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GALCIT Colloquium

Friday, January 13, 2012
3:00pm to 4:00pm
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Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Fish, Dipoles and Vortices
Eva Kanso, Associate Professor , Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering , University of Southern California,
In this talk I will discuss some aspects of: (1) passive locomotion and stability in unsteady flows; (2) motion synchronization in a finite dipole dynamical system; and (3) transient dynamics in viscously decaying point vortices. The emphasis throughout the talk will be on a low-order modeling and computational approach. A main theme connecting these projects, and one of the underlying motivation, comes from understanding the role of fluid-structure interactions in fish locomotion and fish schooling.
For more information, please contact Xin Ning by phone at 626-395-3073 or by email at [email protected].