Broadcast spawning invertebrates that live in shallow, high-energy coastal habitats are subjected to oscillatory water motion that creates unsteady flow fields above the surface of animals. The frequency of the oscillatory fluctuations is driven by the wave period, which will influence the stability of local flow structures and may affect fertilization processes. Using an oscillatory water tunn...

Heat or mass transfer from spherical particles in oscillatory flow has important applications in combustion and spray drying. This work provides a parametric investigation of drag forces experienced by, and transport of a passive scalar from, an isolated rigid fixed sphere in steady and oscillatory axisymmetric flows. At Schmidt ~Prandtl! number of 1, oscillatory flows with Reynolds numbers in ...

Osteocytes in vivo experience complex fluid shear flow patterns to activate mechanotransduction pathways. The actin and microtubule (MT) cytoskeletons have been shown to play an important role in the osteocyte's biochemical response to fluid shear loading. The dynamic nature of physiologically relevant fluid flow profiles (i.e., 1Hz oscillatory flow) impedes the ability to image and study both ...

Steady laminar flow in the straight parts of the arterial tree is atheroprotective, whereas disturbed flow with oscillation in branch points and the aortic root are athero-prone, in part, because of the distinct roles of the flow patterns in regulating the cell cycle of vascular endothelial cells (ECs). To elucidate the molecular basis underlying the endothelial cell cycle regulated by distinct...

In vertebrates, heart pumping is required for cardiac morphogenesis and altering myocardial contractility leads to abnormal intracardiac flow forces and valve defects. Among the different mechanical cues generated in the developing heart, oscillatory flow has been proposed to be an essential factor in instructing endocardial cell fate toward valvulogenesis and leads to the expression of klf2a, ...