Locomotion Strategies in Granular Media
Event details
| Date | 22.03.2018 |
| Hour | 16:15 › 17:15 |
| Speaker | Dr. Baptiste Darbois-Texier - Universidad de Santiago de Chile (Usach) |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract Desert is a hard place to live. However, some species of snakes, lizards and bugs are very adapted to this hostile environment. For exemple, the fringe lizard burrows under the hot surface of sand to escape predators and heat, the sandfish lizard swims in sand as a fish and the rattlesnake lifts alternatively his body in order to climb steep dunes. In this talk, we will explore the mechanics that underlies these strategies of locomotion and see how they interact with the special rheology of granular media. This approach will lead us to imagine new modes of locomotion operating in granular materials and that may be useful to develop robots for these environments.
Bio Baptiste Darbois-Texier leads multidisciplinary researches on fluid and granular mechanics. He conducted his PhD on the trajectories of sport balls and a first postdoc on fluid flows generated by phase changes. He is now a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Santiago in Chile and works on locomotion in granular media.
Bio Baptiste Darbois-Texier leads multidisciplinary researches on fluid and granular mechanics. He conducted his PhD on the trajectories of sport balls and a first postdoc on fluid flows generated by phase changes. He is now a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Santiago in Chile and works on locomotion in granular media.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- MEGA.Seminar Organizing Committee (Anna Lee, Lorenzo Benedetti, Hervé Elettro, Till Junge, Francesco Maresca, Roozbeh Rezakhani, Dong Yan, Noelia Simone)