When:
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM CT
Where: Technological Institute, M416, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: Free
Contact:
Ted Shaeffer
(847) 491-3345
Group: McCormick-Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (ESAM)
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Title: Building Models For Swimmers in Complex and Confined Environments
Speaker: Albane Thery, University of Pennsylvania
Abstract: Biological and artificial swimmers often move in confined environments, such as the human body, soil, or foam, and in fluids that are rich in (bio)polymers. Understanding and controlling their behavior in their natural surroundings therefore requires experiments and models that reproduce these realistic conditions. This poses particular challenges as boundaries promote accumulation and self-organization through steric and hydrodynamic interactions, while non-Newtonian fluids break linearity and can make local effects dominant.
We discuss both general and specific approaches to building minimal models for single microswimmers or suspensions, in some systems ranging from bacterial contamination in biological fluids to plankton trapped in foams.
Zoom: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/91933119428
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