Seminars

Two series of regular seminars have been given during 94/95. These and other seminars given at the department are listed below.

'Fikaseminarier' -- a fluid mechanics seminar series Coordinatorer: T. Burden

September 21.7truecm Sima Zahrai, Dept. of Mechanics:
Numerical methods for simulation of the dewatering process in paper machines

September 28.7truecm Lars Bäuerle, Dept. of Mechanics:
Ytspänningsdriven konvektion i öppen cylindrisk behållare

October 5.7truecm Lars-Göran Sundström, Dept. of Mechanics:
Laminar natural convection in an inclined enclosure

October 19.7truecm Daniel Söderberg, Dept. of Mechanics:
Studier av stabilitet hos plana vätskestrålar

October 26.7truecm Jukka Komminaho, Dept. of Mechanics:
Numerical simulation of fully developed plane turbulent Couette flow

November 2.7truecm Petra Wikström, Dept. of Mechanics:
Measurements of temperature fluctuations and temperature dissipation in a heated cylinder wake

November 9.7truecm Stellan Berlin, Dept. of Mechanics:
Numerical simulations of disturbances in incompressible boundary layers

November 16.7truecm Mats Nigam, Dept. of Mechanics:
Analytical methods for simulation of the dewatering process in paper machines

November 30.7truecm Torbjörn Sjögren, Dept. of Mechanics:
Measurement and modelling of anisotropic dissipation and slow pressure-strain in homogeneous turbulence

December 7.7truecm Krister Alvelius, Dept. of Mechanics:
Large-Eddy Simulation in homogeneous turbulence

December 14.7truecm Ardeshir Hanifi, Dept. of Mechanics:
Nonlocal stability of compressible boundary layer

Janaury 18.7truecm V.V. Kozlov, Novosibirsk, Russia:
Laminar separation --- successes and problems

Janaury 25.7truecm Robert Tönhardt, Dept. of Mechanics:
Crystal growth with adaptive FEM

February 1*.7truecm Hasse Fredriksson, Dept. of Materials Processing:
On the mechanism of convection during a solidification process

February 8.7truecm Ben Diedrich, Luleå University:
Three-dimensional disturbances; considering starting profiles and optimal profiles in Couette and Poisuielle flow

February 15.7truecm Andrey Bakchinov, Novosibirsk, Russia:
On the flat plate boundary layer receptivity to localized disturbances of moderate amplitude

February 22.7truecm Magnus Olsson, Dept. of Mechanics:
Simulation of Axisymmetric Jet

March 8*.7truecm Bo Norman, Dept. of Pulp and Paper Chemistry and Technology:
Fluid mechanics problems within the paper forming process

March 22.7truecm Masaharu Matsubara, Dept. of Mechanics:
Visual study of boundary layer transition with free stream turbulence

April 3*.7truecm Lars Ödberg, STFI, and Tie-Qiang Li, Dept. of Paper Technology:
Studier av strömningsförlopp i fibersuspensioner med avbildande NMR

April 12.7truecm Per J Olsson, Dept. of Mechanics:
Simulation of the Flow Past Multiple Spheres

May 3*.7truecm Claes Inge, ALFA-LAVAL Separation AB:
Flow and pressure drops in a centrifugal separator

May 17.7truecm Mats Ullmar, Dept. of Pulp and Paper Chemistry and Technology:
On the evolution of roughness-induced TS waves in a flat plate boundary layer

May 24.7truecm Per Elofsson, Dept. of Mechanics:
Oblique wave transition in plane Poiseuille flow

* Seminars were organized within the Research centre for the fluid mechanics of industrial processes.

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics seminar series Coordinatorer: L. Söderholm

November 9.7truecm Claes Hedberg, Dept of Mechanics:
The effect of phase on nonlinear propagation and the one saddle point solution of Burgers' equation.

December 7 .7truecm Dr Anders Karlhede, Department of Physics, University of Stockholm:
The problem of equivalence in general relativity.

February 2.7truecm Karl-Erik Thylwe, Dept. of Mechanics:
Regge-pole analysis.

February 22, 1995 .7truecm Dr Anders Szepessy, NADA, KTH:
Viscous effects of Broadwell shocks.

5 April, 1995 .7truecm Prof. Arne Johansson, Dept of Mechanics, KTH:
Turbulence modelling for non-modelers.

26 April, 1995 .7truecm Dr Per Dahlqvist, Dept of Mechanics, KTH:
Diffusion and confusion.

May 3.7truecm Mihaela Dumitru, PUB, Bucharest:
Optics and non-linear optics study and research by computer aided training

10 May, 1995 .7truecm Dr. Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist, Observatory, Univerisity of Uppsala:
The Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets.

Other seminars by invited speakers

August 22 .7truecm Dr. Wilton W. King, Georgia Institute of Technology:
Industrial applications of mechanics.

September 7.7truecm Dr. Shigeo Kimura, Tohoku National Industrial Research Institute:
A velocitymeter for groundwater flows.

September 13 .7truecm Prof. T. Sakurai, Kyoto University:
MHD spin-down problem in a circular cylinder subject to the effect of stable stratification.

September 27, 28, 29, October 3 .7truecm Prof. P.L. Sachdev, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India:
Recent development in the theory of Burgers' and the generalized Burgers' equations.

October 6 .7truecm Prof. Tony Chen, Univ. of Arizona:
Convection in a mushy layer during directional solidification.

October 18 .7truecm Prof. Tomasz Kapitaniak, Univ. of Lodz::
Introduction to chaos.

October 19 .7truecm Prof. Tomasz Kapitaniak, Univ. of Lodz::
Control and synchronization of chaos.

October 24 .7truecm Dr. Martin Oberlack, RWTH, Aachen:
A new length-scale and dissipation tensor equation for turbulent flows.

November 8 .7truecm Dr. N. Andersson, Cardiff Univ.:
Aspects of black hole scattering.

March 17, 1995.7truecm Dr. Yuri Kachanov, Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk:
Experimental studies of 3D boundary layers instability to travelling waves at controlled disturbance conditions.

May 18.7truecm Prof. Helmut Eckelmann, Univ. Göttingen:
Properties of the laminar and transitional wake of a circular cylinder.