Welcome to the first PoreLab lecture of the fall 2024!
Who: Dr. Bauyrzhan Primkulov
Bauyrzhan is instructor in Applied Mathematics at MIT, USA. He earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at MIT, where he worked on interfacial fluid dynamics problems in porous media. He studied pattern formation during fluid-fluid displacement, percolation avalanches, spin-coating in capillary tubes, and dynamics of moving contact lines on rough surfaces. He held the MathWorks fellowship at MIT and was recognized with the CEE Best Doctoral Thesis Award.
When: Wednesday 21 August at 13:00 (Norway time).
Where: The lecture will be in-person in the Kelvin room (PoreLab Oslo) and will be streamed in the common room (PoreLab Trondheim). From anywhere else, you will be able to join via the following Zoom link:
https://uio.zoom.us/j/65837085049?pwd=WjZianUyN3FJa2liQkxBbzQrOCtGdz09
Title: : “Non-resonant effects in pilot-wave hydrodynamics”.
Abstract: In 2005, Couder and co-workers discovered that a drop of silicone oil can ‘walk’ on the surface of a vertically vibrated silicone oil bath. This phenomenon occurs within a narrow parameter regime where the drop bounces in resonance with the bath’s vibrations. Until now, most of the research in pilot-wave hydrodynamics has primarily focused on droplet behavior under these resonant conditions. I will discuss a range of exotic walking modes that emerge when this resonance is disrupted.
