Raymond E., Pesci, Adriana I., Shelley, Michael J.
An analytical method is developed describing the approach to a finite-time singularity associated with collapse of a narrow fluid layer in an unstable Hele-Shaw flow. Under the separation of time...
The collapse of an axi-symmetric, swirling vortex sheet (1993)
Russel E. Caflisch, Xiaofan Li, Michael J. Shelley
An axi-symmetric and swirling vortex sheet is investigated as the simplest flow in which there is non-trivial vortex stretching and as a possible setting for studying vortex cancellation and...
Orientation selectivity in visual cortex by fluctuation-controlled criticality
Tao, Louis, Cai, David, McLaughlin, David W., Shelley, Michael J., Shapley, Robert
Within a large-scale neuronal network model of macaque primary visual cortex, we examined how intrinsic dynamic fluctuations in synaptic currents modify the effect of strong recurrent excitation on...