Two series of regular seminars have been given during 93/94. These and other seminars given at the department are listed below.
'Fikaseminarier' - a fluid mechanics seminar series
September 8.7truecm Sima Zahrai, Dept. of Mechanics:
On the modelling of the flow of pulp in a twin-wire blade forming
process
September 15.7truecm Barbro Klingmann, EPFL:
Transition in a boundary layer subjected to free-stream turbulence
September 22.7truecm Elna Holmberg, Dept. of Mechanics:
A fractal model for small flame kernels in a turbulent gas
September 29.7truecm Mats Nigam, Dept. of Mechanics:
Computations of pulp flow in twin-wire roll- and blade forming
processes.
October 6.7truecm Lars-Göran Sundström, Dept. of
Mechanics:
Morfologisk instabilitet i elektrokemiska system.
October 13.7truecm Erik Lindborg, Dept. of Mechanics:
Invariansformuleringar av isotrop turbulens
October 20.7truecm Jonas Nycander, Uppsala Univ.:
The dynamics of dipole vortices
October 27.7truecm Johan Westin, Dept. of Mechanics:
Experiments on the response of a laminar boundary layer to free stream
turbulence
November 3.7truecm Per Elofsson, Dept. of Mechanics:
An experimental investigation of interacting oblique waves in plane
Poiseuille flow
November 10.7truecm Erik Aurell, SU:
Toy models of turbulence in 3D and 2D
November 17.7truecm Fredrik Wallgren, Dept. of
Mechanics:
Mathematical model for bloodflow measurements with microdialysis
technique.
November 24.7truecm Fredrik Olsson, C2M2:
Numerical simulation of time-dependent viscoelastic fluid flow.
December 1.7truecm John Matsson, Dept. of Mechanics:
Channel flow instabilities induced by curvature and rotation.
January 12.7truecm Henri Joona, Dept. of Mechanics:
Inviscid/viscous coupling including shock induced separation in transonic
flow.
January 19.7truecm Mårten Levenstam, Dept. of Mechanics:
3D hydrodynamical instabilities of thermocapillary flows in a liquid
bridge
January 26.7truecm Jukka Komminaho, Dept. of Mechanics:
Parallelldatorsimulering av fullt utbildad Couetteturbulens.
February 2.7truecm Viktor Kozlov, Novosibirsk:
An experimental study of the influnce of riblets on transition.
February 9.7truecm Viktor Kozlov, Novosibirsk:
On the secondary instability in a flow over a swept wing in the presence
of roughness element.
February 16.7truecm Erik Lindborg, Dept. of Mechanics:
The possibility of measuring three-dimensional spectra of axisymmetric
turbulence.
March 2.7truecm Stellan Berlin, Dept. of Mechanics:
Numerical simulation of boundary layer transition
March 16.7truecm Dr Masuhara Matsubara, Dept. of Mechanics:
Experimental study of heat and mass transfer in a rotating channel flow.
March 23.7truecm Andrej Bakchinov, Novosibirsk & Johan Westin,
Dept. of Mechanics:
Experimental study of disturbance development in a boundary layer flow.
March 30.7truecm Peter Rogberg, Dept. of Water resources:
Deformation of line elements in 2D inviscid flow using contour
dynamics.
April 6 Dr. Alexander Kosinov, Novosibirsk:
Nonlinear wave proceses in
supersonic boundary layer laminar-turbulent transition.
April 13.7truecm Xue-Song Bai, Dept. of
Mechanics:
Modeling of turbulent combustion at low Mach numbers.
June 8.7truecm Erik Lindborg & Magnus Hallbäck, Dept. of
Mechanics:
Effects of rotation on the 
-equation
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics seminar series
September 8.7truecm Gerhard Fiedler, F88:
Measurements on a free convection loop.
September 15.7truecm Josefina Dellby, Dept. of Mechanics:
Shock dynamics
September 22.7truecm Anders Lennartsson, Dept. of Mechanics:
Inertial kinematics and canonical transformations
September 29.7truecm Per Dahlqvist, Dept. of Mechanics:
Dynamical zetafunctions for intermittent systems.
October 6.7truecm Arne Nordmark, Dept. of Mechanics:
Local mappings in non-smooth dynamical systems.
October 13.7truecm Martin Lesser, Dept. of Mechanics:
Computer Algebra.
October 20.7truecm Claes Tisell, Dept. of Machine Elements:
A systems and flow approach to dynamical systems.
Nvember 24.7truecm Jan-Åke Schweitz, Micromechanics, Uppsala
Univ.:
Micromachining and micromechanics.
December 1.7truecm Nicholas Apazidis, Dept. of Mechanics:
On converging shockwaves.
December 8.7truecm Evert Andersson, Järnvägsteknik:
Snabbtåg för befintliga spår.
January 19.7truecm Mats Gustafsson, Uppsala Univ.:
Artificial
neural networks of the 1980's - A Review.
January 26.7truecm Göran Andersson, Bertil
Berggren, Per-Anders Löf, Elkraftcentrum:
Stability issues in electric power systems.
February 2.7truecm Hanno Essén, Dept. of Mechanics:
Superconductivity for engineers.
February 9.7truecm Mats Fredriksson, Dept. of Mechanics:
Grazing Bifurcations
in a two degree of freedom oscillator.
March 2.7truecm Martin Lesser, Dept. of Mechanics:
Genetic programming.
March 16.7truecm Anders Lennartsson, Dept. of Mechanics:
Energy flow in multi body systems.
March 30.7truecm Hans Liljenström, SANS, NADA:
Complex
dynamics in a model for associative memory.
April 13.7truecm Nils-Gunnar Vågstedt, Dept. of Vehicle
Technology:
Experimental car and trailer axle cornering characteristics at
low friction conditions.
April 20.7truecm Claes Hedberg, Dept. of Mechanics:
Amplitude-phase modulation of intense acoustic waves.
June 1.7truecm Geoff Wexler, The Open University.:
Colour science since Schrödinger.
June 15.7truecm Martin Skote, T88:
Numerical simulations of air-water flow in aeration processes.
Other seminars by invited speakers
September 8.5truecm Prof. J.M. Hyun,
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology:
Some aspects of natural convection
in an enclosure under realistic conditions.
September 13 .5truecm
Prof. A. Janik, Innsbruck University:
Hertz and Wittgenstein: Models and rationality.
September 17 .5truecm
Dr R. Moser, NASA Ames Res. Center:
Direct simulation of a self-similar turbulent mixing layer.
October 4 .5truecm
Prof. K. A. Naugolnykh, N. Andreyev Acoustic Institute, Moscow:
Generation of sound and capillary waves by laser radiation.
November 18 .5truecm
Prof. O.V. Rudenko, Moscow State Univ.:
Nonlinear acoustics; Exact solutions and unsolved problems.
December 16 .5truecm
Dr. H. Bippes, DLR, Göttingen:
Experiments on the stability problem of three-dimensional
boundary layer flows.
March 28 .5truecm
Anders Dahlkild, Dept. of Mechanics:
The motion of sediment and particles on an inclined plate.
April 14 .5truecm
Dr. P. Lindstedt and T. Hulek, Imperial College, London:
Stochastic models for scalar and joint scalar-velocity statistics.
May 16 .5truecm
Michael Bradley, Umeå Universitet:
Inversa spridningstekniken i allmän relativitetsteori.
May 20 .5truecm
Per-Åge Krogstad, NTH:
Turbulent boundary layers in adverse pressure gradients.
May 27 .5truecm
Y. Guo DLR, Institute for Fluid Mechanics, Göttingen:
New approaches to the direct numerical simulation of
transitional and turbulent compressible boundary layer