Team:Exeter/Notebook/Oct5
Monday, 5 October
We had a meeting at 9am to discuss what lab work we needed to do, what progress we were making towards deadlines and who was going to work on the most imminent deadline (the title and abstract freeze). Adam and Matthew volunteered to work on it.
Adam finished the Science Communication wiki page and Bethan, Izzy and Nina proofread it.
Team Collaborations
AshesiGhana redesigned our printer nozzle and sent us a digital 3D model of it:
This design changed the perpendicular inputs which Ed had added to allow mixing within the nozzle and remove the need for a separate mixing chamber. However, Team Ghana's design had the potential advantage of creating a vortex within the nozzle which would allow the bacteria and hydrogel to mix and flow smoothly out of the nozzle.
Hydrogels and Modelling
Ghana designed the nozzle based on Reynolds number, which is used to predict fluid flow in different situations - based on this Velizar started writing a paper delving into the theory of Fluid Dynamics and used the Navier-Stokes equation to calculate the mass flux of gel from the nozzle.