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SUMMARY:James Baker -- Seeing inside moving material: Dynamic x-ray imagi
 ng of granular flows
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for this seminar by James Baker (Liverpool John Moore
 s University) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical B
 iology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found here h
 ttps://www.cms.livjm.ac.uk/APMSeminar/\n\nThe talk will be hosted by LJM
 U and streamed via Teams please contact carl.whitfield@manchester.ac.uk 
 or i.siekmann@ljmu.ac.uk for the link\, or sign up to the mailing list.\
 n\nAbstract: Granular materials are everywhere - think of sand\, soil an
 d snow as everyday examples. These collections of individual particles c
 an act like solids – we can walk or even build houses on top without any
  serious deformation. However\, they sometimes behave like liquids\, and
  when granular materials start to flow it can be catastrophic\, with ava
 lanches and landslides being examples of natural granular flows. In indu
 stry\, granular flows are also commonplace during the crushing of minera
 l ores\, the mixing of pharmaceutical powders\, or the separation and tr
 ansport of food grains\, to name a few. It is therefore crucial to build
  reliable models to help us mitigate natural hazards\, as well as optimi
 se industrial processes.\n\nExperimentally validating such models can be
  difficult because most granular materials are opaque – you can only see
  what is going on at the boundaries\, which is not necessarily represent
 ative of the whole flow. X-ray technologies provide an unobtrusive means
  to delve deeper\, but established methods are not well-suited to moving
  material. In this talk I will present a suite of dynamic x-ray imaging 
 techniques designed specifically for flowing media\, Through a series of
  small-scale examples\, I will show how image analysis can be used to me
 asure various material properties\, and some implications for flow model
 ling. Beyond dry granular flows\, these developments could also be appli
 ed to more general soft-matter systems such as biological foams\, gels a
 nd suspensions.\n\nTo subscribe to the mailing list for this event serie
 s\, please send an e-mail with the phrase “subscribe math-lifesci-semina
 r” in the message body to listserv@listserv.manchester.ac.uk
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