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Licentiate seminars

Licentiate seminars sorted by year. Follow each link for more information.

2017

Name	Title
Giandomenico Lupo	Detailed simulations of droplet evaporation
Erik Boström	Boundary Conditions for Spectral Simulations of Atmospheric Boundary Layers
Prabal Singh Negi	Boundary Layers over Wing Sections
Nicolas Offermans	Towards adaptive mesh refinement in Nek5000
Elektra Kleusberg	Wind turbine simulations using spectral elements
Lukas Schickhofer	Sound Generation and Propagation in the Human Upper Airways
Marcus Winroth	On Gas Dynamics of Exhaust Valves
Marcus Winroth	On Gas Dynamics of Exhaust Valves
Shyang Maw Lim	Flow and heat transfer in a turbocharger radial turbine

2016

Name	Title
Jacopo Canton	Numerical studies on flows with secondary motion
Erik Dijkstra	Constrained Optimization for Prediction of Posture
Alexandra Bobke	Simulations of turbulent boundary layers with suction and pressure gradients
Elias Sundström	Centrifugal compressor flow instabilities at low mass flow rate

2015

Name	Title
Walter Fornari	Suspensions of finite-size rigid spheres in different flow cases
Yang Zhou	Parametric stability analyses for fluid-loaded thin membranes
Mattias Brynjell-Rahkola	Global stability analysis of three-dimensional boundary layer flows
Ramin Imani Jajarmi
Amit Patil	Inflation Mechanics of Hyperelastic Membranes
Ugis Lacis	Nature-inspired passive flow control using various coatings and appendages

2014

Name	Title
Julie Vernet	Plasma actuators for separation control - design and application
Nicolò Fabbiane	Adaptive and model-based control in laminar boundary-layer flows
Ellinor Appelquist	Direct numerical simulations of the rotating-disk boundary-layer flow
Cai-Juan Zhan	On the behavior of motile microbes in Fluid Flow
Nasseradeen Ashwear	Vibration Frequencies as Status Indicators for Tensegrity Structures
Tomas Rosén	The influence of inertia on the rotational dynamics of spheroidal particles suspended in shear flow
Renzo Trip	An experimental study on the wake behind a rectangular forebody with variable inlet conditions
Azad Noorani	Lagrangian Particles in Turbulence and Complex Geometries
Taras Khapko	Transition to turbulence in the asymptotic suction boundary layer
Sohrab S. Sattarzadeh	Attenuation of boundary layer disturbances by means of streamwise vortices

2013

Name	Title
Iman Lashgari
Marit Berger	Modelling the early to mid-Holocene Arctic climate
Martin Söder	Numerical Investigation of Internal Combustion Engine Related Flows
Johan Fjällman	Unsteady simulations of the turbulent flow in the exhaust system of an IC-engine for optimal energy utilization
Werner Lazeroms	Explicit algebraic turbulence modelling in buoyancy-affected shear flows
Mohammad Hosseini	Stability and transition of three-dimensional boundary layers
Reza Dadfar	Active Control and Reduced-Order Modeling of Transition in Shear Flows
Sasan Sarmast

2012

Name	Title
Karl Håkansson	Orientation of elongated particles in shear and extensional flow
Enrico Deusebio	Numerical Investigation of Rotating and Stratified Turbulence
Lailai Zhu	Numerical investigation of swimming microorganisms in complex environments
Mathias Kvick	Hydrodynamic stability and turbulence in fibre suspension flows
Shintaro Imayama	Experimental study of the rotating-disk boundary-layer flow
Ylva Odemark	Wakes behind wind turbines - Studies on tip vortex evolution and stability
Athanasia Kalpakli Vester	Experimental study of turbulent flows through pipe bends

