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The schedules for current and past seminar series held at FLAIR are listed here.
2008
These seminars are held at 11.00 am, in Room G15, Building 31, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University. Shaded are regular talks, journal article critiques, topic seminars, conference rehearsals, visiting speakers, and chairperson duties.
| Date | 1st Speaker | 2nd Speaker | Chair | ||||
| 7 April 2008 (Monday) | Hemant
Chaurasia "Instabilities in Flows Over Bluff Plates" |
Greg Sheard | |||||
| 12 May 2008 (Monday) |
Marcus Kitchen, School of Physics, Monash
University. |
Andreas Fouras | |||||
| 19 May 2008 (Monday) | Justin
Leontini "The Rayleigh stability equation, and its application to wake flows." |
Greg Sheard | |||||
| 26 May 2008 (Monday) | George
Thouas "Studies of neuronal cell growth on polymer scaffolds" |
Kerry Hourigan | |||||
| 2 June 2008 (Monday) |
Hugh Blackburn "Instability, transient growth, and local convective instability" |
Greg Sheard | |||||
| 16 June 2008 (Monday) |
Stuart Cogan CTAC2008 rehearsal |
Elham Tolouei 14th Lisbon International Symposium rehearsal |
Joine So CTAC2008 rehearsal: "Linear stability analysis of counter-rotating unequal-strength vortex pairs" |
Chuong Nguyen 14th Lisbon International Symposium and/or ICTAM2008 rehearsal |
David Lo Jacono | ||
| 23 June 2008 (Monday) |
Dr Martin King, School of Engineering, Monash University, Sunway Campus |
Steven Dubsky 14th Lisbon International Symposium rehearsal |
Andreas Fouras 14th Lisbon International Symposium rehearsal |
Greg Sheard | |||
| 30 June 2008 (Monday) |
Simon Higgins CTAC2008 rehearsal |
Andreas Fouras | |||||
| 7 July 2008 (Monday) |
Aidan Jamison CTAC2008 rehearsal: "Validity of axisymmetric assumptions when investigating pulsatile biological flows" |
Charlene Chua CTAC2008 rehearsal: "Changes in flow and wall shear stresses through arterial constrictions offset from the centre of the vessel" |
Greg Sheard CTAC2008 rehearsal: "Flow stability and wall shear stress profiles in fusiform aneurysms" |
Kris Ryan | |||
| Week beginning 14 July 2008 | No seminars: 14th Biennial Computational Techniques and Applications Conference | ||||||
| 28 July 2008 (Monday) |
Thomas Leweke "Vortex meandering and Möbius free-fall" |
Greg Sheard | |||||
| 4 August 2008 (Monday) |
David W Murphy, Georgia Tech. "Reduction of flow-induced blood damage in bileaflet mechanical heart valves through passive flow control" |
Josie Carberry | |||||
| 14 August 2008 (Thursday, 12.00pm) | Professor
David Elad, D.Sc., Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tel Aviv
University, Israel "Bio-fluid Aspects in Human Reproduction" |
Bronwyn Stewart | |||||
| 18 August 2008 (Monday) |
Patryk Burka 6th Asia-Australasian Conference on Composite Materials (ACCM-6) rehearsal: "Process analysis of adhesive bonding for composite pi-joints" |
Joe Berry ICTAM2008 poster |
Hyeok Lee ICTAM2008 poster |
Mehdi Nazarinia | |||
| 19 August (Tuesday, 12.00pm) |
Professor Morten Brons, The Technical University of
Denmark "Recent progress on the topology of vortex breakdown" |
Kerry Hourigan | |||||
| Week beginning 25 August 2008 | No seminars: The XXII International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM2008) | ||||||
| 1 September 2008 (Monday) | John Sheridan | TBA | |||||
| 8 September 2008 (Monday) | Guest Speaker (TBA) | TBA | |||||
| 15 September 2008 (Monday) | Mehdi Nazarinia | TBA | |||||
| 22 September 2008 (Monday) | Srabon MMS | TBA | |||||
| 29 September 2008 (Monday) | Guest Speaker (TBA) | TBA | |||||
| 6 October 2008 (Monday) | Jisheng Zhao | TBA | |||||
| 13 October 2008 (Monday) | Naomi Brammer | TBA | |||||
| 20 October 2008 (Monday) | Michael Sherry | TBA | |||||
| 27 October 2008 (Monday) | David Lo Jacono | TBA | |||||
| 3 November 2008 (Monday) | Kris Ryan | TBA | |||||
| 10 November 2008 (Monday) | Martin Griffith | ||||||
2007, Semester 2
These seminars are held at 12.00 pm, in Room G15, Building 31, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Monash University. Shaded are regular talks, journal article critiques, topic seminars, conference rehearsals, visiting speakers, and chairperson duties.
