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The challenges of fluid mechanics; The identity of wine, determined; Lithium, a trace in the search for planets

The challenges of fluid mechanics

The Basque Centre for Applied Mathematics (BCAM) has organized a seminar to analyse the challenges of computational fluid mechanics in the industry, and in aeronautics in particular. The aim will be to learn from international experiences with the aim of identifying and building future research infrastructures.

ENRIKE ZUAZUA; BCAM: Fluid dynamics, for example, is often used to design these energy generators and to calculate how their shape should be. Or, today, in new aircraft, to make them safer, bigger and lighter, but also more ecological. The seminar will be held on Friday at the BCAM building in the Zamudio Technology Park.

The identity of the wine, determined

The identity of red wine from Rioja Alavesa has been determined in his doctoral thesis by Iñaki Etaio, a researcher at the Faculty of Pharmacy: apparently with a purple tone and intense color, with a medium acidity, with dryness, balance and a bit of bitterness. Through this research, he has made a sensory description of this type of wine, as well as determining the steps to follow to analyze it from now on.

Lithium, a trace to search for planets

At the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, a quicker way to find out if sun-sized stars have planets or not is to look at the amount of lithium in the stars’ atmosphere. In fact, stars with planets have been found to have much less lithium in the atmosphere than stars without planets. This feature was first seen in the Sun: they realized that it had 140 times less lithium than stars of its size.