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Title: Computational Biophysics of Organisms and Organs

Speaker: Neelesh Patankar, Northwestern University, Mechanical Engineering

Abstract: New numerical algorithms for the movement of immersed solid bodies in fluids have been developed in our group. We have applied these techniques to study variety of problems. This talk will focus on two problems. The first involves application at organism-level to understand aquatic locomotion. The second involves application at organ-level to understand esophageal transport. In the first problem, some of our key results pertaining to the role of hydrodynamics in the evolution of fish form and function with application to robotics will be discussed. In the second problem, examples of how biophysical simulations were useful to gain fundamental insights into the role of muscle activation, muscle fiber architecture, and mucosal layer in esophagus physiology will be presented.

Host: Garg/Dutta

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Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, colloquium