The Fluid Mechanics seminars are held on Fridays, 3:00-4:00pm, 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. 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. A brief biographical note on the speaker can be viewed by selecting the speaker's name.

First Quarter 2002 | Second Quarter 2003 | Third Quarter 2003

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First Quarter 2002 Seminars

Date	Name	Institution
4 October	Amit Agrawal	Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Delaware
	Effect of Off-Source Volumetric Heat Addition on a Turbulent Jet with Application to Cumulus Clouds
11 October	Joe Katz Professor	Department of Mechanical Engineering Johns Hopkins University
	Probing of Complex Flows and Addressing Related Turbulence Modeling Issues in the Laboratory and in the Ocean
18 October	Steve Ceccio Associate Professor	Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics University of Michigan
	Hydrofoil Trailing Edge Vortex Shedding at High Reynolds Number
25 October	Carlos Pantano Post-Doctoral Scholar	Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories Caltech
	Flame Holes in Turbulent Reacting Flows
1 November	Kenneth Christensen Assistant Professor	Mechanical Engineering Department University of New Mexico
	The Structural and Statistical Character of Acceleration in Wall Turbulence
8 November	Paul Papas Senior Lecturer	School of Engineering (STI) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
	Non-premixed Jet Flame Instabilities: From Hydrodynamic to Thermo-diffusive Modes
15 November	Chris White Post-Doctoral Scholar	Department of Mechanical Engineering Stanford University
	PIV Measurements of the Structure of Drag-Reduced Turbulence and the Mechanisms of Polymer Drag Reduction
22 November	Sanjay Kumar Graduate Student	Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories Caltech
	An Experimental Study of Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability
29 November	Thanksgiving Break - No Seminar
6 December	Ivan Marusic Associate Professor	Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics University of Minnesota
	Some Perspectives on Wall Turbulence: Vortex Spatial Organization and High Reynolds Number Scaling Laws
13 December - 3 January	Winter Break - No Seminars
Second Quarter 2003 Seminars
Date	Name	Institution
10 January	Carsten Mehring Postdoctoral Scholar	Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, Irvine
	Modeling Liquid Film Injection and Atomization Processes
Special Seminar Friday 1-2PM 306 Firestone
10 January	P.R. Viswanath	Experimental Aerodynamics Division National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore
	Surface Pressure Fluctuation in Reattaching Flows and Control
17 January	John Bush Associate Professor	Department of Mathematics Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	New Structures in Free Surface Flows
24 January	Raymond Shaw Assistant Professor	Department of Physics Michigan Technological University
	Scale-Dependent Droplet Clustering in Turbulent Clouds
31 January	Garry Brown Professor	Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department Princeton University
	Fluid Mechanics for a 23000 Atmosphere, 200MW E-Beam Driven Flow for the Duplication of Flight in the Atmosphere at Mach 12
7 February	Ken Melville Professor	Scripps Institute of Oceanography University of California, San Diego
	Wave Breaking at the Ocean Surface: Fluid Dynamics in Air-Sea Interaction
14 February	Costas Pozrikidis Professor	Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, San Diego
	Boundary Conditions at Permeable Interfaces
21 February	James Allen Research Scientist	Laboratoire d'Etudes Aerodynamiques Université de Poitiers
	Instability of a Junction Vortex
28 February	Charles Williamson Professor	Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Cornell University
	Vortex Pair Dynamics and Instabilities: Wing Wakes, Counter-Rotating and Co-Rotating Vortex Pairs
7 March	Joanna Austin Graduate Student	Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories Caltech
	The Role of Instability in Detonation Propagation
7 March - 28 March	Spring Break - No Seminars
Third Quarter 2003 Seminars
4 April	Michael Holden	Calspan-University at Buffalo Research Center
	Wind Tunnel Testing from Olympic Skiers to Hypersonic Vehicles
11 April	Tait Pottebaum Graduate Student	Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories Caltech
	Wake Structure and Heat Transfer for an Oscillating Circular Cylinder in Cross-Flow
18 April	Ravi Samtaney Computational Scientist	Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Princeton University
	The Magneto-Hydrodynamic Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability
25 April	Mingming Wu Assistant Professor	Physics Department Occidental College
	On the Motion of a Single Air Bubble Rising in Water
2 May	William Young Professor	Scripps Institute of Oceanography University of California, San Diego
	Horizontal Convection and Ocean Energy Balances
9 May	Jeffrey Jacobs Associate Professor	Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Arizona
	Experiments on the Compressible and Incompressible Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability
16 May	Stefan Llewellyn Smith Assistant Professor	Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, San Diego
	Tidal Conversion
23 May	Heinz Pitsch Assistant Professor	Department of Mechanical Engineering Stanford University
	A G-Equation Formulation for Large-Eddy Simulation of Premixed Turbulent Combustion
30 May	Joseph Fernando Professor	College of Engineering and Applied Sciences Arizona State University
	Urban Fluid Mechanics: Air Circulation and Pollution Dispersion in Cities

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