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Dead leaves, ping-pong balls or plastic golf balls are floated down a small stream. The number of leaves/balls passing recording stations along the stream are tallied. Students are then challenged to develop a transport model for the resulting data. From this exercise students gain greater understanding of PDE modeling, conservation laws, parameter estimation as well as mass and momentum transport processes.
Publication Date
2016
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Recommended Citation
Kummel, Miro; Bruder, Andrea; Powell, Jim; Kohler, Brynja; and Lewis, Matt, "Stream Lab" (2016). Laboratory Experiences in Mathematical Biology. 4.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/lemb/4