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ME Events
Icing and Rain Effects on Advanced Air Vehicles: Physics and Mitigation Strategies
Department of Mechanical Engineering
PRESENTATION: Inflight icing and heavy rainfall pose significant hazards to aircraft and aero-engine operations, leading to aerodynamic performance degradation, propulsion efficiency loss, and increased risks to flight safety. This presentation introduces recent research efforts aimed at elucidating the fundamental physics of adverse weather interactions with aircraft and propulsion systems and developing effective mitigation strategies to ensure assured, all...
Integrating Fluid Dynamics With Virology: An Intra-airway Model for Inhaled Transmission of Pathogens
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar
PRESENTATION: While substantial research has focused on the spatial transmission of human respiratory ejecta, progress has been relatively limited in understanding how the physics of inhalation flow within an exposed subject's airway affects the local transport of pathogen-laden particulates, ultimately influencing infection onset. In the first part of this talk, Dr. Basu will present a pathogen-agnostic fluid dynamics model that explores...
