Although negligible at macroscopic scales, capillary forces become dominant as the sub-
millimetric scales of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) are considered. We review …

The human body interacts with the environment in many different ways. The lungs interact
with the external environment through breathing. The enormously large surface area of the …

Mechanical ventilation applies physical stresses to the tissues of the lung and thus may give
rise to ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI), particular in patients with acute respiratory …

Computational modelling of the lungs is an active field of study that integrates computational
advances with lung biophysics, biomechanics, physiology and medical imaging to promote …

We provide a selective review of recent progress in the analysis of several physiological and
physiologically inspired fluid-structure interaction problems, our aim being to explain the …

We describe how surface-tension-driven instabilities of the lung's liquid lining may lead to
pulmonary airway closure via the formation of liquid bridges that occlude the airway lumen …

We present a black-box method to numerically investigate the linear stability of arbitrary
multi-physics problems. While the user just has to enter the system's residual in weak …

We examine the deformation produced by microdroplets atop thin elastomeric and glassy
free-standing films. Because of the Laplace pressure, the droplets deform the elastic …

Previous linear bifurcation analyses have evidenced that an axially stretched soft cylindrical
tube may develop an infinite-wavelength (localized) instability when one or both of its lateral …

A soft cylindrical interface endowed with surface tension can be unstable to wavy
undulations. This is known as the Plateau–Rayleigh instability (PRI) and for solids the …