Maths Public Lecture - Active and flexible bodies moving with(in) fluids
Event Details
- Date:
- Tuesday, 11 August 2015 - Tuesday, 11 August 2015
- Time:
- 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
- Room:
- 358
- UQ Location:
- Physiology Lecture Theatres (St Lucia)
- URL:
- https://www.smp.uq.edu.au/maths-lecture-11Aug
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Associate Professor Tony Roberts
- Phone:
- N/A
- Email:
- anthony.roberts@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Mathematics and Physics
Event Description
- Full Description:
- This talk will be presented by Professor Michael Shelley, New York University.
Light refreshments will be available from 5:30pm in the foyer.
To attend, please RSVP online: tinyurl.com/11Aug-Lecture-RSVP
About the talk:
We are surrounded by structures that move and interact with a fluid — a flag flaps in a stiff breeze, a bird flies overhead, or a microscopic bacterium swims across a droplet of water. The study of how such immersed bodies interact with fluids has a long and interesting history, and defines a class of “moving boundary problems” that are central to science. What makes such problems especially difficult, and so fascinating for an applied mathematician, is that the dynamics of body and fluid are intimately intertwined and must be treated in an integrated way.
I will discuss fluid-structure interactions ranging from those we can directly see, like flapping flags and flying birds — to those we cannot, such as collective behaviors of swimming microbes and the transport of structures in biological cells. These examples will make clear the absolutely fundamental role that size plays in organizing our understanding.
About the speaker:
Michael J. Shelley is an American applied mathematician who works on the modelling and simulation of complex systems arising in physics and biology. This has included free-boundary problems in fluids and materials science, singularity formation in partial differential equations, modeling visual perception in the primary visual cortex, dynamics of complex and active fluids, cellular biophysics, and fluid-structure interaction problems such as th e flapping of flags, stream-lining in nature, and flapping flight.
His current research interests are in understanding complex phenomena arising in active matter, biophysics, and complex fluids, as well as in intricate fluid-structure problems that arise in understanding swimming and flying.While his own research tools are mathematical modeling, analysis, and simulation, he collaborates very closely with experimentalists working in biology and physics. A large part of this collaboration happens in the Applied Mathematics Laboratory, of which he is a Co-Director and co-founder.
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