Biological Fluid Mechanics

Biological fluid mechanics appears in an exciting and ever-growing range of applications, including locomotion, medicine, ecology, and bioinspired engineering. Despite the breadth of the field, research in biofluids is unified by common challenges in elucidating complex, unsteady flow-structure interactions. This talk will introduce approaches to the formulation and analysis of these problems, with particular emphasis on tradeoffs that are encountered in maintaining fidelity to the biology while achieving generalizable insights regarding the flow physics. Examples of both canonical and frontier topics in biofluid mechanics will be presented in this context. Opportunities for both new and seasoned researchers to make seminal contributions to theory, simulation, and measurements in biological fluid mechanics will be highlighted.