Microfluidic devices manufactured from soft polymeric materials have emerged as a
paradigm for cheap, disposable and easy-to-prototype fluidic platforms for integrating …

Laminar flow in devices fabricated from soft materials causes deformation of the passage
geometry, which affects the flow rate–pressure drop relation. For a given pressure drop, in …

Pressurization of gas within embedded channels and cavities is a popular method for
actuating soft robots. Various previous works examined the effects of internal fluid …

We study the spreading of viscous fluid injected under an elastic sheet, which is driven by
gravity and by elastic bending and tension forces and resisted by viscous forces. The …

A flow vessel with an elastic wall can deform significantly due to viscous fluid flow within it,
even at vanishing Reynolds number (no fluid inertia). Deformation leads to an enhancement …

Microfluidic systems are usually fabricated with soft materials that deform due to the fluid
stresses. Recent experimental and theoretical studies on the steady flow in shallow …

Understanding vascular adaptation, namely what drives veins to shrink or grow, is key for
the self-organization of flow networks and their optimization. From the top–down principle of …

We develop a theory of fluid-structure interaction (FSI) between an oscillatory Newtonian
fluid flow and a compliant conduit. We consider the canonical geometries of a two …

An elastic sheet that deforms near a solid substrate in a viscous fluid is a situation relevant to
various dynamical processes in biology, geophysics, and engineering. Here, we study the …

The research fields of microfluidics and soft robotics both involve complex small-scale
internal channel networks, embedded within a solid structure. This study examines …