Berkeley Fluids Seminar

University of California, Berkeley

Bring your lunch(have room for some seminar snacks) and enjoy learning about fluids!

Spring 2020

Due to state and campus shelter in place order, a number of the spring seminars have been postponed to a later date. Please check emails for any updates we can provide on possible seminars via Zoom.

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Predictive CFD Modeling for Industrial Fire and Suppression:
Progress and Challenges

Monday, February 3, 2020

12:00-13:00, 3110 Etcheverry Hall

Dr. Yi Wang

( FM Global, Research Division )



Outside-Department Seminar: Hosted by Prof. Bruce Buffett

Friday, February 14, 2020

TBD

Prof. Herbert E. Huppert FRS

( Institute of Theoretical Geophysics King’s College -
Currently Au. Acad. of Sci. Selby Fellow 2019 at UNSW, Sydney )



Continuum-inspired methods for modeling flowing grains

Monday, February 24, 2020

12:00-13:00, 3110 Etcheverry Hall

Prof. Ken Kamrin

( Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT )



High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Fluid and Solid Mechanics

Monday, March 2, 2020

12:00-13:00, 3110 Etcheverry Hall

Prof. Per-Olof Persson

(Department of Mathematics
University of California at Berkeley)



CANCELLED

Progress and challenges in computation of turbulent flows

Monday, March 9, 2020

12:00-13:00, 3110 Etcheverry Hall

Prof. Parviz Moin

( Department of Mechanical Engineering
Center for Turbulence Research
Stanford University )



POSTPONED

Monday, March 16, 2020

12:00-13:00, 3110 Etcheverry Hall

Prof. Simo A. Mäkiharju

( Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of California at Berkeley )



POSTPONED

How do flies find your beer?
A multi-sensory story.

Monday, March 30, 2020

12:00-13:00, 3110 Etcheverry Hall

Prof. Floris van Breugel

( Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Nevada, Reno )



POSTPONED

Monday, April 6, 2020

12:00-13:00, 3110 Etcheverry Hall

Prof. On Shun Pak

( Department of Mechanical Engineering
Santa Clara University )



POSTPONED

Monday, April 7, 2020

12:00-13:00, 3110 Etcheverry Hall

Prof. Elaine S. Oran

( Department of Aerospace Engineering
University of Maryland )



POSTPONED

Monday, April 13, 2020

12:00-13:00, 3110 Etcheverry Hall

Prof. Uros Seljak

( Department of Physics,
University of California at Berkeley )



POSTPONED

Monday, April 20, 2020

12:00-13:00, 3110 Etcheverry Hall

Dr. Benjamin Favier

( French National Centre for Scientific Research -
Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre )



POSTPONED

Monday, April 27, 2020

Prof. Blair Johnson

( Environmental and Water Resources Engineering,
The University of Texas at Austin )





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Acknowledgments

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)


© Cédric Beaume