A solid body in a viscous fluid undergoing oscillatory motion naturally produces a steady
secondary flow due to convective inertia. This phenomenon is embodied in the streaming …

Synthetic microswimmers offer models for cell motility and their tunability makes them
promising candidates for biomedical applications. Here, we measure the acoustic …

In Stokes flow, Purcell's scallop theorem forbids objects with time-reversible (reciprocal)
swimming strokes from moving. In the presence of inertia, this restriction is eased and …

In this article, the acoustic radiation force and torque exerted on a small spheroidal particle
immersed in a nonviscous fluid inside an ideal cylindrical chamber is theoretically …

Emulsion droplets trapped in an ultrasonic levitator organize themselves in a way that solid
spheres do not. Rather than coalescing into planar colloidal crystals, monodisperse …

A focused acoustic standing wave creates a Hookean potential well for a small sphere and
can levitate it stably against gravity. Exposing the trapped sphere to a second transverse …

We present here a comprehensive derivation for the speed of a small bottom-heavy sphere
forced by a transverse acoustic field and thereby establish how density inhomogeneities …

Solid particles trapped in an acoustic standing wave have been observed to undergo
propulsion. This phenomenon has been attributed to the generation of a steady streaming …

Abstract Fluid--structure interaction (FSI) occurs widely across physics and biology. In this
thesis, I present four projects in which I investigate systems with elements of FSI analytically …