MathWorks Week: Climate, Energy and the Built Environment

Join MathWorks engineers and Northeastern faculty for these insightful seminars in Climate Change, Quantum Computing, and AI.

Climate, Energy and the Built Environment

Tuesday, March 1, 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Register: MathWorksNUSymposiumClimate.eventbrite.com

Insights of climate changes from the Common Era: an Artificial Intelligence view
Jianghao Wang, MathWorks

The rapid global warming seen in observations over the past 150 years shows nearly global coherence, the spatiotemporal coherence of climate epochs earlier in the Common Era (the past 2,000 years), however, has yet to be robustly tested. Understanding how the climate system works and how historical temperature changes shed light on the study of anthropogenic climate change.

Modeling the Stochastic Dynamics of Rotating Wind Turbine Blades
Luca Caracoglia, Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

This presentation describes the results of recent research activities, examining the dynamic modeling of wind turbine blades under the influence of various sources of input error and noise. The presentation will focus on the flutter phenomenon. Flutter is a flow-induced dynamic instability that results from the coupling between flap-wise bending mode and torsional mode of the rotating blade.

Locating Damage in Structural Systems
Dennis Bernal, Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

This presentation outlines the basic ideas behind some techniques used to localize damage applicable in cases where the structure is large, and the number of sensors is small. Visual inspection has been the traditional procedure used to check the condition of structural systems but there is significant interest in devising ways to replace or enhance this approach by incorporating information from sensors.