Section: Overall Objectives

Introduction

BANG (Biophysique, Analyse Numérique et Géophysique) is a continuation of the former project M3N. Historically, the BANG team has developed models, simulations and numerical algorithms for two kinds of problems involving dynamics or Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). Problems from life sciences (cell movement, early embryonic development, tissue growth and regeneration, cancer modelling, pharmacology,...) are considered.

Models for complex fluid flows (shallow water models, flows with a free surface) were studied until december 2012, when the scientists in charge of the “Géophysique” part left BANG to constitute the new Inria team ANGE (https://team.inria.fr/ange/ ). The remaining (“Biophysique”) part of the BANG team (that itself has been arrested in December 2013) continues from 2014 on their research work in the new Inria team MAMBA (“Modelling and Analysis in Medical and Biological Applications”), created in January 2014 in continuity with BANG.

The common scientific features behind these biological and geophysical applications come from models involving coupled systems of PDEs (as Keller-Segel or Saint-Venant systems) that are solved (simulated) on computers involving new algorithms and from the methodology which aims at being close to experiments or real data. Within the applications to life sciences, data analysis, agent-based, ODE and PDE approaches are combined.