The PhD defence will be in Abels utsikt - Niels Henrik Abels hus. The host of the session will moderate the technicalities while the chair of the defence will moderate the disputation.
Ex auditorio questions: the chair of the defence will invite the audience to ask questions ex auditorio at the end of the defence.
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Trial lecture
15th of April, time: 10:15 am, room 1259 (Abels utsikt).
Elastocapillary mechanics of fibres
Main research findings
Interactions between fluids and solids are common in biological and industrial processes. These situations are often essential but are notoriously difficult to understand and model. In my thesis, I employed a combination of theoretical, numerical, and experimental approaches to study such fluid-structure interactions.
Specifically, I investigated four different subjects:
- The effect of surface softness on the outcomes of a droplet impact; for instance air bubble entrapment which is a crucial phenomenon for inkjet printing.
- The influence of mechanical vibrations on the motion of droplets on a thin fiber; a consideration important for the development of technologies to harvest water from fog.
- The mechanisms that enable an elastic sheet to levitate under vibrations; offering insights that could guide the development of soft robots navigating complex terrains.
- The dynamics of contact between a flexible membrane and a solid surface; a process that notably arises in wafer bonding technologies used in the microelectronic industry.
In each instance, I have arrived at novel physical insights into the mechanisms of interaction between fluid flow and solid deformations, laying the foundations for future theoretical and applied research.
Adjudication committee
- Professor Dominic Vella, University of Oxford
- Professor Camille Duprat, Ecole Polytechnique
- Professor Mikael Mortensen, University of Oslo
Supervisors
- Professor Andreas Carlson, University of Oslo
- Professor Kent-Andre Mardal, University of Oslo
- Researcher Tak Shing Chan, University of Oslo
Chair of defence
Head of Department Geir Dahl.
Host of the session
Professor Mikael Mortensen, University of Oslo