Date: Thursday, November 29, 2012 3:30 – 4:30 (refreshments at 3:15) Place: RMB 323

Direct Molecular Simulation of Hypersonic Flows

Tom Schwartzentruber, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota
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Date: Thursday, November 15, 2012 3:30 – 4:30 (refreshments at 3:15) Place: RMB 323

A Filter-forcing Turbulence Model for Large Eddy Simulation Incorporating the Compressible “Poor Man’s” Navier-Stokes Equations

Joshua P. Strodtbeck, Ph.D., University of Kentucky, Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Date: Thursday, September 27, 2012 3:30 – 4:30 (refreshments at 3:15) Place: RMB 323

Fluid Structure Interaction in Biological Systems at Low Reynolds Numbers:  Towards Development of Biomimetic Devices

Arvind Santhanakrishnan, Ph.D., American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellow, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University

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Date: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 3:30 – 4:30 (refreshments at 3:15) Place: RMB 323

Aerothermal Characterization of Ceramic Matrix Composites Gas/Surface Interactions in a High Enthalpy Plasma Wind Tunnel

Dr. Francesco Panerai, Post-Doctoral Scholar, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY