Fluid Mechanics Seminars

Academic Year 2001-2002

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June 13, 2002

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Leonhard Kleiser
Institute of Fluid Dynamics
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
"Simulation of Particle-Driven Gravity Currents"

June 10, 2002

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Don Delisi
NorthWest Research Associates, Inc.
"The difference between high and low Reynolds number vortices:  Aircraft measurements vs laboratory and numerical studies"

June 3, 2002

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Fabian Waleffe
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Department of Mathematics & Department of Engineering Physics
"Homotopy of coherent structures and nature of turbulence in shear flows"

May 20, 2002

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Derek Stretch
University of Natal, South Africa
Department of Civil Engineering
"Lagrangian mixing in stably stratified turbulence"

May 13, 2002

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Omer Savas
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Mechanical Engineering
"Experimental Flow Studies in Exact-Replica Phantoms of Atherosclerotic Carotid Bifurcations Under Steady Input Conditions"

May 6, 2002

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Feng Liu
University of California, Irvine
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
"Study of Aero-elasticity by a Coupled Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Computational Structural Dynamics (CSD) Method"

May 1, 2002

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. Silvana Cardoso
“The fluid mechanics of two-phase plumes: implications for CO2 sequestration”

April 29, 2002

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Mitsuru Tanaka
Kyoto Institute of Technology
Department of Mechanical and System Engineering
"Turbulence modification in homogeneous turbulent flows laden with small heavy particles"

April 25, 2002
* Please note this is a Thursday, not Monday

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Dimitri Papamoschou
University of California, Irvine
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
"A new approach to jet noise reduction"

April 15, 2002

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Jeffrey R. Koseff
Stanford University
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
"Following your nose the fluid mechanical way:  Chemical sensing in the marine environment"

April 8, 2002

2:15  p.m.
479 EBU-II

Shankar Mahalingam
University of California, Riverside
Department of Mechanical Engineering
"Apriori assessment of flame surface density based subgrid model for turbulent combustion of wood pyrolysis gas"

April 1, 2002

2:15  p.m.
479 EBU-II

Toshiyuki Gotoh
Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Department of Systems Engineering
"Statistical laws of turbulence studied by very high resolution DNS"

March 18, 2002

2:15  p.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. H. Miura
Research associate of National Institute for Fusion Science
Japan
“Suppression of vortical motions due to a compressibility in a decaying isotropic turbulence”

March 11, 2002

 

2:15  p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Sutanu Sarkar
University of California, San Diego
"Turbulent reacting shear flows: DNS and LES"

March 4, 2002

2:15  p.m.
479 EBU-II

Prof. Carl H. Gibson
University of California, San Diego
Departments of MAE/SIO
“Big-Bang turbulence theory: evidence and consequences”

February 25, 2002

1:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Y.C. Fung
University of California, San Diego
Department of Bioengineering
“New Faces of Biofluid Mechanics”

February 11, 2002

2:15  p.m.
479 EBU-II

Vincenzo Armenio
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile,
Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy
“Turbulent flows over complex geometry”

February 4, 2002

2:15  p.m.
479 EBU-II

Prof. Michael Norman
University of California, San Diego
Department of Physics
“Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Star Formation Regions”

January 28, 2002

2:15  p.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. S. M. Tobias
University of Leeds
United Kingdom
“Nonlinear Fast and self-killing dynamos”

January 14, 2002

2:15  p.m.
479 EBU-II

Thomas R. Bewley
University of California, San Diego
in collaboration with:  Ole Morten Aamo and Eric Lauga
“CHARACTERIZING FUNDAMENTAL PERFORMANCE AND STABILIZATIONLIMITATIONS IN FLUID-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS”

January 7, 2002

2:15  p.m.
479 EBU-II

Andrew J. Hogg
University of Bristol
United Kingdom
“Slow flows, fast flows and avalanche defence strategies”

December 10, 2001

2:15  p.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. Inagaki
Ibaraki University
“Numerical Computation on Turbulent Transport of Combined Convection Using Turbulence Models with Added Buoyant-induced Terms”

December 3, 2001

2:15  p.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. Zhou
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories
“Onset of Turbulence in Accelerated flows”

November 26, 2001

2:15  p.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. Meiron
California Institute of Technology
“Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian simulations of detonation induced shock response in Tantalum”

November 13, 2001

3:00  p.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. Britter
Cambridge University
"Flow and Dispersion in the Urban Canopy: Implications for Urban Air Quality”

November 5, 2001

2:15  p.m.
479 EBU-II

Kyle D. Squires
Arizona State University
"Investigation of inter-particle collisions in gas-solid turbulent channel flow"

October 29, 2001

2:15  p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Clinton D. Winant
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
"Cross-shelf transport and the fate of sewage discharged through an offshore ocean outfall"

October 22, 2001

1:30  p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Robert E. Shadwick
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
"Physical aspects of scaling in animal circulatory systems"

October 15, 2001

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Paul Linden
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, San Diego
"Vortex Rings and Animal Propulsion"

October 8, 2001

2:00  p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Peko Hosoi
Harvey Mudd College
"Wine Tears and Other Instabilities in Climbing Films"

September 24, 2001

2:15  p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Sergei Krasheninnikov
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department
University of California, San Diego
"Edge Plasmas Physics Issues"

 

 

 

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