UC-Berkeley Fluid Mechanics Seminar Series
Fall Semester 2009
Mondays 12:00-1:00
3110 Etcheverry (unless otherwise noted)
September 14: Omer Savas, Mechanical Engineering, UC-Berkeley
"Vortex Filament Dynamics"
September 21: Michael Lamb, Geological and Planetary Sciences,
California Institute of Technology
"Dynamics and deposits of plunging river
plumes"
Location: 406
Davis Hall
September 28: Ed Knobloch, Physics, UC-Berkeley
"Convectons"
Location: 406
Davis Hall
October 5: Andrew Szeri, Mechanical Engineering, UC-Berkeley
"Cavitation bubble dynamics in the vicinity of
kidney stones being destroyed by shock wave lithotripsy
October 12: Ronald Yeung, Mechanical Engineering, UC-Berkeley
"Separated-Flow Modeling and Slender-Ship
Hydrodynamics"
October 19: Phil Marcus, Mechanical Engineering, UC-Berkeley
"3D Vortices: New ways of observing them
on Jupiter and what observations say about Jupiter's long-term
climate variability"
October 26: Vitaliy Rayz, Department of Radiology, UC-San
Francisco
"Hemodynamics in cerebral aneurysms:
Patient-specific CFD modeling"
November 2: Susan Muller, Chemical Engineering, UC-Berkeley
"Using microfluidics to control DNA conformation for
genotyping, sorting and analysis"
November 9: Gianlucca Iaccarino, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford
University
"Uncertainty Quantification in Fluid Flow
Simulations"
November 16: Claus-Dieter Ohl, School of Physical and Mathematical
Sciences, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore
"Cavitation-Based Microfluidics:
Stretching Cells and Bending Nanotubes"
November 30: Mark Stacey, Civil & Environmental
Engineering,
UC-Berkeley
"Turbulent mixing and biological thin
layers on the inner shelf of Monterey Bay"