View Abstracts		Fall Fluid Mechanics Seminar Details
June 5, 2000	1:30 p.m. 584 EBU-II	Professor Tsutomu Kambe Department of Physics, University of Tokyo "Is There a Markov Length in Fully Developed Turbulence?"
May 30, 2000	11:00 a.m. 479 EBU-II	Professor Gregory J. McRae Department of Chemical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Direct Treatment of the Effects of Uncertainties-- Applications in Engineering and Decision Making"
May 16, 2000	2:00 p.m. 584 EBU-II	Professor Stephen Monismith Stanford University "Turbulence in a Partially Stratified Estuary"
May 8, 2000	2:00 p.m. 584 EBU-II	Professor Thomas Bewley and Markus Hogberg University of California, San Diego "Spatially-Compact Convolution Kernels for Decentralized Control and Estimation of Transition in Plane Channel Flow"
May 1, 2000	2:00 p.m. 584 EBU-II	Professor Mingde Su Department of Architecture, MIT, Cambridge "Numerical simulation of incompressible and compressible free shear flows"
April 24, 2000	2:00 p.m. 479 EBU-II	Professor Jim McWilliams UCLA "A Quest in Search of Instabilities and Cascades of Unbalanceable Flows"
April 21, 2000	10:00 a.m. 479 EBU-II	Professor Farhang Shadman Director of NSF/SRC Research Center  "New Processes and Materials for Environmentally Benign Semiconductor Manufacturing"
April 10, 2000	2:00 p.m. 479 EBU-II	Professor Prabhu R. Nott University of California, San Diego "Normal Stresses in Particulate Suspensions"
April 3, 2000	2:00 p.m. 584 EBU-II	Professor Michael Longuet-Higgins University of California, San Diego "Vertical Jets From Standing Waves: The Bazooka Effect"
March 24, 2000	2:00 p.m. 584 EBU-II	Professor J.C.R. Hunt University College, London "Dynamics and Statistics of Vortical Eddies in Turbulence"
March 20, 2000	TBA	Dr. Vebjorn Nilsen Sandia National Laboratory "A New Stochastic Turbulence Model"
March 13, 2000	2:00 p.m. 584 EBU-II	Professor Said Elghobashi "On Accounting for the Two-Way Coupling in DNS of Particle-Laden Turbulent Flows"
March 6, 2000	2:00 p.m. 584 EBU-II	Professor Jim McWilliams "A Quest In Search of Instabilities and Cascades of Unbalanceable Flows"
February 28, 2000	2:00 p.m. 584 EBU-II	Professor Dale Pullin Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories California Institute of Technology
February 14, 2000	2:00 p.m. 584 EBU-II	Dr. Akula Venkatram Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California, Riverside "Modeling Dispersion in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer"
February 7, 2000	2:00 p.m. 584 EBU-II	Associate Professor Godfrey Mungal Mechanical Engineering Department Stanford University "Effects of Heat Release in Turbulent Diffusion Flames"
January 31, 2000	2:00 p.m. 584 EBU-II	Professor Andrew Cook Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories "On The Relationship Between Numerical Methods and Subgrid-scale Models In Simulating Turbulent Mixing"
January 24, 2000	2:00 p.m. 584 EBU-II	Dr. Peter Bradshaw Thermosciences Division Stanford University "Effect of Roughness on Turbulent Boundary Layers"
January 14, 2000	1:00 p.m.  479 EBU-II	Professor Gretar Tryggvason  Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Michigan  "Direct Numerical Simulations of Multiphase Flow"
December 13, 1999	3:30 p.m.  479 EBU-II	Professor Derek Stretch  School of Civil Engineering  University of Natal, Durban, South Africa  "Turbulence Structure and Mixing Near a Gas-Liquid Interface"
December 8, 1999	1:30 p.m.  479 EBU-II	Mark A. Hopkins  United States Army Cold Regions Lab  "A Granular Sea Ice Model"
December 6, 1999	3:00 p.m.  584 EBU-II	Dr. Jacqueline H. Chen  Sandia National Laboratory  "Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Premixed Flame Propagation"
November 29, 1999	3:00 p.m.  584 EBU-II	Professor Donald Boyer  Arizona State University  "On the Use of Laboratory Experiments as Benchmarks for Numerical Coastal Models"
November 15, 1999	3:00 p.m.  584 EBU-II	Professor Joe D. Goddard  Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,  University of California, San Diego  "Fluid Mechanical Aspects of Granular Flow"
November 8, 1999	3:00 p.m.  584 EBU-II	Professor Robert Pinkel  Scripps Institution of Oceanography  University of California, San Diego  Title TBA
November 1, 1999	3:00 p.m.  584 EBU-II	Professor Patrick Diamond  Physics Department, UC San Diego  "Elasticity in Turbulence – Drag Reduction by Polymer Additives"
October 25, 1999	3:00 p.m.  584 EBU-II	Professor Morteza Gharib  California Institute of Technology  "Universal Time Scale for Vortex Ring Formation"
October 18, 1999	3:00 p.m.  584 EBU-II	Dr. Frank Talke  Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,  University of California, San Diego  "An Overview of Current Mechanics Problems in Magnetic Recording Technology"
October 11, 1999	3:00 p.m.  584 EBU-II	Professor Donald R. Smith  Department of Applied Physics & Mathematics  University of California, San Diego  "Rotating Liquid Drops"
October 8, 1999*	1:30 p.m.  479 EBU-II	Professor Alex Mahalov  Arizona State University  "Issues of Characterization of Turbulence in the Middle Atmosphere" * Jointly sponsored with Dynamics and Controls
October 4, 1999	3:00 p.m.  584 EBU-II	Professor W. Kenneth Melville  Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego  "Ocean Surface Turbulence: Laboratory and Field Studies"
October 1, 1999*	2:00 p.m.  479 EBU-II	Dr. Thomas J.R. Hughes, Dr. Charles Taylor, Dr. Christopher K. Zarins  Stanford University  "Computational Modeling of Blood Flow" * Jointly sponsored with Mechanics and Materials Engineering

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