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What Can Jellyfish Teach Us About Fluid Dynamics?

Jun 28, 2023

43:42

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John Dabiri

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Using Fish Schooling to Improve Wind Farm Performance

01:20

The breadth of interest in engineering wind farms, medical aspects, and math

01:32

Introduction

2min

How Jellyfish Move Around the Ocean

2min

The Effects of Jellyfish on Swimming

2min

The Role of Circular Vortex Rings in Swimming

2min

The Evolution of the Jellyfish

3min

The Limits of Jellyfish in Evolution

2min

How Jellyfish Are Using Vortex Rings to Contract Their Belt

4min

The Behavior of the Jellyfish

2min

The Unsolved Mystery of Future Submarine Design

2min

10.

The Different Types of Vortex Rings in the Animal Kingdom

4min

11.

The Challenges of Wind Turbines in California

4min

12.

How to Design a Fish-Inspired Wind Farm

2min

13.

The Lower Visual Impact of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

2min

14.

The Benefits of Potential Flow Theory for Wind Turbines

3min

15.

The Importance of Moving Freely Between Engineering and Science

3min

16.

The Role of Fluid Dynamics in the Progression of Wildfires

2min

17.

The Unsolved Problem of Turbulence

4min

Jellyfish and other aquatic creatures embody solutions to diverse problems in engineering, medicine and mathematics. John Dabiri, a fluid dynamics expert, talks with Steven Strogatz about what jellyfish can teach us about going with the flow.

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