Berkeley Fluids Seminar
University of California, Berkeley
Bring your lunch and enjoy learning about fluids!
Fall 2014
September 17, 2014
Prof. Mir Abbas Jalali (Astronomy, UC Berkeley)
Kinetic Boltzmann model of multiphase flows
September 24, 2014
Dr. Jessica Oakes (Mechanical Eng., UC Berkeley)
October 1, 2014
Nathaniel Roth (Physics, UC Berkeley)
Astrophysical radiation-hydrodynamics using Monte Carlo radiative transfer
October 22, 2014
Dr. Hadi Mohammadigoushki (Chemical & Biomolecular Eng., UC Berkeley)
Instabilities in Wormlike Micellar Solutions Sheared in Taylor-Couette cell
October 29, 2014
Prof. Tom Solomon (Physics & Astronomy, Bucknell University)
Experimental studies of reactions and front propagation in laminar fluid flows
November 5, 2014
Trevor Dolinajec (Biophysics, UC Berkeley)
Modeling of wind-initiated liberation of fungal propagules from host plant leaves
November 12, 2014
Nikola Marjanovic (Civil & Environmental Eng., UC Berkeley)
High-resolution atmospheric simulations and parameterizations for wind energy applications
November 21, 2014
Prof. Björn Hof (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
December 3, 2014
Samuel Kanner (Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley)
Validation of Implicit LES Simulation Using NACA0012 Airfoil and Low-Re Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine
December 10, 2014
Dr. Joanna Bechtel Dahl (Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley)
Observation of Asymmetric Instability of Intermediate-Reduced-Volume Vesicles in Extensional Flow
Acknowledgments
Prof. Graham Fleming (Vice Chancellor for Research, UC Berkeley)
Prof. Eliot Quataert on behalf of The Theoretical Astrophysics Center and the Astronomy Department (UC Berkeley)
Prof. Philip S. Marcus on behalf of the Mechanical Engineering Department (UC Berkeley)
Prof. Michael Manga (Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley)
Prof. Evan Variano (Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley)