Seminars

An abrupt local change in conduit geometry alters the strength of a propagating shock wave and initiates a transient flow start-up process as the shock impulsively accelerates the gas from rest. The resulting wave reflections, shock–shock interactions, flow separation, and...

Urban environments are characterized by complex flow phenomena due to interactions between buildings, streets, and other urban structures. Understanding turbulent flow within canopies is essential, as it plays a pivotal role in the transport of heat, moisture, and gases between...

Mechanical function at small scales is essential for localized and distributed interaction in haptics, robotics, and biomedical devices. Conventional MEMS offer precision, speed, and scalable fabrication but are limited in deformation and compliant interaction. Soft systems offer large deformation and...

Multistable metamaterials are engineered structures capable of reconfiguring between distinct equilibrium states, offering extraordinary functionality, such as substantial energy dissipation and nonlinear wave propagation. However, current implementations rely predominantly on macroscale, polymer-based fabrication, resulting in architectures suffering from geometric defects,...

Flexible rod-like objects such as cables, wires and hoses appear in assembly, maintenance and household tasks, yet their manipulation by robot arms remains difficult. Unlike a rigid body, the shape of a flexible object is determined by the positions and...

This talk describes the derivation of optimal, semi-analytic, algebraic equality conditions that can be used to identify second-moment stability boundaries in linear, time-invariant stochastic delay-differential equations with a single constant delay and both multiplicative and additive noise, without the use...