- April 29, 2022
- Posted by: M. Sadegh Riasi
- Category: Society News
The Kimberly-Clarck Distinguished Lecturship Award, awarded by Interpore, was part of the MOX Colloquia, a seminar series organized by the MOX Laboratoriy of Politecnico di Milano (Institutional Member of InterPore) in the fields of mathematical modeling, numerical analysis, statistics, scientific computing.
Over 40 people took part to the event in person, whereas about 30 people were connected online.
During his talk Prof. Huyghe discussed the importance of blood perfusion in the heart. Indeed, if mechanical structures fail due to stress concentration and cracking, failure of the human heart is usually associated to a mismatch between blood perfusion and metabolic needs. The branching structure of the vascular system requires an ad hoc modeling as pressure compartment in the context of a poro-mechanical model of the beating heart. In particular, the multiscale structure of the cardiac tissue needs a specially designed constitutive poro-viscoelastic model. In the subsequent discussion Prof. Hyughe answered several questions from an audience formed mainly by applied mathematicians working in geological porous media or in the modeling of the cardiovascular system, addressing technical points of his talk and giving his personal view on future lines of research.