Fluid Mechanics Seminar Series

Academic Year 1999-2000

Room 584 of Engineering Building II

3pm Mondays (refreshments at 2:45)

In the schedule that follows, the abstract of each talk can be viewed by clicking on the title. Biographical notes about the speaker can be viewed by clicking on the speaker's name.

Please e-mail any questions, corrections, or speaker suggestions to me (cgibson@ucsd.edu, 858-534-3184) or contact my secretary Bruno Tilley (fluidast@cassandra.ucsd.edu, 858-534-6029, fax 858-534-7599).

 

Summer 1999

Wednesday, August 25, noon, Canyon View:  Great Chicken/Egg Turbulence Debate.  
Chicken advocate...Tom Bewley.  Egg advocate...Carl Gibson.
Shakespearian insult kit

Fall 1999

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 Date
 Speaker
Title of Seminar
 Schedule
 Oct. 4

Oct. 8 Mahalov

  Ken Melville (SIO)  Ocean Surface Turbulence: Laboratory and Field Studies  
 11  Don Smith (UCSD-Mathematics)  Rotating Liquid Drops  
 18 Frank Talke (UCSD-MAE) An Overview of Current Mechanics Problems in Magnetic Recording Technology  
 25  Morteza Gharib (CalTech) Universal Time Scale for Vortex Ring Formation  
 Nov. 1  Pat Diamond (UCSD-Physics)  "Elasticity in Turbulence - Drag Reduction by Polymer Additives"  
 8 Robert Pinkel (UCSD/SIO)  TBA  
 15 Joe Goddard (UCSD-MAE)  Fluid mechanical aspects of granular flow 

Note: room change to 479 EB2

  
 22  Thanksgiving and APS/DFD
 
  
 29 Don Boyer (Ariz. State U./Tempe)  On the Use of Laboratory Experiments as Benchmarks for Numerical Coastal Models  
 Dec. 6   Jacqueline H. Chen (Sandia)  Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Premixed Flame Propagation  
 Dec. 8 (Wed. 1:30, 479 EBII)  Mark A. Hopkins (US Army Cold Regions Lab.)  A GRANULAR SEA ICE MODEL 

Note: time 1:30 and room change to 479 EB2

  

MAE Department Seminar List

MAE Fluid Mechanics Seminars

SIO Physical Oceanography Seminars

SIO Applied Ocean Science Seminars

GALCIT Fluid Mechanics Seminars

 (Postponed till Winter Quarter) Andrew Cook (LANL) , Large Eddy Simulation of Variable Density Flows

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