The Fluid Mechanics seminars are held on Fridays, at 3:00pm during the academic year, in Room 306 of the Firestone Laboratory of Flight Sciences (#50 on the Caltech Campus Map).

In the schedule that follows, the abstract of each talk can be viewed by clicking on the title and a brief biographical note of the speaker can be viewed by clicking on the speaker's name.

The seminar schedule for 1998-1999 is also available.

Date	Name	Institution
First Quarter Seminars
1 October	David J. Stevenson George van Osdol Professor of Planetary Science	Geological and Planetary Sciences Caltech
	Convection in Mostly Solid Planets and Satellites
8 October	Steven W. Haan	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
	Hydrodynamic Instability Modeling for Fusion Ignition Targets
15 October	Xiaolin Zhong Associate Professor	Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dept. University of California, Los Angeles
	Receptivity of Hypersonic Boundary Layer Flows Over Blunt Bodies to Freesream Disturbances
22 October	David R. Dowling Assistant Professor	Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Michigan
	Photoacoustic Detection and Localization of Small Gas Leaks
29 October	Sanjiva Lele Associate Professor	Departments of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
	The Noise of Imperfectly-Expanded Jets: Insights from a Model Problem
5 November	William Reynolds Director, Center for Integrated Turbulence Simulations Professor	Department of Mechanical Engineering Stanford University
	Engine Simulations Great and Small
12 November	Iraj M. Kalkhoran Associate Professor	Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering, Brooklyn Polytechnic University
	Aspects of Shock Wave-Induced Vortex Breakdown
19 November	Carl H. Gibson Professor of Engineering Physics and Oceanography	Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego
	The Fluid Mechanics of Gravitational Structure Formation in the Early Universe: What is the Dark Matter?
3 December	Parviz Moin Franklin P. and Caroline M. Johnson Professor of Mechanical Engineering	Department of Mechanical Engineering and Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University
	Large Eddy Simulation of Non-Premixed Turbulent Combustion
Second Quarter Seminars
7 January	Lambertus Hesselink Professor	Department of Electrical Engineering Center for Nonlinear Optical Materials Stanford University
	High Density, High Performance Data Storage
14 January	John K. Eaton Professor	Thermosciences Division Mechanical Engineering Department Stanford University
	Reynolds Number Effects in Non-Equilibrium Turbulent Boundary Layers
21 January	Joseph Katz Professor	Department of Mechanical Engineering The Johns Hopkins University
	Addressing Subgrid Stress Modeling Issues in Large Eddy Simulations Using Conditional Sampling of HPIV Data
28 January	Brian Cantwell Professor	Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
	A New Look at Hybrid Propulsion
4 February	Paul Linden Professor	Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California at San Diego
	Particle-Laden Flows and Sewage Treatment
11 February	Balasubramanya (Balu) T. Nadiga	Earth and Environmental Sciences Los Alamos National Laboratory
	Idealized Studies of Mesoscale-Eddies in Oceans
18 February	Jeffrey W. Jacobs Associate Professor	Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Arizona
	Experiments on the Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov Instabilities
25 February	Ravi Samtaney Senior Research Associate	Applied Mathematics Caltech
	Direct Numerical Simulation of Decaying Isotropic Turbulence and Shocklet Statistics
3 March	Kyle Squires Associate Professor	Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department Arizona State University
	An Approach to Predicting Complex Turbulent Flows at High Reynolds
Third Quarter Seminars
Special Seminar 28 March 4:00 PM 306F	Parker MacCready Research Assistant Professor	School of Oceanography University of Washington
	Boundary Processes in the Ocean: Some Interesting Effects of Stratification and Rough Slopes
31 March	Eli Reshotko Kent H. Smith Professor of Engineering	Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Case Western Reserve University
	Transient Growth - A Factor in Bypass Transition
Special Seminar 7 April 11:00 AM 200G	Larry Hill	Los Alamos National Laboratories
	Product Equation-of-State Determination for Condensed-Phase Explosives
7 April	Eric Schultz Graduate Student	Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories Caltech
	Detonation Diffraction
14 April	C. Forbes Dewey Professor	Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Cell Dynamics are Influenced by Fluid Flow
21 April	Tobias Voelkl Graduate Student	Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories Caltech
	A Physical-Space Version of the Stretched-Vortex Subgrid-Stress Model for Large-Eddy Simulation
28 April	David Jeon Graduate Student	Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories Caltech
	On Cylinders Undergoing Two-Degree-of-Freedom Forced Oscillation
Special Seminar 2 May 4:00 PM 306F	Piet Moeleker Graduate Student	Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories Caltech
	Lagrangian Methods for the Tensor-Diffusivity Subgrid Model
5 May	Stefan Schlamp Graduate Student	Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories Caltech
	Laser-Induced Thermal Acoustic Velocimetry with Neural Network Data Analysis
12 May	D. Scott Stewart Professor	Theoretical and Applied Mechanics University of Illinois
	Developements in Detonation Shock Dynamics and Engineering Applications to the Design of Condensed Phase Explosive Systems
19 May	Hermann Fasel Professor	Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering The University Of Arizona
	Active Flow Control: Numerical Experiments
26 May	Katepalli R. Sreenivasan Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Physics and Applied Physics	Yale University
	Turbulent Convection at High Rayleigh Numbers

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