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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

 

Career

  • 2007-date: Senior Research Associate, Universityof Cambridge
  • 2003-2007: Senior Lecturer, Universityof Arizona

Research

My work is  focused in two maint areas  i) topological transitions in Fluid Dynamics  ii) applications of Fluid Dynamics to solutions of living organisms.

The first area is,  and has been for a long time, my main line of research starting with the study of drop pinchin in the late 1990's . The latest work relates to reconnection of Plateau borders and collapse of bounded minimal surfaces in the context of soap films.

The second one connects Fluid Mechanics with Biophysics. In particular the  study of flows produced by swimming organisms and the development of equations of motion to describe the sef-sustained oscillations of long thin filaments.

Selected Publications

  • Antiphase Synchronization in a Flagellar-Dominance Mutant of Chlamydomonas


    Kyriacos C. Leptos, Kirsty Y. Wan, Marco Polin, Idan Tuval, Adriana I. Pesci, and Raymond E. Goldstein
    Physical Review Letters 111, 158101 (2013)
  • Topological Constraints and Their Breakdown in Dynamical Evolution


    Raymond E. Goldstein, H. Keith Moffatt, and Adriana I. Pesci
    Nonlinearity 25, R85-R98 (2012)

Publications

Geometry of catenoidal soap film collapse induced by boundary deformation
RE Goldstein, AI Pesci, C Raufaste, JD Shemilt
– Physical Review E
(2021)
104,
035105
Optimal Design of Multilayer Fog Collectors
M Azeem, A Guérin, T Dumais, L Caminos, RE Goldstein, AI Pesci, J de Dios Rivera, MJ Torres, J Wiener, JL Campos, J Dumais
– ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
(2020)
12,
7736
A Compact Eulerian Representation of Axisymmetric Inviscid Vortex Sheet Dynamics
AI Pesci, RE Goldstein, MJ Shelley
– Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics
(2019)
73,
239
Elastohydrodynamic synchronization of adjacent beating flagella
RE Goldstein, E Lauga, AI Pesci, MRE Proctor
– Phys Rev Fluids
(2016)
1,
073201
Soap-film dynamics and topological transitions under continuous deformation*
HK Moffatt, RE Goldstein, AI Pesci
– Physical Review Fluids
(2016)
1,
060503
Instabilities and Solitons in Minimal Strips.
T Machon, GP Alexander, RE Goldstein, AI Pesci
– Physical review letters
(2016)
117,
017801
Instability of a Möbius strip minimal surface and a link with systolic geometry
AI Pesci, RE Goldstein, GP Alexander, HK Moffatt
– Physical review letters
(2015)
114,
127801
Instability of a gravity current within a soap film
RE Goldstein, HE Huppert, HK Moffatt, AI Pesci
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2014)
753,
R1
Boundary singularities produced by the motion of soap films.
RE Goldstein, J McTavish, HK Moffatt, AI Pesci
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2014)
111,
8339
Antiphase synchronization in a flagellar-dominance mutant of Chlamydomonas.
KC Leptos, KY Wan, M Polin, I Tuval, AI Pesci, RE Goldstein
– Physical review letters
(2013)
111,
158101
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Research Group

Biological Physics and Mechanics

Room

H0.05

Telephone

01223 764954