Interactions between ocean waves and sea-ice are extremely complex. The interactions are essential to understanding sea-ice morphology, especially in the context of global warming [3].
Fluid motion is vital to the function of healthy plants. For example, transpiration causes water to be drawn upwards from root to leaf through the conducting elements of the xylem, and pressure-driven flow carries the products of photosynthesis through the phloem.
Fluid-conveying elastic-walled tubes arise in many engineering and biomechanical systems. Examples include blood flow in veins and arteries, flow in the airways, and industrial fluid transport and pumping systems.
When a sea wave travels from deeper into shallower coastal, it tends to steepen and overturn as a breaking wave. A breaking wave can exert damaging forces on a structure in its path.
The project aims to study the fluid mechanical properties of superfluids in the presence of topological defects (vortices) and immersed objects (external confining potentials, impurities).