Seminars
Location: Lady Davis Building, Room 451
Ori Levy
Bistable elements are highly valuable for applications involving mechanical memory, switches, and multi-stable metamaterials designed for advanced energy absorption. Although the double-beam element is a standard design for bistable springs, a closed-form analytical characterization linking its bistable behavior to specific...
Location: Lady Davis Building, Room 641
Shir Levi
Due to its inherent potential as a clean and renewable energy source, there has been an increasing interest during the last decades in the use of hydrogen in a variety of energy processes. While modern fundamental equations provide highly accurate...
Location: Lady Davis Building, room 433
Tal Nesher
Locomotion of micrometer-sized swimmers is governed by low Reynolds number hydrodynamics, demanding non-reciprocal periodic shape changes for propulsion. While Purcell’s planar three-link swimmer is a canonical theoretical model, validating its analytically derived optimal gaits experimentally remains challenging due to unmodeled...
Location: Dan-Kahn Building, Room 217
Tannaz Afroozfar
Wear in polymer–metal contacts is critical to the performance and stability of many mechanical systems, especially under sliding conditions where friction and material loss arise from the complex interplay of surface topography, contact mechanics, and material response. Accurate wear prediction...
Location: Lady Davis Building, Room 442
Boaz Gavriel
Thermocapillary Shaping over finite domains: high order finite-differences solver and linear control
Thermocapillary Shaping is a novel method for fabrication of optical phase masks. By controlling the heat gradients on a thin liquid film’s surface, we drive surface deformations via the thermocapillary effect. The underlying physics of this method is described by...
Location: Lady Davis Building, Auditorium 250
Oded Ben-Tsedek
Intrinsic localized modes (ILMs), or discrete breathers, constitute a fundamental class of spatially localized, time-periodic solutions in nonlinear dynamical systems capable of sustaining energy localization in spatially extended homogeneous settings. In classical settings, ILMs typically arise via the amplitude–frequency dependence...
Location: Lady Davis Building, Room 440
Yotam Katzman
Traditional manufacturing of ophthalmic lenses relies heavily on mechanical grinding and polishing. These subtractive processes are not only expensive and time-consuming but also inherently wasteful. While Fluidic Shaping offers a promising alternative by utilizing surface tension to naturally create exceptionally...
Location: Lady Davis Building, Auditorium 250
Assoc. Prof. Shai Revzen
Many mechanical engineers learn about the "Purcell’s Scallop Theorem": that a single Degree-of-Freedom moving back and forth cannot generate net motion in a viscous medium. This talk will define and analyze Purcell's classical result, and tie it to the motility...
Location: Lady Davis Building, Auditorium 250
Alexander L. Yarin
Location: Lady Davis Building, Auditorium 250
Sofia Kuperman
The need for efficient energy storage systems remains one of the key bottlenecks in the transition toward widespread use of renewable energy. Achieving substantial improvements in the performance of energy storage beyond incremental gains requires rethinking overlooked aspects of those...
Location: Lady Davis Building, Auditorium 250
Ezra Ben-Abu
Multistable structures provide a powerful route for achieving programmable shape morphing, controlled deployment, energy storage, and adaptive mechanical behavior without continuous actuation. My doctoral research focused on developing instability-based fabrication strategies that harness directed mechanical instabilities as a design tool...
Location: Lady Davis Building, Auditorium 250
Tannaz Afroozfar
Wear in polymer–metal contacts is critical to the performance and stability of many mechanical systems, especially under sliding conditions where friction and material loss arise from the complex interplay of surface topography, contact mechanics, and material response. Accurate wear prediction...
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