GALCIT Fluid Mechanics Seminars
Academic Year 2000-2001
The Fluid Mechanics seminars are held on Fridays at 3:00pm 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.
The schedule of seminars for this year is given below. The abstract for each seminar can be viewed by selecting the title, and a brief biographical note on the speaker can be viewed by selecting the speaker's name.
The seminar schedules for past years are also available:| Date | Name | Institution |
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| First Quarter Seminars | ||
| 29 September |
Sannu Molder Professor |
School of Aerospace Engineering Ryerson Polytechnic University |
| Shocking Revelations | ||
| 6 October |
Iain Boyd Associate Professor |
Department of Aerospace Engineering University of Michigan |
| Modeling of Gas and Plasma Flows of Spacecraft Propulsion Systems | ||
| 13 October |
Ivan Marusic Assistant Professor |
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics University of Minnesota |
| Wall Turbulence: Attached Eddies, Packets and Scaling Issues | ||
| 20 October |
Tim Colonius Associate Professor |
Mechanical Engineering Caltech |
| Simulation, modeling, and control of flow-acoustic resonance in compressible open cavity flow | ||
| 27 October |
Ronald J. Adrian Hoeft Chair in Engineering |
Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Distribution and transport of energy in strongly inhomogeneous turbulence | ||
| 3 November |
Sutanu Sarkar Professor |
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, San Diego |
| Compressibility effects on turbulence evolution and scalar mixing in high-speed, reacting shear flows: a DNS study | ||
| 10 November |
John Kim Professor |
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, Los Angeles |
| Controlling a Linear Process in Wall-Bounded Shear Flows | ||
| 17 November | Larry Hill |
Detonation Science and Technology Group Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| The Heating of a Solid Explosive to Violent Reaction or Detonation | ||
| 1 December |
Michael Ol Graduate Student |
Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories Caltech |
| The Passage toward Stall of Nonslender Delta Wings at Low Reynolds Number | ||
| Second Quarter Seminars | ||
| 5 January |
Jerry Shan Graduate Student |
Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories Caltech |
| Mixing and isosurface geometry in turbulent transverse jets | ||
| 12 January |
Murtuza
Lokhandwalla Graduate Student |
Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories Caltech |
| Damage Mechanisms in Shock Wave Lithotripsy | ||
| 19 January |
Adam Rasheed Graduate Student |
Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories Caltech |
| Passive Hypervelocity Boundary Layer Control Using an Acoustically Absorptive Surface | ||
| 26 January |
Paul Dimotakis Professor |
Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories Caltech |
| Transition stages of Rayleigh-Taylor instability between miscible fluids | ||
| 2 February |
Hai Wang Assistant Professor |
Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Delaware |
| Combustion Kinetics of Laminar Hydrocarbon Flames | ||
| 9 February |
Ronald Larson Professor |
Chemical Engineering Department University of Michigan |
| Polymer Fluid Mechanics at the Molecular Level | ||
| 16 February |
G. M. Homsy Professor |
Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Interfacial fluid mechanics in microgeometries | ||
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Special Seminar Thursday, 3:00 pm, 119 Kerckhoff |
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| 22 February |
Michael Dickinson Associate Professor |
Department of Integrative Biology University of California, Berkeley |
| Sensory-motor integration in the flight behavior of flies | ||
| 23 February |
Michael Dickinson Associate Professor |
Department of Integrative Biology University of California, Berkeley |
| The aerodynamics of flight control in insects | ||
| 2 March |
Thomas Lundgren Professor |
Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics University of Minnesota |
| The PDF of the Velocity Difference Between Two Points in Isotropic Turbulent Flow | ||
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Thesis Defense Seminar Thursday, 3:00 pm |
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| 8 March |
Olivier Duchemin Graduate Student |
Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories Caltech |
| An Investigation of Ion Engine Erosion by Low Energy Sputtering | ||
| 9 March |
S. J.
Chapman Professor |
Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Oxford University |
| Subcritical transition to turbulence in channel flows | ||
| Third Quarter Seminars | ||
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Special Seminar with Environmental Science
and Engineering Tuesday, 4:00 pm |
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| 3 April |
Fabrice Veron |
Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of California, San Diego |
| Stability and transition of wind-driven water surfaces | ||
| 6 April |
Hassan Nagib Professor |
Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering Illinois Institute of Technology |
| The Overlap Region of Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flows and the Log-Law Versus Power-Law Debate | ||
| 13 April |
Manooch Koochesfahani Professor |
Mechanical Engineering Michigan State University |
| Boundary Layer Resolved Measurements of Unsteady Separation | ||
| 20 April |
Lavi Zuhal Graduate Student |
Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories Caltech |
| Formation and Near-field Dynamics of a Wing Tip Vortex | ||
| 27 April |
John Kessler Professor Emeritus |
Department of Physics University of Arizona |
| Dynamics of swimming bacteria and their fluid habitat | ||
| 4 May |
Paul Krueger Graduate Student |
Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories Caltech |
| The Significance of Vortex Ring Formation to Pulsatile Jet Propulsion | ||
| 11 May |
Dale Pullin Professor |
Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories Caltech |
| Quantitative models of small-scale scalar mixing | ||
| 18 May |
Zellman Warhaft Professor |
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Cornell University |
| Anisotropy and Intermittency in High Reynolds Number Turbulence | ||
| Special Wednesday Seminar | ||
| 23 May |
Heinz Herwig Professor |
Theoretical Thermodynamics Technical University Hamburg-Harburg |
| Flow and Heat Transfer in Micro-Systems: Is Everything Different or just Smaller? | ||
| 25 May |
Melany
Hunt Professor |
Mechanical Engineering Caltech |
| Liquid-Solid Flows: Collisional Interactions, R.A. Bagnold and NASA's Low Gravity Aircraft | ||
| 1 June |
Hiroshi
Higuchi Professor |
Mechanical, Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering Syracuse University |
| Vortical Flow past Axisymmetric Bluff Bodies | ||
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