This seminar presents ongoing research dedicated to the development of physical models, computational methodologies and sensor concepts based on dynamical systems and continuum mechanics approaches. It gives an overview of several sensing technologies designed to detect e.g. electrostatic-field nonuniformities, hazardous gas concentrations, mechanical motion/position changes, fatigue-related damage in metals, etc.
These sensor concepts are designed based on nonlinear dynamical systems theory and multiphysical-interaction models, as well as dedicated numerical solvers for continuum mechanics problems — several examples being finite-element and spectral solvers for PDEs, order-reduction and modal decomposition methods for ODEs and various asymptotic procedures.
