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Transport and Adsorption in MultiScale Porous Materials – TAMTAM
Hierarchical porous materials, combining multiple porosities, are widely used in industry (adsorption, separation, catalysis) to overcome slow diffusion in microporous solids ( < 2 nm) and increase access to their large surface area. The benefits of combining porosities by adding meso (2-50 nm) and
Delay transition to turbulence by mimicking lotus leaves – DETAIL
The lotus leaf is known for its self-cleaning properties that are due to its high water repellence, also called superhydrophobicity (SH). This interesting property is due to the nanostructure of its surface, which is composed by a hierarchical structure of microepidermis covered in hairlike nanowaxe
Phonon heat transport in semiconductors containing mesoscale nano-inclusions – MESOPHON
The core of the project is the understanding of the fundamental processes occurring when a phonon of a given wavelength is scattered by a mesoscale-object having a size comparable to the phonon wavelength. This problem, which appears to be a classic case of electromagnetic wave physics known as the
The physics of multicellular organization in bacteria – BactPhys
We propose a novel approach to study bacterial multicellular organization based on physical mechanisms in order to identify the minimum elements of biochemical regulation required to coordinate complex processes such as bacterial clustering, stream formation, and fruiting body formation. This is a m
Sub-Riemannian Geometry and Interactions – SRGI
cf pdf cf pdf cf pdf cf pdf Sub-Riemannian manifolds provide an important mathematical model for many problems involving some nonholonomic constraints. Since several years, there has been an impressive revival of interest in sub-Riemannian geometry (in short, SR geometry), together with many emergin
Convergent Metrics for Digital Calculus – CoMeDiC
Discrete exterior calculus has emerged in the last decade as a powerful framework for solving discrete variational problems in image and geometry processing. It simplifies both the formulation of variational problems and their numerical resolution, and is able to extract global optima in many cases.
Algorithm Design for Microrobots with Energy Constraints – ANCOR
We consider collaborative tasks for teams of mobile robots, such as search and exploration, delivering packages, data collection and pattern formation. We determine bounds on the energy requirements and team size for various tasks, provide complexity results under energy constraints and develop app
Multiscale functional-structural plant modelling at the example of apple trees – FSPM Apple
The project is devoted to two research foci: F1 – «Model development, calibration, analysis, and corresponding software tools«, F2 – «Case study: Modelling apple tree growth at organ, branch and whole-tree scale«. In F1, we are building mathematical and algorithmic tools for bridging the gap b
Holography for underwater detection – HYDRE
The objective of the project HYDRE is to realize an optical sensor for the detection of underwater acoustic waves (optical hydrophone). The proposed sensor allows reaching high sensitivities and presents an intrinsically low frequency cutoff that permits to filter out the noise from the environment.
Embedded innovative sensors and software in power electronic components – CAPTIF
CAPTIF project «Embedded innovative sensors and software in power electronic components« aims to improve the behavioral and lifetime models of power modules, by the integration of multiphysics set of sensors, and signal analysis. The objectives were, on the one hand, to propose a method of sensor de
