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SUMMARY:How oscillating collapsible tubes extract energy from a viscous fl
 ow - Professor Matthias Heil\, Dept. of Mathematics\, University of Manche
 ster
DTSTART:20080221T120000Z
DTEND:20080221T010000Z
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CONTACT:Anne Alexander
DESCRIPTION:Many physiological flows (e.g. blood flow in the veins and art
 eries or the flow of air in the pulmonary airways) are strongly affected b
 y the interaction\nbetween the fluid flow and the vessel wall elasticity. 
 Experimentally\, the problem is typically studied with  a `Starling resist
 or'\, a device in which fluid is\ndriven through a finite-length\, thin-wa
 lled\, elastic tube which is mounted on two rigid tubes and enclosed in a 
 pressure chamber.\nOne of the most striking features of this system is its
  propensity to develop large-amplitude self-excited oscillations. Our unde
 rstanding of the mechanism(s) that initiate and maintain these oscillation
 s is still limited.
LOCATION:Open Plan Area\, BP Institute\, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ
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