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SUMMARY:How wind models tree architecture
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Christophe Eloy\, IRPHE Marseille\nThe aerial part of a 
 tree can be viewed as the response to the following engineering problem: b
 uild a mechanically stable structure\, as light as possible and allowing t
 he tree a maximal access to sunlight. To respond to these requirements\, t
 ree grow by producing at each step “units” of similar size. It can thu
 s seem paradoxal that its architecture is generally self-similar with bran
 ches statistically shorter and thinner near the foliage. Since branches ca
 nnot grow in length from year to year\, this hierarchy is only possible th
 rough the end-to-end aggregation of different branches and the loss of lat
 eral branches. The architecture of a tree is therefore the result of a com
 plex growth strategy and history. During this seminar\, I will present a m
 odel that aims to better understand these mechanisms.\nBio: My research ad
 dresses various fundamental problems of fluid and solid mechanics\, includ
 ing fluid-structure interactions\, hydrodynamic instabilities\, animal loc
 omotion\, aeroelasticity\, rotating flows\, and plant biomechanics. It gen
 erally involves a combination of analytical modeling\, experiments\, and n
 umerical work.
LOCATION:CM 0 10 http://plan.epfl.ch/?room=CM%200%2010
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