Description: Professional web page of Gwennou Coupier, physicist at CNRS. Main topic of interest: capillary blood flow, artificial microswimmers, dynamics of elastic shells, microfluidics.
blood (464) laos (283) microfluidics (68) microcirculation (11) buckling (5) vesicles (1) elastic instabilities (1)
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Buckling of elastic structures is a versatile way of producing fluid motion
(Movie by M.Mokbel) I am interested in the controlled use of hollow shells to generate small-scale flows for applications such as mixing, or the propulsion and control of immersed microrobots. The key-mechanism is the buckling trigerred by an acoustic wave.