This talk focuses on accelerating the design of microfluidic heat sinks via topology optimization of the conjugate heat transfer problem. The computational bottleneck of this iterative process is the numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes (NS) equations due to their nonlinearity. The approach presented in this talk leverages the Proper Orthogonal…

  The impacts of pollutants on freshwater and deep-sea marine fish The deep sea is a sink for pollutants.  Among marine fishes, those thriving in the deep sea are particularly exposed to pollutants as these tend to absorb on organic matter particles sinking to the bottom of the oceans. Few studies were carried out on these deep…

This international conference starts from the premise that practices of imitation and copying were integral to the making of architecture in early modern Europe. Theoretical discourses of the period posited that architecture was an art in constant evolution based on imitation (imitatio). Extending from classical rhetoric, imitation was said to…

Pr. David de la Croix and Dr. Mara Vitale Published a column on VOXeu. In this paper they studied the participation of women in European Academia from the first Universities to the eve of the Industrial Revolution.  Read the column on VOXeu