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Neurophysiology of pipe flow

Presenter
May 26, 2015
Abstract
I will discuss a surprising analogy between the subcritical transition to turbulence and the dynamics action potentials in neurons. Laminar flow plays the role of the rest state of a neuron, while turbulent flow plays the role of the excited state. From a simple model motivated by electrophysiology, I will show that it is possible to explain many large-scale patterns observed in transitional pipe flow.