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The simulation of multi-phase fluids has attained growing interest in the last decades. While for single-phase flow with the Navier-Stokes system the basic model is well understood, for multi-phase systems additional challenges by the necessity to track the transition zones or interfaces between different fluid components arise. 
We propose to use a phase field as a smooth indicator function to describe this situation. Using phase-field models, one introduces a small layer of mixed fluids as a so-called diffuse interface. One benefit of phase-field models is, that they can naturally deal with topology changes and can easily be extended to cope with contact line dynamics.
This model allows for discussing the optimal control problem for two-phase flow. We introduce a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model for two-phase flow including a model for contact line dynamics and introduce an energy stable numerical scheme. 
This scheme allows us to investigate the time-discrete (open loop) optimal control problem, where we investigate different control actions to steer a given distribution of phases towards the desired distribution. We derive the existence of solutions to the optimal control problem and provide first-order optimality conditions.

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Doctoral candidate Christine Skagen at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Pharmacological and genetic approaches to modulate energy metabolism in skeletal muscle cells" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Johanne Naper Trønnes at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Medication safety in pregnancy - with focus on analgesics and neurodevelopmental outcomes in children" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Hardi Peter, Associate Professor at the Max-Planck-Institute for Solar Physics, University of Göttingen.

Social stress and adrenal gene expression changes - can stress promote pain?

Vanessa Wyrwoll will defend her thesis "Unique particle beams and energies at CERN applied to radiation testing of electronics" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

PhD candidate Naomi Croft Guslund at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Characterising the Atlantic cod immune system with single-cell transcriptomics" for the degree of PhD.

Ecosystem effects of invasive domesticated Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and global warming

Investigating the role of autophagy in removal of defective endosomes

Kvantifisering av hoppekrepsparasitter med digitale fluorescens-bilder

Deciphering the molecular basis underlying the regulation of the gap-junction protein connexin43 by the E3 ubiquitin ligases SMURF2 and NEDD4

By Jeremy Swann from the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany. Open for all.

Welcome to the opening of the University Library's major new initiative: the Digital Scholarship Centre (DSC).

Vi ønsker deg varmt velkommen til åpningen av Universitetsbibliotekets nye storsatsning: Digital Scholarship Centre (DSC). 

Seal the deal; Developing methods to shed light on food web utilisation by a top predator.

Functional diversity of myoglobin isozymes from Carassius auratus - Biophysical study of myoglobin as a peroxidase

An autoecological study of Cephalantera rubra in Norway

Palladium nanoparticles in copper transport mutants of Escherichia coli

In vivo and in vitro strategies to study precise gene editing using CRISPR-Cas9

Struktur-funksjonsstudier av ferredoksin-flavodoksin NADP+ oksidoreduktase 1 fra Bacillus cereus som en jern-opptak oksidoreduktase

The Biological Background of Depression-like Syndrome

C*-algebra seminar by Marcelo Laca (University of Victoria)