Academics Unplugged Talk - Prof Jason Reese

Imagine sifting salt molecules from seawater, to provide drinking water in dry countries. Or treating vehicle surfaces to control the air or water flow and reduce fuel consumption. These are examples of multi-scale challenges, in which the interactions between the smallest constituents, right down to molecules, open up exciting new technological opportunities.

I will discuss how borrowing ideas from physics, applied maths, chemistry, biology, and computer science can enable us to understand and simulate these and other emerging applications.

Professsor Jason Reese, Institute for Multiscale Thermofluids, School of Engineering.