[Crib-list] SPEAKER: RAUL RADOVITZKY (MIT) -- Computational Research in Boston Seminar -- Friday, May 1, 2009 -- TIME: 12:30 PM in Room 32-144

[Shirley Entzminger]

			COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON SEMINAR


DATE:		Friday, MAY 1, 2009
TIME:		12:30 PM
LOCATION:	Building 32, Room 144  (Stata Center)

(Pizza and beverages will be provided at 12:15 PM outside Room 32-144)

TITLE:		Biofidelic Models and Large Scale Simulation
		for Blast Trauma Physics Assessment and Mitigation


SPEAKER:	RAUL RADOVITZKY (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)


ABSTRACT:

I will provide an overview of efforts at MIT to characterize the effects 
of blast waves on the human brain.  Topics to be discussed include our 
progress in developing biofidelic models of the human head, tissue 
constitutive models applicable to blast loading conditions, coupled 
simulations of blast-head interactions, model validation against physical 
and animal models, biological indicators of the effect of pressure waves 
on brain function; and the quantification of electromagnetic field 
emissions resulting from the interaction of the blast wave and the human 
head.

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