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October Café Scientifique with Bud Homsy
Posted by: jdewitt | September 28, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Dear Café Scientifiquers, our next café will happen on Tuesday October 29th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be Prof. Bud Homsy. The title of his talk is:
Fluid mechanics – What do the Red Spot of Jupiter and the flagellar motion of e.coli have in common?
Fluid mechanics – the study of the motion of fluids when acted upon by forces – is capable of describing fluid flows on a very wide range of length and time scales, including the Red Spot (roughly three Earth diameters in size), the Earth’s weather system, locomotion of trains, planes and automobiles, and swimming of fish, sperm, and microorganisms on the smallest scale. It is safe to say that almost every aspect of human existence depends on fluids and their flow properties. This talk will illustrate all the flows listed above (and more!) with movies and discussion of the mathematics and physics behind their description and understanding.