Fluid Mechanics Seminars

Academic Year 2000-2001

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June 18, 2001

2:15  p.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. Bill Ashurst
Sandia National Laboratories
Livermore, CA
"One Dimensional Turbulence: vector formulation and application to free shear flows"

June 11, 2001

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. Tricia W. Sur
SAIC, San Diego
"Microfluidics"

June 4, 2001

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Patrick McMurtry
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Utah
"Turbulent Mixing in a Verrrry Long Pipe"

May 23, 2001

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor V.C. Patel
Iowa Instistute of Hydraulic Research
"Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flow over Rough Surfaces"

May 21, 2001

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Haris Catrakis
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Irvine
"Turbulence, mixing, and fluid interfaces"

May 14, 2001

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Geoff R. Spedding
Department of Aerospace Engineering
University of Southern California
"Applications and Implications of Stratified Wakes Research"

May 7, 2001

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Gary Leal
Department of Chemical Engineering
"Flow-Induced Coalescence in Viscous Fluids"

May 2, 2001

2:00 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. Andrew W. Woods
B.P. Institute, University of Cambridge
"Gravity Driven Flows in Porous Rocks"

April 30, 2001

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor James J. Riley
Mechanical Engineering Department
University of Washington
"Dynamics of Turbulence Strongly Influenced by Buoyancy"

April 25, 2001

3:30 p.m.
Nierenberg Hall 101 SIO*

Grae Worster
University of Cambridge
"The Fluid Dynamics of Sea Ice"
*
Jointly sponsored with PORD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

April 23, 2001

To be rescheduled

Professor Kyle Squires
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Arizona State University
"Simulation of gas-particle turbulent channel flow with a binary mixture of colliding particles"

April 20, 2001

11 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. Linda Hedges
Principal Engineer, The Boeing Company
"Unsteady Simulations of Massively Separated Flow"

April 9, 2001

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Hassan M. Nagib
Illinois Institute of Technology
"The Overlap Region of Wall-Bounded Turbulent flows and the Log-Law Versus Power-Law Debate"

March 12, 2001

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. Tony Leonard
California Institute of Technology
"Flow Induced Vibration: Lessons Learned from Numerical Experiments"

March 5, 2001

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. Carlos Haertel
ETHZ
Zurich, Switzerland
"Analyzing Structure and Stability Properties of Gravity Currents by Direct Numerical Simulation"

February 26, 2001

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor C. Pozrikidis
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
University of California, San Diego
"Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulation of the Biofluid-Dynamics of Red Blood Cells"

February 20, 2001

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. George Carnavale
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
"Overturning and Mixing in the Thermocline Forced by Wave-Wave Interactions"

February 12, 2001

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. Tihomir Hristov
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Irvine
"Critical Layer Effects in the Wind above Ocean Waves"

February 5, 2001

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Andrew J. Bernoff
Harvey Mudd College
"Dynamics and Stability of Van der Waals Driven Thin Film Rupture"

January 29, 2001

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Paul Roberts
Department of Mathematics, UCLA
"Topics in Super Fluid Mechanics"

January 22, 2001

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Edward J. Kerschen
University of Arizona, Tucson
"Sound Generated by Gust-Airfoil Interactions"

January 16, 2001

1:45 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Francesco Paparella
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
"Excitation of basin modes by air-sea coupling"

January 9, 2001

2:00 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Special Seminar:
Dr. D.D. Joseph
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
"Lift Correlation's from Direct Simulation of Solid-Liquid Flow"

January 8, 2001

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Adam Fincham
LEGI-UJF-INPG-CNRS
Grenoble, France
"Vortices and vorticity measurement in stratified and rotating fluids"

November 27, 2000

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Neil Balmforth
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of  California Santa Cruz
"Meandering of a Barotropic Jet"

November 13, 2000

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor T. Maxworthy
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Southern California
"The Role of Laboratory Experiments in Physical Oceanography"

November 6, 2000

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor William Young
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California San Diego
"Eddy Diffusivity, Self-Averaging, Pair-Correlations and Plankton Patchiness"

October 30, 2000

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. Evgeny Novikov
Institute for Nonlinear Science
University California San Diego
"Some Aspects of Turbulence Theory and Applications"

October 23, 2000

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor J.C.R. Hunt 
Department of Geological Sciences and 
Department of Space & Climate Physics, 
University College London 
"The Relative Movements and Coalescence of Small Inertial Particles in Vortices and Turbulence"

October 16, 2000

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor W.D. Smyth 
Oregon State University 
"Mixing in Turbulent Overturns: Direct Simulations and Oceanographic Observations"

October 9, 2000

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. Stan Luckhardt
Dept. of Mechanical Aerospace & Engineering/Plasma Turbulence
University California San Diego
"Boundary Plasma Physics and Surface Interaction Experiments at"

October 2, 2000

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor G.R. Tynan 
Mechanical Aerospace and Engineering Department 
University California San Diego 
"From Fusion Reactors to Planetary Atmospheres: Searching for the Cause of Reduced Turbulent Mixing and Mean Shear Flow Generation in 2D Fluids"

September 25, 2000

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Yuji Hattori 
Kyushu Institute of Technology (Japan) 
"Direct Simulation of Sound Generated by Collision of Vortex Pairs"

 

 

 

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