GALCIT Colloquium

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Friday, January 6, 2012
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Fatigue of structures: basic concepts, cyclic behavior, numerical procedures and lifetime models
Mahaman Habibou Maitournam, Professor, Ecole Polytechnique
Friday, January 13, 2012
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Fish, Dipoles and Vortices
Eva Kanso, Associate Professor , Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering , University of Southern California
Friday, January 20, 2012
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Recent Experience Applying Advanced Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification to Spacecraft Integrated Modeling
Lee Peterson, Dr. , JPL
Friday, January 27, 2012
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Energy Exchange and Control of Unsteady Lift in Gusting Flows
David Williams, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
Friday, February 3, 2012
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Aerospace Structural Scaling and Performance Metrics
Martin Mikulas, Senior Research Fellow, National Institute of Aerospace
Friday, February 17, 2012
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Analytical & Experimental Studies on Layered Multiferroic Materials (Macro-Nano)
Greg Carman, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCLA
Friday, February 24, 2012
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Nonlinear Gravity-Capillary Wave Patterns Generated by a Slow-Moving Pressure Source
James Duncan, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland
Friday, March 2, 2012
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
3D Fluid-Structure Interaction Modeling of Wind Turbines at Full Scale
Yuri Bazilevs, Assistant Professor, Department of Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego
Friday, March 9, 2012
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Progress with Our Understanding of Rayleigh‐Taylor Driven Mixing
Malcolm Andrews, XCP‐4 Group Leader, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Friday, April 6, 2012
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Clefted Equilibrium Shapes of Superpressure Balloon Structures
Xiaowei Deng, Graduate candidate, Aeronautics, Caltech
Friday, April 13, 2012
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Recent Experience Applying Advanced Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification to Spacecraft Integrated Modeling
Lee Peterson, JPL
Friday, April 20, 2012
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Examples of Fluid-Structure Interactions in Biology
Christophe Eloy, Aix-Marseille University
Friday, April 27, 2012
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Large-eddy Simulation of Flat-plate Turbulent Boundary Layer at Large Reynolds Numbers
Michio Inoue , Graduate candidate, Aeronautics, Caltech
Friday, May 4, 2012
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Adaptive Aeroelastic Tailoring using Variable Stiffness Approaches
Paolo Ermanni, Professor, ETH Zurich
Friday, May 18, 2012
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Lessons for Bio-Inspired Design: Fluid Dynamics of Embryonic Heart
Mory Gharib, Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Bio-Inspired Engineering , Caltech
Friday, May 25, 2012
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Fluid-Structure Interaction Modeling of Spacecraft Parachutes
Tayfun Tezduyar, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Rice University
Friday, June 1, 2012
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Numerical simulation of stratified turbulence
Georgios Matheou, JPL
Friday, October 5, 2012
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Linear and Non-linear Viscoelastic Behavior of Rigid Polymers
Wolfgang Knauss, Professor Emeritus, GALCIT, Caltech
Friday, October 12, 2012
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Dynamics of Nanoscale Mechanical Devices in Fluid with Applications to Atomic and Molecular Sensing
John E. Sader, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
Friday, October 26, 2012
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Low-order Models for Control of Fluids: Balanced Models and Koopman Modes
Clarence W. Rowley, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Friday, November 2, 2012
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Bio-inspired Hierarchical Materials: Micromechanics, GPU-Based Simulation and 3D Printing
Matthew Begley, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
Friday, November 9, 2012
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Metamaterials from Rods and Pivots
Graeme Milton, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah
Friday, November 16, 2012
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Unfolding Spiral Vortex Breakdown as a Codimension-3 Global Bifurcation
Jean-Marc Chomaz, Professor, Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique (LadHyX), Ecole Polytechnique
Friday, November 30, 2012
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Swelling Structures that Bend, Buckle, Twist and Snap their way to Functionality
Douglas P. Holmes, Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Science & Mechanics, Virginia Tech
Friday, December 7, 2012
3:00 pm
101 Guggenheim Lab, Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall
Mars Entry, Descent and Landing Technology Advancements
Robert D. Braun, Professor, Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology