Going with the flow - mathematical modelling of fluid transport in plants

植物维持着地球上的生命。它们是令人着迷的有机体，尽管它们很重要，但我们仍然有很多不了解的地方，比如它们如何传递信息来塑造它们的生长和发育。许多植物生物学可以归结为物理原理，在这个项目中，将研究植物维管系统中流体流动的模型。该项目将用数学方程发展物理思想，并编写相关的数值方法来求解这些方程。

Plants sustain life on the earth. They are fascinating organisms and despite their importance there is still much we don't understand, such as how they transmit information to shape their growth and development. Much of plant biology can be reduced to physical principles and in this project, models of fluid flows in the plant's vasculature system will be investigated. The project will develop the physical ideas with the mathematical equations and code up the associated numerical approaches for solving these equations.