Fluid Mechanics Seminars

Academic Year 2002-2003

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June 2, 2003

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Ann R. Karagozian
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
Experiments and Simulations of Controlled Transverse Jets

May 19, 2003

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Paul A. Libby
Professor (Emeritus) of Fluid Mechanics
University
of California San Diego
THE INFLUENCE OF A THERMALLY ACTIVE WALL ON PREMIXED TURBULENT COMBUSTION

May 12, 2003

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Indrek S. Wichman
Michigan State University

Fluid Dynamics in Combusting Flows: Some New Results for Old Problems

May 5, 2003

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Vedha Nayagam
National Center
for Microgravity Research
NASA Glenn Research Center

Pattern Formation in Diffusion Flames Embedded in von Karman Swirling Flows

April 29, 2003

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Stefan Llewellyn Smith
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University
of California, San Diego
Tidal conversion

April 15, 2003

2:00 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Douglas MacMartin
Senior Research Fellow
California Institute of Technology
“Dynamics and Control of Shock Motion in a Near-Isentropic Inlet”

April 14, 2003

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor J.D. Goddard
University
of California, San Diego

(Non)Faraday Patterns on Vibrated Granular Layers

 

March 17, 2003

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Oleg Schilling
University
of California

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Subgrid Scale Dynamics and Simplified Two-Point Closure Modeling of Rayleigh-Taylor Turbulence and Mixing”

March 10, 2003

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Bud Homsy
University of California, Santa Barbara

“Novel Marangoni Flows”

March 3, 2003

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Mohamed Gad-el-Hak
Virginia Commonwealth University

Flow physics in Microdevices

February 24, 2003

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Kambiz Vafai
University
of California, Riverside

Modeling of the Diffusion Process as related to Stroke Imaging

February 21, 2003

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Anutosh Moitra
Boeing Commercial Airplane

Issues in 2-D High-Lift CFD Analysis: A Review

 

February 14, 2003

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Shihe Xin
LIMSI-CNRS, France

Stability analysis of natural convection flow in cavities

February 10, 2003

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Paul Rightley
Los Alamos National Laboratory

“The evolution of shock-accelerated gaseous density interfaces and other fluid mechanical studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory”

February 3, 2003

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Alessandro Gomez
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Yale University

Gaseous and spray laminar diffusion flames interacting with toroidal vortices: inching towards turbulent combustion

January 27, 2003

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Geert Schmid-Schonbein
UCSD Bioengineering

“Biomechanics of Microcirculation in the Presence of Cell Activation: Application to Shock and Multi-organ Failure”

January 17, 2003

1:00 p.m.
479 EBU-II

David T. Leighton, Jr.
Department of Chemical Engineering
University
of Notre Dame

“Hydrodynamic Dispersion in Micro-Fluidic Geometries: Causes and Remedies”

January 13, 2003

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Kraig Winters
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
UCSD

“Stability of quasi-horizontal vortices in a strongly-stratified fluid”

November 11, 2002

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Allen Plotkin
Aerospace Engineering
San Diego State University

“Airfoil Ground Effect Revisited”

November 4, 2002

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Dan Henningson
Swedish DRA (FOI)
“Optimal control and estimation applied to three-dimensional boundary layers”

October 28, 2002

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Prof. Steven L. Ceccio
University of Michigan
“Hydrofoil Trailing Edge Vortex Shedding at High Reynolds Number”

October 21, 2002

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Donald Dabdub
University
of California, Irvine
Mathematical Modeling of Air Pollution

October 14, 2002

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Mark Blyth
East Anglia
United Kingdom
“Chaotic flow in a pulsating pipe”

October 7, 2002

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Carl Gibson
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University
of California, San Diego
“Can the Russians detect a submerged Hawaiian sewage outfall from a space satellite?”

September 30, 2002

2:15 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Paul Linden
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, San Diego
"Gravity currents: the legacy of von Karman"

 

 

 

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