Fluid Research Teaches Us How Human Body Must Go with the Flow; Dr Clare Wood Is a Lecturer in the College of Engineering at Swansea University. Her Research Focuses on Computational Simulation of Fluids and Structures for Novel Applications in Engineering, Medicine and Biosciences

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CAN you imagine a world without some of the science and engineering innovations of the last 50 years? No internet, silicon chip technology, fibre optic communications, mobile phones or DNA sequencing.

It was the UK that led so much of this cutting-edge research and it is the UK that must push towards the next scientific, engineering or medical breakthrough if we want to be a player in the research and industrial innovations of the next 50 years.

It might surprise some people to learn that Swansea University is a world leader in something called computational engineering research.

Fundamental techniques such as the Finite Element Method were first pioneered …