Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, California Institute of Technology
[Fluid Mechanics Research Conference]
Tuesdays, 4:00 p.m.
Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
101 Guggenheim
Organized by Dale Pullin
2005-2006 | 2004-2005 | 2003-2004 | 2002-2003 | 2001-2002 | 2000-2001
September · October · November · December · January · February · March · April · May
[Seminars Are Announced Weekly]
The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum for students, postdoctoral scholars, visitors, and faculty to present the results of ongoing research projects. It is intended to be a relatively informal forum for presenting unfinished work and ideas about future work.
September
September 28, 2004
Scott Jackson
Detonation Initiation via Imploding Shock Waves
Vincent Wheatley
Suppression of the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability in the Presence of a Magnetic Field
October
October 5, 2004 - Special Seminar
Fenggan Zhuang
(China Aerospace Science & Technology Corp., Beijing PRC)
The Unsteady Development of the Disturbance in a Two-Dimensional Supersonic Shear Layer
October 12, 2004
Jeff Bergthorson
Experiments and Modelling of Premixed Stagnation Flames
James Faddy
Effect of Pressure Gradients on Co-rotating Vortex Merger
October 19, 2004
No Research Conference - ASCI Site Visit
October 26, 2004
Elijah Sansom
Liquid Induced Pattern Formation in the 100 nm - 1 mm Range
Richard Wirz
Primary Electron Behavior in a DC Plasma Ion Thruster
November
November 2, 2004
Anna Iwaniec Hickerson
Impedance Pump Revisited: Progress and Hang-ups
Amy Lam
Converging Cylindrical Shocks: Validation Experiments in the GALCIT 17" Shock Tube
November 9, 2004
Dan Lieberman
Characterization of a Corona Discharge Initiator Using Detonation Tube Impulse Measurements
Kazuo Sone
The Spectral-Element Simulation of Axisymmetric Impinging Jet Flow
November 16, 2004
Joint Fluid Mechanics and Applied & Computational Math -- Special Seminar
Marie Farge
(LMD-CNRS, ENS Paris)
Kai Schneider
(L3M-CNRS & CMI, Universite de Provence, Marseille)
Coherent Vortex Simulation (CVS) of Turbulent Flows: Recent Results
November 23 , 2004
No Research Conference - APS/DFD Conference
November 30 , 2004
No Research Conference - Research Review
December
December 7 , 2004
No Research Conference - Study Period
December 14 , 2004
December 21, 2004
December 28, 2004
No Research Conference - Winter Recess
January
January 4, 2005
David Jeon
Application of Vortex Generators in Bubbly Boundary Layers
Dal Mo Kang
Study of Coupling Between Combustor Pressure, Fuel/Air Mixing, and the Flame
January 11, 2005
Shannon Browne
Numerical Solution Methods for Shock and Detonation Jump Conditions
Hans Hornung
Boundary Layer Transition in Hypervelocity Flow
January 18, 2005
Chris Mouton
The Mechanisms of Tripping Between Regular and Mach Reflection in the Dual-Solution Domain
Emilio Graff
Quantitative Experimental Three-Dimensional Visualization Using DDPIV
January 25, 2005 - CANCELLED
Tony Leonard
Curvature and Torsion of Material Lines in a Chaotic Flow
Carlos Pantano
Integration and Validation of Low Numerical Dissipation Methods for Compressible Turbulent Flows with Adaptive Mesh Refinement
February
February 1, 2005
Tony Leonard
Curvature and Torsion of Material Lines in a Chaotic Flow
Carlos Pantano
Integration and Validation of Low Numerical Dissipation Methods for Compressible Turbulent Flows with Adaptive Mesh Refinement
February 8, 2005
Joseph Klamo
On the Maximum Amplitude in Vortex-Induced Vibrations: Effects of Reynolds Number and Damping
Robert Kolasinski
Sputtering Processes in Ion Thrusters
February 15, 2005
Paul Dimotakis
Mixing/Unmixing in High-Speed and Compressible Turbulent Flows
Demetri Psaltis
Optics and Fluidics
February 22, 2005
Beverley McKeon
Inertial Scaling and the Mixing Transition in Wall-Bounded Flows
March
March 1, 2005
George Matheou
Simulation of Compressible Shear Flows
Kevin Parkin
Progress on the Microwave Thermal Thruster
March 8, 2005
Michael Rubel
Choosing Initial Conditions for Maximum Repeatability in Lorenz' Equations with an Eye Toward Turbulence
Subash Sukumara-Pillai
Modeling Uncertainty in Heat Transfer: Experimental Validation
March 15, 2005
No Research Conference - Study Period
March 22, 2005
No Research Conference - Spring Recess
March 29, 2005 - Special Seminar
Sandra M. Troian, Moore Distinguished Scholar in Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech
Microfluidic Research and Engineering Laboratory
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Princeton University
Characterization of Slip Behavior at Liquid/Solid Interfaces: Influence of Liquid Ordering, Wall Roughness, and Substrate Surface Patterning
April
April 5, 2005
Ivan Bermejo Moreno
Identification of Small Scale Structures in Turbulence
Joe Shepherd
I Read the News Today - Oh, Boy....
the Federal Register, Feb 15, 2005
April 12, 2005
Manuel Lombardini
Cylindrical Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability
Michele Milano
Artificial Evolution of a Natural Insect Wing
April 19, 2005
Daniel Chung
DNS of Variable-Density Turbulence
Derek Rinderknecht
Impedance-Based Pumping at the Microscale
April 26, 2005
Arash Kheradvar
Contribution of Vortex Ring in Cardiac Diastole
Stuart Laurence
Proximal Bodies in Hypersonic Flow
May
May 3, 2005 - Special Seminar
Nicolas Ponchaut
Part I: 3DPTV: Advances and Error Analysis
Part II: Extension of Guderley's Solution for Converging Shock Waves
May 10, 2005 - Special Seminar
Jimmy Fung
Coarse Analysis of Multiscale Systems: Diffuser Flows, Charged Particle Motion, and Connections to Averaging Theory
May 17, 2005 - Special Seminar
Vincent Wheatley
On the Richymyer-Meshkov Instability in Magnetohydrodynamics
May 24, 2005 - Special Seminar
Fred Browand
University of Southern California
Ten Years of Ground Vehicle Aerodynamics: Mostly Close-Following
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