MAE DEPARTMENT SEMINARS

WINTER 1999

January 15, 1999

2:30 p.m.

5101 EBU-I

Dr. Andrzej Banaszuk, United Technologies Research Center. Linear and Nonlinear Analysis of Controlled Combustion Processes.

January 20, 1999

1:30 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Jonathan B. Freund, UCLA. A Numerical Study of Noise Mechanism in Jets.

January 27, 1999

1:30 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Alain Cartellier, Ecole National Superior d’Hydraulique de Grenoble, France. Experiments in Bubbly Flows and Modelling Issues for Dispersed Laminar Flows.

February 1, 1999

2:00 p.m.

479 EBU-II

Dr. Huajian Gao, Stanford University. Some Mechanics Problems in Nano- and Micro-Scale Thin Films.

February 10, 1999

1:30 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Paul Dimotakis, California Institute of Technology. Turbulence and Turbulent Mixing: A Progress Report.

February 12, 1999

2:00 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Professor Mark Rashid, University of California, Davis. Some Theoretical and Computational Issues in Modeling Ductile Fracture.

February 17, 1999

1:30 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. George Carnevale, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Transition from Waves to Turbulence in a Stratified Flow.

February 19, 1999

2:30 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Kaveh Ghayour, Old Dominion University. Continuous Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis for Aerodynamic Shape Optimization.

February 22, 1999

4:00 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Sanjiva Lele, Stanford University. Aircraft Wake-Vortex Hazard and its Alleviation?

February 24, 1999

1:15 p.m.

5101 EBU-I

Dr. Dan Henningson, KTH Aeronautical Research Institute of Sweden. Optimal Disturbances and Bypass Transition in Boundary Layers.

March 3, 1999

1:30 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. H. Fernando, Arizona State University. Transports and Mixing Through Stably Stratified Fluid Layers.

March 5, 1999

2:30 p.m.

5101 EBU-I

Dr. Ralph C. Smith, North Carolina State University. Modeling and Control Issues Concerning Smart Materials with Hysteresis.

March 10, 1999

1:30 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Eckart Meiburg, University of Southern California. Miscible Displacements in Porous Media.

March 12, 1999

2:00 p.m.

4307 EBU-I

Dr. Hidenori Kimura, Tokyo University. Model Set System Theory.

March 15, 1999

2:00 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Dr. Peter Pinsky, Stanford University. Design of Residual-Based Finite Element Methods for the Helmholtz Equation.

March 17, 1999

1:30 p.m.

584 EBU-II

Professor Yoshimichi Hagiwara, Kyoto Institute of Technology. Interaction Between Highly-Entangled Polymers and Coherent Structures in the Buffer Region of a Turbulent Channel Flow.

March 19, 1999

2:30 p.m.

4307 EBU-I

Dr. Peter Blossey, Cornell University. Active Control of Near-Wall Turbulent Flow.