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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

Topology transitions and singularities in viscous flows.
RE Goldstein, AI Pesci, MJ Shelley
– Physical Review Letters
(1993)
70,
3043
TOPOLOGICAL TRANSITIONS IN HELE-SHAW FLOW
MJ SHELLEY, RE GOLDSTEIN, AI PESCI
– SINGULARITIES IN FLUIDS, PLASMAS, AND OPTICS
(1993)
404,
167
Geometrical and topological aspects of electric double layers near curved surfaces
B Duplantier, RE Goldstein, V Romero-Rochn, AI Pesci
– Physical review letters
(1990)
65,
508
Electric double layers near modulated surfaces
RE Goldstein, AI Pesci, V Romero-Rochn
– Physical review. A, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
(1990)
41,
5504
Lattice theory of polymer blends and liquid mixtures: Beyond the Flory-Huggins approximation
AI PESCI, KF FREED
– The Journal of Chemical Physics
(1989)
90,
2017
LATTICE MODELS OF POLYMER FLUIDS - MONOMERS OCCUPYING SEVERAL LATTICE SITES .2. INTERACTION ENERGIES
AI PESCI, KF FREED
– The Journal of Chemical Physics
(1989)
90,
2003
Theory of the molecular origins of the entropic portion of the Flory χ parameter for polymer blends
KF FREED, AI PESCI
– The Journal of Chemical Physics
(1987)
87,
7342
Polymers and the anisotropic coupled random walk model
AI PESCI
– Physics Letters A
(1985)
112,
49
DYNAMICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYMER-SOLUTIONS AND PERTURBATION-THEORY NEAR 4 DIMENSIONS
JL ALESSANDRINI, AI PESCI
– Physical Review A
(1984)
30,
532
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Research Group

Biological Physics and Mechanics

Room

H0.05

Telephone

01223 764954