| Date | 1st Speaker | 2nd Speaker | Chair |
| 20 December 2007 (Thursday) |
Stephen Dubsky Journal article |
Andreas Fouras | |
| 18 December 2007 (Tuesday, 12.00pm) | "Quenching of vortex breakdown oscillation", Prof Juan M. Lopez, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Arizona State University, USA. | Hugh Blackburn | |
| 22 November 2007 (Thursday) |
Mehdi Nazarinia AFMC rehearsal: "PIV study of the vortex wake behind a translationally oscillating cylinder in a quiescent fluid" |
Wei-Leng
Tan AFMC rehearsal: "Computational fluid dynamics investigation of a cavity micro-bioreactor with perfusion" |
Hyeok Lee |
| 20 November 2007 (Tuesday, 12.00pm) |
"Fluid motion in the inner ear" by Johannes Baumgart PhD student, Institute for Aerospace Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Dresden, Germany. |
Hugh Blackburn | |
| 15 November 2007 (Thursday) |
Kris Ryan AFMC rehearsal: "Non-linear growth of short-wave instabilities in a Batchelor vortex pair" |
Joine So AFMC rehearsal: "Interaction of an unequal-strength vortex pair: Applications in the aviation industry" |
Gregory Sheard |
| 8 November 2007 (Thursday) |
Hyeok Lee |
Chuong Nguyen Blood Flow Measurement in Mouse Mesenteric Artery |
Kris Ryan |
| 1 November 2007 (Thursday) |
Mark Thompson |
Gregory Sheard | |
| 18 October 2007 (Thursday) | Stuart Cogan The vortex breakdown phenomenon in cylindrical containers: Lopez, J.M. (1995) Unsteady swirling flow in an enclosed cylinder with reflectional symmetry. Phys. Fluids 7(11), 2700-2714. |
Joine So | |
| 11 October 2007 (Thursday) | Kris Ryan Seminar: Crow Instabilities - see Crow, S.C. (1970) Stability theory for a pair of trailing vortices. AIAA J. 8(12), 2172-2179. |
Wei-Leng Tan | |
| 4 October 2007 (Thursday) | Jon
Hinwood Tsunami! Take to the hills, the hydrodynamicists are coming!! |
Chuong Nguyen | |
| 27 September 2007 (Thursday) | Joe Berry Critique of Youngren, G.K. & Acrivos, A. (1975) Stokes flow past a particle of arbitrary shape: a numerical method of solution. J. Fluid Mech. 69(2), 377-403. |
Stuart Cogan | |
| 20 September 2007 (Thursday) | George
Thouas Bioreactors: principles and practice |
Stephen Dubsky | |
| 13 September 2007 (Thursday) | Gregory
Sheard Seminar: Landau modeling and non-linear mode evolution (download presentation slides) |
Patryk Burka | |
| 6 September 2007 (Thursday) | Patryk Burka Critique of "Viscosity and Shear Rate", page 47ff, of Cook's paper "Rheological studies of the setting of water-based cements" and "Coaxial Cylinder Viscometers with Axial Motion", Chapter XI, of Oka's "Principles of Rheometry". |
Joe Berry | |
| 30 August 2007 (Thursday) | Mark
Thompson Seminar: Stability of Parallel Flows (download Betchov & Criminale reading material and presentation slides) |
Bronwyn Stewart | |
| 23 August 2007 (Thursday) | Elham Tolouei Critique of Jesty, J., Beltrami, E., Monroe, D.M., Huffman, M. & Bach, R.R. (2006) Flow Effects on Coagulation and Thrombosis. Arterioscler. Thromb. Vasc. Biol., 1729-1737. |
Owen Gould | |
| 16 August 2007 (Thursday) | Bronwyn
Stewart Rolling bodies on a wall |
Mehdi Nazarinia | |
2007, Semester 1
These seminars are held at 3.00 pm, in Room G15, Building 31, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Monash University. Talks by invited speakers are shaded.
| Date | 1st Speaker | 2nd Speaker |
| 14 June 2007 (Thursday) |
Andreas Fouras |
Owen Gould "Estuaries: Entrance Equilibrium" |
| 7 June 2007 (Thursday) | Keith Liow Yoon Soon "In silico characterization of the flow inside a spinner flask bioreactor" (abstract) |
Hayden
Marcollo
(AMOG Engineering - Invited Talk) "Latest developments in Vortex-Induced Vibration" |
| 5 June 2007 (Tuesday 12.30pm) |
Nicolas Buchmann (PhD student, University of Canterbury,
New Zealand) |
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| 31 May 2007 (Thursday) | Kerry Hourigan "A look at the basics of the generation of vorticity at a boundary and its diffusion and decay" |
Elham Tolouei "Investigation of Platelet Adhesion Using Micro PIV" |
| 24 May 2007 (Thursday) | Joine So "A review of The instability of short waves on a vortex ring, S.E. Widnall, D.B. Bliss & C.-Y. Tsai (1974)" |
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| 17 May 2007 (Thursday) | Scott Wordley "The measurement of on-road turbulence" |
Patryk Burka "Development of new ways for bonding composite structures for aircraft applications" |
| 3 May 2007 (Thursday) | Stephen Dubsky "Separating Stokes flow: Low Reynolds number (Re << 1) separated flows and relevance to bifurcated blood vessels" |
Justin Wallis "A review of: Effect of Free Stream Turbulence on the Flow Around Bluff Bodies, P.W. Bearman and T. Morel (1983)" |
| 26 April 2007 (Thursday) | Josie Carberry "Developing an investigation into platelet activation in blood flow" |
David Lo Jacono "Weak intertia effects between patterned surfaces" |
| 19 April 2007 (Thursday) | John Sheridan "Polygonal instabilities in radial hydraulic jumps from a jet on a flat surface" |
Kris Ryan |
| 5 April 2007 (Thursday) | Mehdi Nazarinia "Towards an experimental investigation of a swimming cylinder: Validation of past oscillating cylinder results" |
Tiew Sing Ting "Overcoming challenges faced by Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) modeling of laminar channel flow" |
| 29 March 2007 (Thursday) | Karlis Atvars "An experimental investigation of vortex breakdown in a swirling jet" |
Wei-Leng Tan "Modeling micro-scale bioreactor fluid dynamics and biochemistry using CFD" |
| 22 March 2007 (Thursday) | Martin Griffith "Experimental and numerical studies of blockages within a tube" |
Chuong Nguyen "Measuring wall shear stress using PIV" |
| 15 March 2007 (Thursday) | Joe Berry "Modeling cells rolling near a wall" |
Hyeok Lee "LES modeling of a tethered cylinder" |