Life at high péclet number
- 👤 Speaker: Professor R Goldstein, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
- 📅 Date & Time: Friday 05 March 2010, 14:00 - 15:00
- 📍 Venue: Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering
Abstract
In systems as diverse as concentrated bacterial suspensions, colonial algae, and plants we find fluid flows driven by the collective action of individual motile components (flagella, molecular motors) which are sufficiently fast as to strongly dominate diffusion. I will summarize our recent experimental and theoretical work in this area, highlighting implications for intercellular communication and for aspects of evolutionary and developmental biology.
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Professor R Goldstein, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
Friday 05 March 2010, 14:00-15:00