GALCIT Colloquium

The fundamental mechanisms governing transport and transmission of and contamination by most pathogens/organisms remain poorly understood for many reasons: This class of problems involves complex fluids, multiscale processes, and subtle fluid-organism coupling.  Moreover, on the fundamental side, one common feature of many of the physical and physiological processes shaping  organism/pathogen transport is unsteadiness. Combining insights gained from our joint experimental and theoretical studies, we will highlight how unsteadiness can shape the dynamics of instabilities, fragmentation, and mixing, relevant for this class of problems and more.