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Journal articles
- N. Shen and L. Bourouiba, (2025). “Assessing bias in SIR estimation from aggregated epidemic data”, Journal of The Royal Society Open Science, 12, 240526. doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240526
- S. Mishra, P. R. Singh, X. Hu, R. Jahn, L. Geurts, N. Shen, M. A. DeJesus, T. Hartman, A. Jinich, K. Rhee, M. Zimmerman, V. Dartois, R. M. Jones, X. Jiang, L. Lopez-Quezada, R. Almada, L. Bourouiba and C. Nathan, (2025). “Genes required by Mycobacterium tuberculosis to survive transmission”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122, e2425981122. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2425981122.
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- N. Shen, Y. Kulkarni, T. Jamin, S. Popinet, S. Zaleski and L. Bourouiba, (2025). “Fragmentation from inertial detachment of a sessile droplet: implications for pathogen transport”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1002, A6. doi:10.1017/jfm.2024.874.
- D. I. Pullin and N. Shen, (2023). “On vortex-sheet evolution beyond singularity formation”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 976, A17. doi:10.1017/jfm.2023.880.
- N. Shen and L. Bourouiba, (2023). “On the role of unsteadiness in impulsive-flow-driven shear instabilities: precursors of fragmentation”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 973, A28. doi:10.1017/jfm.2023.722.
- N. Shen, D. Chakraborty, and J. E. Sader, (2023). “Frequency response of cantilevered plates of small aspect ratio immersed in viscous fluids”, Journal of Applied Physics, 133, 034501. doi: 10.1063/5.0120736.
- N. Shen, D. I. Pullin, V. Wheatey and R. Samtaney, (2021). “Evolution of a shock generated by an impulsively accelerated, sinusoidal piston”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 907, A35. doi: 10.1017/jfm.2020.775.
- N. Shen, D. I. Pullin, V. Wheatey and R. Samtaney, (2020). “Magnetohydrodynamic Richtmyer-Meshkov instability under an arbitrarily oriented magnetic field”, Physics of Plasmas, 27, 062101. doi: 10.1063/1.5142042.
- G. Pfusterschmied, C. Weinmann, M. Schneider, D. Platz, N. Shen, J. E. Sader, and U. Schmid, (2020). “Sound dissipation from plate-type resonators excited in non-conventional transversal modes in liquids”, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 30, 075004. doi: 10.1088/1361-6439/ab8bc9.
- N. Shen, D. I. Pullin, V. Wheatey and R. Samtaney, (2019). “Impulse-driven Richtmyer- Meshkov Instability in Hall-magnetohydrodynamics”, Physical Review Fluids, 4, 103902. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.4.103902.
- N. Shen, Y. Li, D. I. Pullin, R. Samtaney, and V. Wheatley, (2018). “On the magnetohydro- dynamic limits of the ideal two-fluid plasma equations”, Physics of Plasmas, 25, 122113. doi: 10.1063/1.5067387.
- N. Shen, D. Chakraborty, and J. E. Sader, (2016). “Resonant frequencies of cantilevered sheets under various clamping configurations immersed in fluid”, Journal of Applied Physics, 120, 144504. doi: 10.1063/1.4964428.
Conferences
Talks
- N. Shen, R. Dandekar, B. Naar and L. Bourouiba, “Splash on a liquid pool: coupled cavity-sheet unsteady dynamics”. To be presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics, Salt Lake City, USA, (2024, Nov).
- D. I. Pullin and N. Shen, “Do vortex sheets roll up?”. Presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics, Washington DC, USA, (2023, Nov).
- N. Shen, Y. Kulkarni, T. Jamin, S. Popinet, S. Zaleski and L. Bourouiba, “Fragmentation from inertial detachment of a sessile droplet: implications for pathogen transport”. Presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics, Washington DC, USA, (2023, Nov).
- N. Shen, and L. Bourouiba, “Role of unsteadiness in shear instability: exhalation flow analogy”. Presented at the 75th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics, Indianapolis, USA, (2022, Nov).
- D. I. Pullin, N. Shen, R. Samtaney, and V. Wheatley, “Evolution of perturbed planar shock waves”. Presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics, Seattle, USA, (2019, Nov).
- N. Shen, D. I. Pullin, R. Samtaney, V. Wheatley, “Impulse-driven Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability in Hall-magnetohydrodynamics”. Presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics, Seattle, USA (2019, Nov).
- N. Shen, D. I. Pullin, R. Samtaney, and V. Wheatley, “Vorticity production and transport in plasma and magnetohydrodynamic Richtmyer-Meshkov flows”. Presented at the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 2019 Symposium on Vortex Dynamics, San Diego, USA (2019, Jun).
- N. Shen, Y. Li, D. I. Pullin, R. Samtaney, V. Wheatley, “On the ideal two-fluid plasma equations and magnetohydrodynamics”. Presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics, Atlanta, USA (2018, Nov).
Posters
- N. Shen, and L. Bourouiba, “SIR estimation for aggregated epidemic curve”, Presented at the Gordon Research Conference: Fluids in Disease Transmission and Contamination, South Hadley, USA, (2022, Aug)
- N. Shen, and L. Bourouiba, “Impulsive exhalation flows and how its unsteadiness shapes shear instability”, Presented at the Gordon Research Conference: Fluids in Disease Transmission and Contamination, South Hadley, USA, (2022, Aug)
