Seminar
On nonlocal approaches: From corrosion degradation fields to models of material and neural degeneration, Dr. Cynthia Flores, California State University, Channel Islands, Mon, 28 April, 2025, 11:30 a.m. NCN II A-211
Abstract
Material degradation, such as corrosion, is a critical challenge in engineering systems where material failure can have costly or catastrophic consequences. In this talk, we introduce how nonlocal mathematical models can offer new ways to describe and predict degradation patterns in corroding metals. Instead of nonlocal degradation accounts interactions over a range of distances. We discuss how this idea builds on concepts from peridynamics, a reformulation of continuum mechanics that models long-range forces and accounts for discontinuities like cracks and corrosion fronts. This approach better captures how damage spreads in real materials but talk invites mathematicians backgrounds to consider how nonlocal models can inform and be informed by complex real-world systems. Post is here.