2011

Name	Title
Stevin van Wyk	Unsteadiness of blood flow in 90-degree bifurcations
Alexander Sakowitz	On the Computation of Turbulent Mixing Processes with Application to EGR in IC-Engines
Joy Klinkenberg	Stability analysis of channel flow laden with small particles.
Zeinab Pouransari	Fundamental studies of non-premixed combustion in turbulent wall jets using direct numerical simulation
Olesya Klets	Subject-specific musculoskeletal modeling of the lower extremities in persons with unilateral cerebral palsy
Shahab Shahinfar	Transitional boundary layers caused by free-stream turbulence
Amin Rasam	Explicit algebraic subgrid-scale stress and passive scalar flux modeling in large eddy simulation
Onofrio Semeraro	Feedback control and modal structures in transitional shear flows

2010

Name	Title
Fredrik Laurantzon	Flow Measuring Techniques in Steady and Pulsating Compressible Flows
Krishnagoud Manda	Finite Element Simulations of Biphasic Articular Cartilages with Localized Metal Implants
Emma Alenius	CFD of Duct Acoustics for Turbocharger Applications
Andreas Vallgren	Statistical characteristics of two-dimensional and quasigeostrophic turbulence
Tomas Muld	Analysis of Flow Structures in Wake Flows for Train Aerodynamics
Malte Kjellander	On dynamics and thermal radiation of imploding shock waves

2009

Name	Title
Florian von Stillfried	Computational studies of passive vortex generators for flow control
Johan Malm	Spectral-element simulations of separated turbulent internal flows
David Tempelmann	Stability and Receptivity of Three-Dimensional Boundary Layers
Monika Fällman	Turbulence measurements in fiber suspension flows: experimental method and results
Qiang Li	Simulations of turbulent boundary layers with heat transfer
Niklas Mellgren	Validated Modelling of Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices
Antonios Monokrousos	Optimisation and control of boundary layer flows
Robert Pettersson	Human Postures and Movements analysed through Constrained Optimization
Natalia Kosterina	Muscular force production during non-isometric contractions: Towards numerical muscle modeling
Bengt Fallenius	A new experimental setup for studies on wake flow instability and its control
Outi Tammisola	Linear stability of plane wakes and liquid jets: global and local approach

2008

Name	Title
Lars-Uve Schrader	Receptivity of Boundary Layers under Pressure Gradient
Gabriele Bellani	Velocity measurements in a fiber suspension flow: formation of a fiber network
Shervin Bagheri	Stability analysis and control design of spatially developing flows
Fredrik Hellström	Numerical computations of the unsteady flow in a radial turbine
Tobias Strömgren	Modelling of turbulent gas-particle flow

2007

Name	Title
Manindra Kaphle	Simulations of human movements through temporal discretization and optimization
Martin Byström	Optimal disturbances in boundary layer flows
Espen Åkervik	Feedback Control of Spatially Evolving Flows
Allan Carlsson	Orientation of fibres in suspensions flowing over a solid surface
Mattias Gärdsback	Rotation-Free Shell Elements for Thin-Film Structures and Simulations of Centrifugally Deployed Space Webs
Filli Nurhussen	Experimental studies on mouse slow and fast twitch muscles

2006

Name	Title
Ola Lögdberg	Vortex generators and turbulent boundary layer separation control
Ramis Örlü	Experimental study of passive scalar mixing in swirling jet flows
Peter Andrén	Development and results of the Swedish road deflection tester
Yuan Lin	Numercial modeling of dielectrophoresis
Johannes Gårdstam	Simulation of mechanical joining for automotive applications
Sofia Heintz	Muscular Forces from Static Optimization
Daniel Ahlman	A study of turbulence and scalar mixing in a wall-jet using direct numerical simulation
Linus Marstorp	Subgrid-scale modelling for large-eddy simulation invluding scalar mixing in rotating turbulent shear flows

2005

Name	Title
Veronica Eliasson	On focusing of strong shock waves
Darja Ljubimova	Numerical modelling of the human eye accommondation Numerical modelling of the human eye accommodation
Kena Inagaki	Development of methodology for analyzing helical structure of electrical cables
Erik Stålberg	A high order method for simulation of fluid flow in complex geometries
Johan Eriksson	Experimental and Numerical Studies of Nonsmooth Mechanical Systems
Marko Hyensjö	On Fibre Suspension Flow Modelling: Mechanical Fibre Flocculation and Fibre Orientation
Jordan Ko	Numerical Modelling of Highly Swirling Flows in a Cylindrical Through-Flow Hydrocyclone
Stefan Ivanell	Numerical computation of wind turbine wakes

