Chemical Engineering Seminar

This talk will discuss the  automation of reasoning and problem solving for Fluid Mechanics. Fluid flows involve complex, multi-scale physics  whose understanding and control remain to a large extent unresolved. I will discuss how developments in Artificial Intelligence  present great promise for advancement in this field.  I will reflect on past connections between AI and Fluid Mechanics and  outline  algorithms for search, learning and reasoning with data in nano-fluidics,  chaotic systems  and collective swimming. I will discuss successes and  failures for this approach and outline new horizons for human thinking that remains the critical component  in understanding and solving Fluid Mechanics problems.