Lili the puppy relaxing

This week's pet comes from our student Marcelina!

This is Lili (Liliputek), a 17-week-old blue-merle Yorkshire terrier. In Marcelina's words:

Using ‘sentinel’ plants to improve early detection of invasive plant pathogens
Lovell-Read, F Parnell, S Cunniffe, N Thompson, R PLoS Computational Biology volume 19 issue 2 (02 Feb 2023)

This year the Lunar New Year in China begins on Sunday, January 22. Happy Year of the Rabbit (unless you are Vietnamese for whom it is the Year of the Cat).

Image of rabbit

Tue, 07 Feb 2023
12:30
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Studying occupational mobility using online resume data

Rohit Sahasrabuddhe
Abstract

Data sets of self-reported online resumes are a valuable tool to understand workers' career trajectories and how workers may adapt to the changing demands of employers. However, the sample of workers that choose to upload their resumes online may not be representative of a nation's workforce. To understand the advantages and limitations of these datasets, we analyze a data set of more than 1 Million online resumes and compare the findings with a administrative data from the Current Population Survey (CPS).
 

Tue, 07 Mar 2023
12:30
C3

Mathematical modelling of liquid lithium inside a tokamak fusion reactor

Oliver Bond
Abstract

We model a tokamak fusion reaction, combining Maxwell's equations with the Navier-Stokes equations, the heat equation and the Seebeck effect giving a model of thermoelectric magnetohydrodynamics (TEMHD). At leading order, we showed that the free surface must be flat, that the pressure is constant, and that the temperature decouples from the governing equations relating the fluid velocity and magnetic field. We also find that the fluid flow is driven entirely by the temperature gradient normal to the free surface. Using singular perturbation methods we obtained velocity profiles which exhibit so-called Hartmann layers and thicker side layers. The role of the aspect ratio has been seldom considered in classical MHD duct flow literature as a varying parameter. Here, we show it's importance and derive a relationship between the aspect ratio and Hartmann number that maximises flow rate of fluid down the duct.

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