2004

Name	Title
Carl-Ola Danielsson	Continuous Electropermutation Using Ion-Exchange Textile
Jerome Hoepffner	Control and estimation of wall-bounded flow systems
David Hammarström	A model for Simulation of Fiber Suspension Flows
Astrid Herbst	Studies of periodic excitation of a turbulent separation bubble
Davide Medici	Wind Turbine Wakes - Control and Vortex Shedding
Olof Grundestam	Development and analysis of turbulence models for flows with strong curvature and rotation
Gustaf Mårtensson	Experimental and numerical study of turbulent flow in rotating ducts
Roland Wiberg	A study of heat transfer from cylinders in turbulent flows by using thermochromic liquid crystals

2003

Name	Title
Ori Levin	Stability analysis and transition prediction of wall-bounded flows
Minh Do-Quang	Parallel Computations on Fusion welding and Floating zones
Luca Facciolo	Experimental study of rotating pipe and jet flows
Federica De Magistris	Combined shear and compression analysis using a modification of the losipescu shear test device
Timmy Sigfrids	Hot wire and PIV studies of transonic turbulent wall-bounded flows
Thomas Hällqvist	Numerical study of impinging jets with heat transfer
Erik Birgersson	Modelling of Transport Phenomena in Direct Methanol and Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
Olle Törnblom	Experimental study of the turbulent flow in a plane asymmetric diffuser

2002

Name	Title
Anders Ahlström	Simulating Dynamical Behaviour of Wind Power Structures
Claes Holmqvist	Modelling of the Pressure Distributions in Twin-Wire Blade Formers
Richard Holm	On the Fluid Mechanics of Partial Dewatering during Roll Forming in Paper Making
Arnim Brüger	Higher order methods suitable for direct numerical simulation of flows in complex geometries
Johan Ohlsson	Turbulence modeling using automated code generation applied to asymmetric diffuser flow
Jan Östlund	Flow processes in rocket engine nozzles with focus on flow separation and side loads
Aleksandar Filipovski	Co-rotational shell element for elasto-plastic, quasi-static problems
Mattias Chevalier	Adjoint Based Control and Optimization of Aerodynamic Flows
Nulifer Ipek	Modeling of Electrolytic Pickling

2001

Name	Title
Tom Wright	The non-linear dynamics of mechanical frogs and similar toys
Jens Fransson	Investigations of the asymptotic suction boundary layer
Jan Pralits	Towards optimal design of vehicles with low drag: Applications to sensitivity analysis and optimal control
Luca Brandt	Study of generation, growth and breakdown of streamwise streaks in a Blasius boundary layer
Torbjörn Nielsen	Electric arc-contact interaction in high current gasblast circuit breakers
Henrik Sandqvist	Theoretical studies of shock waves in dispersive and dissipative media
Gitte Ekdahl	A Simple Model of the Mechanics of Trombone Playing
Karl Borg	Transport of Bodies Small Compared to the Mean Free Path in Non-Uniform Gases
Franck Grégoire

2000

Name	Title
Kristian P. Angele	PIV measurements in a separating turbulent APG boundary layer
Petri Piiroinen	Passive Walking: Transition from 2D to 3D
Franck Grégoire	Automated code generation for turbulence models
Bo Johansson	Experimental study of shock wave focusing in a confined reflector
Tadahisa Terao	Direct numerical simulation of active control of turbulent channel flow
Ivan Pavlov	Diffraction of sound from a point source against screens with periodical edge profiles

