EPFL collaboration selected for APS-DFD Video Award
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The Gallery of Fluid Motion, organized at the 76th annual meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS-DFD), presented one of three Video Awards to a work created by two laboratories in the School of Engineering.
Auke Ijspeert’s Biorobotics Laboratory (BioRob) and Karen Mulleners’ Unsteady Flow Diagnostics Laboratory (UNFoLD) collaborated on the video, entitled “To swim fast or go far? Answers from 1-guilla, the robotic eel.” It was based on research recently published in Nature Scientific Reports, and conducted with the supportof the STI eSeed program. The main author, UNFoLD doctoral assistant Alexandros Anastasiadis – a recent graduate of the courseVideomaking for Science Communication –, was assisted by EPFL Excellence in Engineering Program (E3) summer intern Annalisa Rossi in making the movie. This highlights the intensive research training opportunities offered by the E3 program.
The STI video was selected as one of three Video Award winners at the The Gallery of Fluid Motion. Six movies in total received an award this year, from a total of close to 90 submissions. The Gallery of Fluid Motion is intended to be a visual record of the aesthetic and science of contemporary fluid mechanics, to be shared both with fellow researchers and the general public. Each year, the submissions are judged for their combination of striking visual qualities and scientific interest, and the top-ranked video and poster entries are designated as Milton Van Dyke Awardees or Gallery Winners, which are subsequently published in APS' journal Physical Review Fluids.
The UNFoLD lab was also awarded last year for their project, “Reconfiguring it out: How flexible structures interact with fluid flows”.