Berkeley Fluids Seminar
University of California, Berkeley
Bring your lunch and enjoy learning about fluids!
Spring 2015
February 3, 2015
Patrick Huerre (Hydrodynamics Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique)
Instabilities in Shear Flows: Local versus Global Analyses
February 11, 2015
Prof Helge Andersson (Department of Energy, NTNU)
Coriolis force effects on turbulent shear flows
February 17, 2015
Daniel Lecoanet (Physics, Berkeley)
An Open-Source, Flexible, Spectral PDE Solver
February 24, 2015
Dr. Mahdi Esmaily-Moghadam (Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University)
Developing multiscale computational tools to make predictive-based improvement in clinical medicine
March 3, 2015
Dr. Lev Barash (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Dependence of fluid flows in an evaporating sessile droplet on the characteristics of the substrate
March 11, 2015
Prof. Jean Hertzberg (University of Colorado, Boulder)
From Flow Visualization to Beauty, Power, Destruction and Oddness
March 17, 2015
Dr. Eric Arobone (Stanford University)
How Symmetric is Symmetric Instability?
April 3, 2015
Dr. Alexander Tchekhovskoy (Astrophysics, Berkeley)
Getting the Most out of a Black Hole
April 8, 2015
Dr. Da Yang (UC Berkeley)
The Madden-Julian Oscillation, an atmospheric enigma
April 15, 2015
Prof. Pascale Garaud (Applied Mathematics, UC Santa Cruz)
Shear instabilities at low Peclet number
April 21, 2015
Dr. Daniel Livescu (Los Alamos National Lab)
An overview of recent results on Rayleigh-Taylor instability
April 28, 2015
Luming Wang (Mathematics, Berkeley)
May 5, 2015
Dr. Geoff Vasil (The University of Sydney)
May 12, 2015
Dr. Cédric Beaume (Imperial College London)
Transitional shear flows: computing exact coherent states in two dimensions
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)