
PUBLICATIONS

12. Vivek N. Prakash, M. S. Bull and M. Prakash
Motility induced fracture reveals a ductile to brittle crossover in the epithelial tissues of a simple animal
Nature Physics (accepted, in press) (2020)
Organismal Biophysics

11. W. Gilpin, Vivek N. Prakash, and M. Prakash
Rapid behavioral transitions produce chaotic mixing by a planktonic microswimmer
(under preparation) (2020)

10. W. Gilpin, Vivek N. Prakash, and M. Prakash
Dynamic vortex arrays created by starfish larvae
Physical Review Fluids, 2, 090501 (2017)

9. W. Gilpin, Vivek N. Prakash, and M. Prakash
Flowtrace: simple visualization of coherent structures in biological fluid flows
Journal of Experimental Biology, 220, 3411-3418 (2017)
Download Flowtrace here: www.flowtrace.org
Cover of Journal of Experimental Biology (Volume 220, 2017) [web link]

8. W. Gilpin, Vivek N. Prakash, and M. Prakash
Vortex arrays and entangled cilia underly the feeding vs. swimming tradeoff in sea star larvae
Nature Physics, 13, 380-386 (2017)
- News & Views: V. I. Fernandez & R. Stocker, Hydrodynamics: Modus vivendi, Nature Physics (2016) [web link]
- APS/DFD ‘Milton van Dyke Award’ (Video) - 2016 [web link]
- ‘First place’, Nikon Small World in Motion Competition - 2016 [web link]
- ‘Image of distinction’, Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition - 2016 [web link]
- Media: Stanford News, New York Times, Nature News, Phys.org, Live Science, Science Daily, EurekAlert, Futurity, Popular Science, Business Insider, Daily mail, CBS News, Smithsonian, Vox, FYFD
Experimental Fluid Mechanics:
Multi-phase Turbulent Flows
7. Vivek N. Prakash, J. M. Mercado, L. van Wijngaarden, E. Mancilla, Y. Tagawa, D. Lohse, and C. Sun
Energy spectra in turbulent bubbly flows
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 791, 174-190 (2016)
6. V. Mathai, Vivek N. Prakash, J. Brons, C. Sun and D. Lohse
Wake-driven dynamics of finite-sized buoyant spheres in turbulence
Physical Review Letters, 115, 124501 (2015)
5. Y. Tagawa, I. Roghair, Vivek N. Prakash, M. van Sint Annaland, H. Kuipers, C. Sun, and D. Lohse
The clustering morphology of freely rising deformable bubbles
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 721, R2 (2013)
4. Vivek N. Prakash, Y. Tagawa, E. Calzavarini, J. M. Mercado, F. Toschi, D. Lohse, and C. Sun
How gravity and size affect the acceleration statistics of bubbles in turbulence
New Journal of Physics, 14, 105017, (2012)
- New Journal of Physics ‘Research Highlights’ collection - 2012, 2013 [web link]
- New Journal of Physics focus issue on ‘Dynamics of Particles in Turbulence’ [web link]
- New Journal of Physics Video Abstract Prize - 2013 [web link]
3. J. M. Mercado*, Vivek N. Prakash*, Y. Tagawa, C. Sun, and D. Lohse
Lagrangian statistics of light particles in Turbulence
Physics of Fluids, 24, 055106 (2012)
[web link] [PDF] (*Equal authorship)
2. Y. Tagawa, J. M. Mercado, Vivek N. Prakash, E. Calzavarini, C. Sun, and D. Lohse
Three-dimensional Lagrangian Voronoi analysis for clustering of particles and bubbles in turbulence
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 693, 201-215 (2012)
1. Vivek N. Prakash, K. R. Sreenivas, and J. H. Arakeri
The role of viscosity contrast on plume structure in laboratory modeling of mantle convection
Chemical Engineering Science, 158, 245-256 (2017)