Noyce Conference Room
Colloquium
US Mountain Time
Our campus is closed to the public for this event.
David Hu (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Abstract. Fluids and solids leave our bodies everyday. How do animals do it, from mice to elephants? In this talk, I will show how the shape of urinary and digestive organs enable them to function, regardless of the size of the animal. Such ideas may teach us how to more efficiently transport materials. I will show how the pee-pee pipe enables animals to urinate in constant time, how slippery mucus is critical for defecation, and how the motion of the gut is related to the density of its contents, and in turn to the gut’s natural frequency.
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