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1. Blood flow and wall shear stress in arteries (atherosclerosis)

• Coronary arteries (tubes of time-dependant curvature)

• Bypass grafts

• Dynamics of endothelial cells

2. Flow and oscillations in collapsible tubes (blood vessels, airways and urethra)

• 1-D, 2-D and 3-D models: coupled solutions of Navier-Stokes and shell equations.

• Laboratory experiments

• Giraffe jugular vein

3. Pulmonary fluid dynamics

• Gas flow and mixing in the airways at high frequency

• Surface tension and surfactant effects

4. Coupling of hydrodynamics and muscle mechanics

• Peristaltic pumping in the ureter

• Fish swimming

5. Hydrodynamic phenomena in populations of swimming micro-organisms

• Bioconvection (algae and bacteria)

• Chemotaxis in flow fields

• Plankton and turbulence in the ocean

6. Insect flight

• Unsteady, 3-D aerodynamics (with C.P.Ellington, Zoology)

7. Osmosis across micro-porous membranes

• Molecular dynamics simulations (with A.E.Hill, Physiology)