Publications by Mrudhula Baskaran

Highly agile flat swimming robot

Herbert Shea, Karen Ann J Mulleners, Mrudhula Baskaran

Navigating and exploring the surfaces of bodies of water allow swimming robots to perform a range of measurements while efficiently communicating and harvesting energy from the Sun. Such environments are often highly unstructured and cluttered with plant m ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2025

Drag reduction of flexible disks through vortex ring manipulation

Mrudhula Baskaran

Extreme weather events are increasing in frequency in recent years due to global climate change. These events damage infrastructure and pose an open challenge to engineers to design more weather-resistant infrastructure. As engineers, we turn to nature fo ...

EPFL2024

Reconfiguring it out: How flexible structures interact with fluid flows

Karen Ann J Mulleners, Mrudhula Baskaran

Amer Physical Soc2023

Lagrangian analysis of bio-inspired vortex ring formation

Karen Ann J Mulleners, Mrudhula Baskaran

Pulsatile jet propulsion is a highly energy-efficient swimming mode used by various species of aquatic animals that continues to inspire engineers of underwater vehicles. Here, we present a bio-inspired jet propulsor that combines the flexible hull of a je ...

2022

CO2-Driven diffusiophoresis and water cleaning: similarity solutions for predicting the exclusion zone in a channel flow

Mrudhula Baskaran

We investigate experimentally and theoretically diffusiophoretic separation of negatively charged particles in a rectangular channel flow, driven by CO2 dissolution from one side-wall. Since the negatively charged particles create an exclusion zone near th ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021