1999

Name	Title
Peter Löfgren	Numerical modelling of flows with complex chemical reactions
Björn Lindgren	Development of guide-vanes for expanding corners with application in wind-tunnel design
Francois Gurniki	Electrochemical Mass Transfer in Near-wall Regions and Turbulent Flows.
Mehran Parsheh	Aspects of boundary layers, turbulence and mixing in a plane contraction with elastic guide vanes, envisaging potential application to paper manufacturing.
Ruben Wedin	Numerical studies of two-phase flows in gas evolving electrochemical applications.
Gérald Audenis	On the impingement of a plane liquid jet on the wires of a paper machine.
Ola Widlund	A Reynolds stress closure for magnetic dissipation of turbulence in liquid metals

1998

Name	Title
Naoki Yoshida	On nonlinear wave phenomena in a magnitized plasma and in a relativistic gas
Mikael Sima	CFD analysis of sugar crystallization
Stefan Wallin	Explicit algebraic turbulence models for the Reynolds stress tensor and the passive scalar flux vector
Renaud Lavalley	Experimental and Numerical investigations of thermocapillary instabilities.
Casper Hildings	Simulation of laminar and transitional separation bubbles.

1997

Name	Title
Koji Fukagata	Large eddy simulation of particle turbulent channel flows
Krister Alvelius	Large eddy simulation of homogeneous turbulence.
Jesper Adolfsson	A study of stability in autobalancing systems using multiple correction masses
Tor-Arne Grönland	A study of Hypersonic Afterbody Flow fields
Daniel Söderberg	Experimental and Theoretical studies of Plane Liquid Jets.

1996

Name	Title
Mats Fredriksson	Local Analysis of Grazing Bifurcations in impact Oscillators with Several Degrees of Freedom.

1995

Name	Title
Sima Zahrai	On modelling of dewatering in twin-wire blade foming process.
Magnus Olsson	Large Eddy Simulations of Spatially Develping Jets.
Josefina Dellby	A geometric shock dynamics approach to liquid impact.
Fredrik Wallgren	Convective mass Transfer in Electrochemistry and Physiology.
Leonard Borgström	Wakes behind the Caulks of a Disc Stack Centrifuge and their Importance for the Pressure Drop.

1994

Name	Title
Yagi Tomomi	The effects of transverse loading in the pantograph contact problem.
Henri Joona	An Inviscid-Viscous Coupling Method for 3D Transonic Separated Flows.
Elna Holmberg	Evolution of Spherical Flames in Turbulence.
E. Gravador	Phase-integral stability analysis of periodic responses in driven non-linear oscillators

1993

Name	Title
Ardeshir Hanifi	Stability Characteristics of the Supersonic Boundary Layer on a Yawed Cone.

1991

Name	Title
Phillipe Martinet	Homogenization mechanics of a magnetic liquid.

1990

Name	Title
Yohannes Ketema	On the reflection and refraction of the sound field from a point source at an infinite plane homogeneous boundary between two media in relative motion.

1988

Name	Title
Hans Ekander	Prediction of curved and rotating channel flows with an improved algebraic Reynolds stress model.
Richard Gebart	Transport mechanisms at a stable density interface - influences of vertical rigid walls.

1973

Name	Title
Olle Eklund	Konsolbalk påverkad av tidsberoende transversalkraft.
André Raab	The dynamics of finite continuous systems as synthetized from infinite elements.

1972

Name	Title
Sven Johansson	On the oscillatory normal modes of a nonviscous fluid contained in a rotating torus
Björn Odelius	On the oscillatory normal modes of a nonviscous fluid contained in a rotating torus
Lars Thor	Transformation properties and covariant form of the two-fermion wave function

1971

Name	Title
Gösta Wingårdh	Restriktioner på konstitutiva ekvationer till följd av en generaliserad objektivitetsprincip.

1965

Name	Title
Anders J Thor	The binding energy and the quadrupole moment of the deutereon according to a theory by H.A.S. Eriksson.

1964

Name	Title
Åke Linder	Generalized variational principles in classical mechanics.

1959

Name	Title
Bengt Enflo	Construction of wave equations by Eriksson's spinor formalism.