The 3rd meeting of the COSI Research Network took place on 17th September 2015 at the University of Birmingham. Talks on the theme of Interfaces in Biological Systems were held in toom A17 of the Mathematical Sciences Building.
The invited lecture Patterning and control of microscale fluid systems was given by Dr Alice Thompson from the University of Manchester.
Abstract: Alongside fundamental questions in predicting the dynamics of fluid systems, a natural desire is to use this knowledge to manipulate and control their behaviour. I will describe two systems dominated by free-boundary effects that are amenable to reduced-dimensional modelling and have practical applications in microscale inkjet printing and coating problems. I will explore the use of pre-determined controls in the form of patterning, and active feedback controls based on real-time observations of the system state, and will also investigate the robustness of these control strategies to changes in the modelling assumptions.