GALCIT Fluid Mechanics Seminars
Academic Year 2005-2006
The Fluid Mechanics seminars are held on Fridays, 3:00-4:00 pm, during the academic year, in the Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall, Room 101 Guggenheim Laboratory (#45 on the Caltech Campus Map), except as noted in the schedule. Refreshments are served in the Guggenheim Foyer following the seminar, from 4:00-4:45pm.
The schedule of seminars for this year is given below. The abstract for each seminar can be viewed by selecting the title.
Note, this Webpage is no longer being updated as of April 4, 2006, please visit the Caltech Calendar to view the abstracts and future submissions. All entries for this term can be viewed here.| Date | Speaker | Title | Institution | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 30 |
Meredith Metzger |
The Quest for the Holy Grail of Turbulence | Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah | |
| Oct 7 |
Stefan Schlamp |
Shock Wave Structure and Shock Formation in Dense Fluids | ETH-Zurich, Institute of Fluid Dynamics, Switzerland | |
| Oct 14 | Eric Petersen | Shock-Tube Techniques for Studying Ignition at Lower Temperatures | Dept of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida | |
| Oct 21 |
Noel Clemens |
The Structure of Dissipation Scales in Turbulent Gas-Phase Jet Flows | Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas, Austin | |
| Oct 28 | Russell J. Donnelly | Quantum Turbulence | Department of Physics, University of Oregon | |
| Nov 4 | No Seminar | |||
| Nov 11 | Dan Lieberman | Detonation Interaction with Sharp and Diffuse Interfaces | California Institute of Technology | |
| Nov 18 | Kiyosi Horiuti | A process for formation of multi-mode stretched spiral vortex in turbulent flows. | Tokyo Institute of Technology | |
| Dec 2 | Fred Raichlen | About Tsunamis | California Institute of Technology | |
| Dec 9-Jan 3 | Winter Break | No Seminars | ||
| Winter Quarter 2006 | ||||
| Jan 6 | Riccardo Bonazza | Interaction of a Planar Shock Wave With a Density Interface | University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
| Jan 13 | Francois Blanchette | Multiple Coalescence at Liquid Interfaces | University of Chicago | |
| Jan 20 | No seminar | |||
| Jan 27 | Paul O'Gorman | Moisture Flux and Condensation in Turbulent Flows | California Institute of Technology | |
| Feb 3 | Stuart Laurence | Proximal Bodies in Hypersonic Flow | California Institute of Technology | |
| Feb 10 | Ioannis Mikellides | Numerical Simulations of the Hollow Cathode: Plasma and Neutral Gas in 2-D Axisymmetric Geometry | JPL | |
| Feb 17 | No seminar | |||
| Feb 24 | Peter Lissaman | From the Birds: The Influence of Avian on Mechanical Flight and Energy Extraction from the Winds | Da Vinci Ventures | |
| Mar 3 | No Seminar | Northrup Grumman Day at GALCIT | ||
| Mar 10 | Jonathan Freund | A quiet free shear flow | UIUC | |
| Spring Quarter 2006 | ||||
| Mar 31 | >Carlos Pantano | Using Large Scale Simulation to Understand and Predict Complex Flows | ||
| Apr 7 | Marc Day | Exploring Lean Premixed Turbulent Combustion | ||
| Apr 14 | Mark Short | Detonation Structure and Stability for Multi-step Reaction Mechanisms and Generalized Equations of State | ||
| Apr 21 | Jim Hermanson | Structure and Emissions of Strongly Pulsed Turbulent Diffusion Flames in Normal- and Microgravity | ||
| Apr 28 | Tomasz Plewa | Detonating Failed Deflagrations of Type Ia Supernovae | ||
| May 5 | No seminar | |||
| May 12 | Dick Hallion | GALCIT and the Evolution of Flight: How Caltech Transformed Global Aeronautics and the Drive into Space | ||
| May 19 | TBA | |||
| May 26 | Kevin Parkin | TBA | ||