MAE DEPARTMENT SEMINARS

SUMMER 1999

July 9, 1999

2:30 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Uffe Thygesen, Technical University of Denmark. Dissipation and Robustness of Stochastic Control Systems.

July 19, 1999

1 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Professor R.W. Bilger, Sydney University. Recent Progress in CMC Closure for Turbulent Jet Diffusion Flames.

July 22, 1999

2 p.m.

479 EBU-II

Dr. Chongsheng Cao, UC Irvine. Numerical Criterion for Stabilizing Steady State Solutions of the Navier-Stokes Equations.

July 30, 1999

2 p.m.

479 EBU-II

Professor Raymond de Callafon, MAE Dept., UCSD. Structural Damage Detection Using Model Based Orthonormal Functions.

August 2, 1999

2 p.m.

479 EBU-II

Dr. Jack Shlachter, Los Alamos National Laboratory. Magnetically-Driven Cylindrical Implosions on Pulsed Power Facilities at Los Alamos.

August 9, 1999

2 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Antonio Sanchez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. The Reduced Kinetic Description of Lean Premixed Combustion.

August 11, 1999

2 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Professor Ishwar K. Puri, The University of Illinois at Chicago. Investigations of Partially Premixed (Double and Triple) Flames.

August 12, 1999

2 p.m.

479 EBU-II

Dr. Paul D. Ronney, The University of Southern California. Diffusive-Thermal Instability of Counterflow Flames at Low Lewis Number.

August 16, 1999

2 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Amable Liñán, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Premixed Flames Under Strain with an Overall Reaction of Large Activation Energy.

August 18, 1999

2 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Michel Champion, Université de Poitiers. Turbulent Transport in Premixed Flames.

August 19, 1999

2 p.m.

479 EBU-II

Dr. David Howard Owens, University of Exeter, England. Predictive Iterative Learning Control Algorithms.

August 20, 1999

2 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Ken Bray, Cambridge University, England. Prediction of "Rumble" Oscillations in a Gas Turbine Combustor.

August 23, 1999

2 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Tetsuo Hiraiwa, UC San Diego. Experimental Investigation of Two-Stage Ethanol-Air Flames.

August 25, 1999

2 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Kurt O. Lund, UC San Diego. Enhanced Heat Transfer at Micro-Fiber Surfaces.

September 7, 1999

2 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Masaharu Matsubara, Tohoku University in Japan, and Dr. Fredrik Lundell, KTH in Sweden. Experiments on Wavelength Scaling and Active Control of Streaky Structures in Laminar-Turbulent Transition.

September 10, 1999

1:30 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Professor Mitsuru Tanaka, Kyoto Institute of Technology. Dynamics of Vortical Structures in Uniformly Sheared Turbulence.

September 15, 1999

2:00 p.m.

479 EBU-II

Dr. Mark L. Wilkins, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Numerical Simulation of Ceramic Armor.

September 16, 1999

1:30 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Fujihiro Hamba, University of Tokyo. Effects of Pressure Fluctuations on Turbulence Growth in Compressible Homogeneous Shear Flows.

September 17, 1999

1:30 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Professor Rainer Friedrich, Lehrstuhl F. Fluidsmechanik, TU Muenchen, Garching, Germany. Subgrid Scale Modelling of Incompressible Turbulent Shear Flows.

September 20,1999

10:30 a.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Bernard J. Geurts, University of Twente, The Netherlands. Algebraic Properties and Interacting Errors in Turbulence Modeling for Large-Eddy Simulation.