FLA Newsletter

with the latest news from FaxénLaboratoriet

No 10-11 November -99

Editor: Anders Dahlkild / ad@mech.kth.se
http://www.mech.kth.se/faxenlab/newsletter.htm

Paper manufacturers leave FLA

Assi Domän AB, Korsnäs AB, and MoDo Paper AB has announced that they will not continue their commitments to the FaxénLaboratoriet during the year 2000, i.e. the prolongation of phase 2. We hope to be able to reestablish the cooperation in the future.

Alfa Laval project running.

In November, Gustav Mårtensson will start to work full time for the FaxénLaboratoriet on the project initiated by Alfa Laval Separation AB on turbulence in rotating systems. Gustaf will continue the work that Jonas Gunnarsson started.

Kick-off of SFF Programme Multiphase Flow

A kick-off meeting of the SFF Programme Multiphase Flow will take place at Aspenäs Herrgård in Lerum on November 18-19, 1999. If you are interested in participating you should contact Ulla Lindberg Thieme, ullt@tfd.chalmers.se, as soon as possible. The link to the home pages of the SFF Programme Multiphase Flow is: http://tfd.chalmers.se/~affe/multiphase_prog/

New contact person at NUTEK

Susanne Andersson, Susanne.Andersson@nutek.se, has replaced Nils Markusson at NUTEK as contact person for FaxénLaboratoriet.

Individual study plans

Rules for individual study plans of graduate students can be found in KTH-Handbok 2, flik 26.3 , see www-address http://www.admin.kth.se/info/kth-handboken/II/26/3.html . The contents required in the study plan is described there in some detail. At the FaxénLaboratoriet study plans will be collected at each programme committee(Guidance group) meeting coordinated by the chairman of the respective programme committee. The status of the study plans are then reported on regularly by the scientific coordinator to the board in cooperation with the chairmen of the programme committees.

Seminars

November 25: Coffe seminar
Speaker: Ola Widlund, FaxénLaboratoriet

Title: Modeling magnetohydrodynamic turbulent flows in CFX.

Time and place: At 10:30 in seminar room at Teknikringen 8.

Events

November 25: FaxénLaboratoriet contract signing for the one year prolongation of phase 2.
13.00-15.00 Meeting at NUTEK for signing the contract.
December 9: FaxénLaboratoriet board meeting at KTH.
09.30 Start of meeting. After the meeting there will be a study visit to the Department of Materials Processing.

Travel plans

Ruben Wedin will leave for Grenoble on November 13 for a six months visit to the two-phase flow team at LEGI. Phil Byrne will accompany him initially to start up the electrochemical bubble evolution kit that he designed.

Travel reports

Koji Fukagata took part in and made a presentation at 1st Symposium of Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP-1) in DoubleTree Resort, Santa Barbara, California on September 12-15.

Pending examinations

Peter Löfgren, Licentiate Thesis, Electrochemical Processing, December 16, 1999

Final examinations

Koji Fukagata, Doctoral Thesis, Materials Processing, February 11, 2000