Event Archive

2010

May

• Cardio-vascular system modelling: different levels and approaches

  13 May 2010, 12:30 - 13:30

  The human heart is a remarkably efficient and durable mechanical pump composed of very complex biologic materials. The field of cardiac biomechanics seeks to understand how the geometry, composition, structure, mechanical and electrical properties, and haemodynamic environment of the heart interact to produce known physiologic behavior, and to apply this...

April

• Modelling of media with microstructure at different scale levels using particles

  30 April 2010, 16:00 - 17:00

  Materials and processes that fail to satisfy the continuity hypothesis are discussed and analyzed. A method based on analytical and computational considerations for the dynamics of interacting particles is developed as an effective alternative or complementary approach for the traditional continuum mechanics for such problems.

• An introduction to the BRE Centre

  29 April 2010, 14:15 - 15:15

  Dr Luke Bisby is a Reader and Senior Research Fellow in Structures in Fire working within the BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering at the University of Edinburgh.

• Stochastic Mechanics of FRP Composites

  21 April 2010, 12:30 - 13:30

  The extensive use of Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composite materials in a wide range of industries, and their inherent variability, has prompted many researchers to assess their performance from a probabilistic perspective.

• Process oriented controller for a FPGA based software transceiver

  09 April 2010, 10:00 - 11:00

  Talk on process oriented controller for a FPGA based software transceiver.

February

• TACKLING COMPLEX TURBULENT SURFACE PHENOMENA BY ANALYTICAL SURFACE-FUNCTIONS

  26 February 2010, 13:00 - 14:00

  Analytical surface-function (ASF) methods for surface boundary conditions of turbulent flows are reviewed.

2009

December

• Nonlinearity in the study of vortex-induced vibration

  04 December 2009, 15:00 - 16:00

  Abstract: The presentation will focus mainly on the problem of vortex-induced vibration experienced by risers used by the oil & gas companies in their off-shore installations.

• Next Generation Networks Systems (Engineering & Computer Science Seminar)

  03 December 2009, 15:00 - 16:00

  Professor Gerard Parr is the UK lead of the India-UK Advanced Technology Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks Systems and Services.

November

• On catastrophic sliding bifurcations, and hunting ducks in nonsmooth flows

  20 November 2009, 15:00 - 16:00

  Abstract: The theory of nonsmooth dynamical systems is still young, but fruitful. We will present some recent theoretical advances, with application to experimental results from a superconducting sensor, and open problems of relevance to mechanical systems with friction or impact, such as the occurrence of nondeterministic chaos.

October

• Particle dynamics simulation of rock fracture

  30 October 2009, 15:00 - 16:00

  Modelling the fracture of brittle materials can be difficult because it involves the fast propagation of cracks.