Professor Neelesh A. Patankar | WIN Seminar Series

Professor Neelesh A. Patankar visited WIN on July 10 2018 to discuss his work on computational biophysics of organisms and organ physiology. Dr. Patankar is a professor and an associate chair of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University, United States.

“Computational biophysics of organisms and organ physiology”

New numerical algorithms for the movement of immersed solid bodies in fluids have been developed in our group. A novel constraint-based formulation of this computational approach will be briefly presented. We have applied these techniques to study a variety of problems. The talk will focus on two problems. The first involves application at organism-level to understand aquatic locomotion. The second involves application at organ-level to understand esophageal transport. In the first problem, some of our key results pertaining to the role of hydrodynamics in the evolution of fish form and function, with applications to robotics, will be discussed. In the second problem, examples of how biophysical simulations were useful to gain fundamental insights into the role of muscle activation, muscle fiber architecture, and mucosal layer in esophagus physiology will be presented.

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