The Fluid Mechanics seminars are held on Fridays, at 3:00pm during the academic year, in Room 306 of the Firestone Building (#50 on the Caltech Campus Map). In the schedule that follows, the abstract of each talk can be viewed by clicking on the title and a brief biographical note of the speaker can be viewed by clicking on the speaker's name.

First quarter

Friday, 2 October
Fokion N. Egolfopoulos, University of Southern California
Strained laminar flames: fundamentals and relevance to turbulent combustion

Friday, 9 October
Emily Brodsky, Caltech
Triggering volcanic eruptions by earthquakes

Friday, 16 October
Mitsuru Kurosaka, University of Washington
Anti-kidney vortices in transverse jets

Friday, 23 October
Peter Goldreich, Caltech
MHD tubulence

Friday, 30 October
Tim Colonius, Caltech
Artificial boundary conditions for compressible flows

Friday, 6 November
Mohammad Gharib, Caltech
Vortex-induced vibration, the final combat

Friday, 13 November
William Saric, Arizona State University
Receptivity of boundary layers to freestream sound

Friday, 20 November
Brian Farrell, Harvard
Transient and Asymptotic Stability of Time Dependent Flows

Friday, 27 November
Thanksgiving Recess

Friday, 4 December
Gregory T. Linteris, NASA, NIST
Fire in Space

Second quarter

Friday, 8 January
Chad Coulliette, Caltech
Dynamical-Systems Eyeglasses: Lagrangian Transport Using Dynamical Systems Theory

Friday, 15 January
Patrice Maheo, Caltech
Free-surface turbulent shear flows

Friday, 22 January
Paul Dimotakis, Caltech
Optical Beam Propagation through Turbulent Shear Layers and Jets

Friday, 29 January
James J. Riley, University of Washington
Further Evaluation of Subgrid-Scale Models for Non-Premixed, Turbulent Reacting Flows

Friday, 5 February -- Seminar will be in 155 Arms
Jeff Kiehl, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Simulating the Climate of the 20th and 21st Century

Friday, 12 February
Larry Armi, UCSD/SIO
Mixing and Establishment of Stratified Flow Over Topography: Vortex Dynamics in a Spatially Accelerating Shear Layer

Friday, 19 February
Anatol Roshko, Caltech
Base-pressure Drag: a Classical Aerodynamic Problem

Friday, 26 February
Ivett Leyva, Caltech
Shock detachment processes on cones in hypervelocity flows

Friday, 5 March
Hans Hornung, Caltech
Oblique shock reflections from an axis of symmetry, a new class of self-similar solutions in gasdynamics

Third quarter

Friday, 2 April
Eckart Meiburg, USC
Miscible displacements in porous media

Friday, 9 April
Costas Synolakis, USC
What can asymptotic theory tell us about tsunamis in Papua New Guinea?

Friday, 16 April
Kip Thorne, Caltech
The simulation of gravitational wave sources for LIGO

Friday, 23 April
Tom Lundgren, University of Minnesota
Generation of vorticity at a free surface

Friday, 30 April
Eric Cummings, Sandia NL
Electroosmotic microflows

Friday, 7 May
Guy Dimonte, LLNL
Rayleigh Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilites is turbulent regime

Friday, 14 May
Bassam Bamieh, UCSB
Transition to Turbulence in Wall Bounded Shear Flows; The Role of Uncertainty

Friday, 21 May
Jerrold Marsden, Caltech
Geometry, Analysis and Numerics of the Averaged Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations

Friday, 28 May
Jaywant Arakeri, Indian Institute of Science
Two Curious Phenomena: I. Bifurcation of a buoyant jet discharged horizontally II. Drop levitation by bearing action