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The Solid Mechanics group of the University of Trento (Italy) announces ISDMM09, the fourth international meeting devoted to Mechanics of Material Forces, following the workshops held at Kaiserslautern (2003), Symi (2005) and Aussois (2007), and will be held in the alpine city of Trento, Italy, from July 6th to 9th, 2009.
Abstract submission: January 31, 2009
More info: http://portale.unitn.it/events/isdmm09
I have a problem in my research that involves a platinum electrode which will form bubbles of hydrogen gas. Bubbles sticking to the electrode is expected to be a problem, and one method of dealing with this is to induce resonant vibrations in the electrode. These vibrations can be excited by running an alternating current through the electrode, which produces physical forces through electromagnetic interactions.
Although this is a class in solid mechanics, I chose a project which focuses on fluid dynamics. I did this because I think this project will be very educational with respect to the Finite Element Analysis and mechanics in general.
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Project Description:
The biology of the inversion process in Volvox carteri is examined, and a coupled mechanical and kinetic model is proposed. See attached proposal for details. The presentation given is also attached here, as well as the final paper. Also, a movie of the simulation that made all of the work wroth while, the inversion of a half-sphere, is attached here as well. Note: The file inversion2bw.doc is a movie, just download it and change the extension to .avi. This has to be done since iMechanica doesn't allow attachment of .avi files directly.
