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Anne Staples

Associate Professor | Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics
  • Co-Director | BIOTRANS

Lab Website: Laboratory for Fluid Dynamics in Nature
Publications: Google Scholar

The research at the Laboratory for Fluid Dynamics in Nature (FINLAB) is focused on two main themes: fluid flows in nature and advanced computational methods for fluid flows. The natural systems studied in the FINLAB range from insect respiratory flows, which occur at the microscale, to human cardiovascular flows and other biomedically relevant flows, to planetary atmospheric flows with length scales on the order of tens of kilometers. There is an emphasis on bioinspiration, on advanced computational methods, including machine learning, on algorithms, and on experimental validation.

Biomechanics | Fluid Mechanics | Fluid Flows in Nature | Computational Fluid Dynamics | Medical Fluid Dynamics | Bioinspired Engineering | Experimental Microfluidics | Machine Learning