GALCIT Fluid Mechanics Seminars
Academic Year 2001-2002
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 |
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| 5 October |
Alexei Khokhlov Professor |
Laboratory for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC. |
| Numerical simulations of a deflagration-to-detonation transition in gaseous systems. | ||
| 12 October |
Tom Bewley Professor |
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, San Diego |
| Riccati and Adjoint: Essential tools in the analysis of transitional and turbulent flow systems | ||
| 19 October |
Chris Brennen Professor |
Mechanical Engineering Caltech |
| Injection of Highly Supersaturated Oxygen Solutions Without Nucleation | ||
| 26 October |
Juan Lasheras Professor |
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, San Diego |
| The Role of the Hemodynamic Stresses in the Enlargement Rate of Arterial Aneurysms | ||
| 2 November |
Carl Meinhart Associate Professor |
Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Analysis of Microscale Transport for BioMEMS | ||
| 9 November |
David Goldstein Associate Professor |
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics University of Texas at Austin |
| Modeling low density gas flows on Jupiter's moon Io. | ||
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Special Seminar: Klein Memorial Lecture Thursday, 4:30-5:30 pm |
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| 29 November |
Robert Liebeck Professor |
MIT / Boeing |
| Design of the Blended-Wing-Body Subsonic Transport | ||
| 30 November |
Graham Candler Professor |
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics University of Minnesota |
| Numerical Simulation of Plasma Aerodynamics Experiments | ||
| 7 December |
Martin Brouillette Professor |
Department of Mechanical Engineering Université de Sherbrooke |
| Shock Waves at Microscales | ||
Second Quarter Seminars |
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| 11 January |
Takao Suzuki Postdoctoral Scholar |
Department of Mechanical Engineering Caltech |
| Acoustic wave propagation in transversely sheared flows. | ||
| 18 January |
Sandip Ghosal Associate Professor |
Department of Mechanical Engineering Northwestern University |
| Electroosmotic flow and zone broadening in microfluidic channels of variable cross-section and wall charge | ||
| 25 January |
Norbert Peters Professor |
Department of Mechanical Engineering Stanford University |
| Modification of the turbulent burning velocity by gas expansion. | ||
| 1 February |
Pino Martin Professor |
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department Princeton University |
| Exploratory Studies of Turbulence/Chemistry Interaction in Hypersonic Flows | ||
| 8 February |
Gary Leal Professor |
Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Flow-Induced Coalescence | ||
| 15 February |
Monika Nitsche Assistant Professor |
Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of New Mexico |
| On the onset of chaos in vortex sheet flow | ||
| 22 February |
Stephen B. Pope Professor |
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department Cornell University |
| Fluid Particle Acceleration and the Modelling of Turbulent Flows | ||
| 1 March |
Stephen Davis Professor |
Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics Northwestern University |
| Contact Line Dynamics | ||
| 8 March |
Ellen Longmire Associate Professor |
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics University of Minnesota |
| Pinch-off and Coalescence in Liquid/Liquid Mixtures with Surface Tension | ||
Third Quarter Seminars |
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| 5 April |
Charles Meneveau Professor |
Department of Mechanical Engineering The Johns Hopkins University |
| Turbulent deformations: Dynamics and statistics of velocity gradients in the inertial range of turbulence. | ||
| 12 April |
P. Dimotakis
Professor |
Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories CALTECH |
| Laboratory and Computer Experiments on Turbulent Mixing | ||
| 19 April |
H. Nagib
Professor |
Mechanical, Materials & Aerospace Engineering Department Illinois Institute of Technology |
| Active Control of Separation | ||
| 26 April |
Leonhard Kleiser Professor |
Institute of Fluid Dynamics
ETH Zurich |
| Simulation of 2-D and 3-D Flow over a Forward-Facing Step | ||
| 3 May |
Min S. Chong
Associate Professor |
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Department
University of Melbourne |
| High Reynolds number turbulent boundary layers - mean flow scaling | ||
| 10 May |
J. C. McWilliams
Professor |
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
UCLA |
| Evolution of some Fluid Dynamical Paradigms about the Oceanic General Circulation | ||
| 17 May |
Joe Klewicki
Professor |
Mechanical Engineering
University of Utah |
| Scale Separation Effects in the Wall Layer of the High Reynolds Number Turbulent Boundary Layer | ||
| 24 May |
Antony Beris
Professor |
Chemical Engineering
University of Delaware |
| Direct Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Viscoelastic Channel Flow: Towards a Better Understanding of Drag Reduction | ||
| 31 May |
Laurent Mydlarski
Assistant Professor |
Department of Mechanical Engineering
McGill University |
| Mixed velocity-passive scalar statistics in high-Reynolds-number turbulence | ||
| 10 June |
Lars Lading
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Sensor Technology Center
Denmark |
| Integrated optics for fluid diagnostics: What is possible and what is economically feasible? | ||
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