Emily is a senior from Houston, TX, double majoring in mechanical engineering and physics. She is the project manager of the Duke Smart Home and an officer and a founding member of the Duke Women’s Wrestling Club. Outside of Duke, Emily enjoys songwriting and training various martial arts.
Emily has been researching nonlinear fluid dynamics in experiments on Faraday wave patterns and walking droplets in the context of hydrodynamic quantum analogs. She uses a subwoofer to vibrate a bath of silicon oil with experiment-specific container topography and documents dynamical behavior of interest. Forced at specific frequency, drops placed on the bath will create a local bifurcation and become self-propelled by their own wave-field in a way that is dynamically similar to pilot-wave quantum phenomena.
Research Interests
Emily has been researching nonlinear fluid dynamics in experiments on Faraday wave patterns and walking droplets in the context of hydrodynamic quantum analogs. She uses a subwoofer to vibrate a bath of silicon oil with experiment-specific container topography and documents dynamical behavior of interest. Forced at specific frequency, drops placed on the bath will create a local bifurcation and become self-propelled by their own wave-field in a way that is dynamically similar to pilot-wave quantum phenomena.