Date of the Event: September 24, 2004
TITLE: NUMERICAL METHODS FOR INCOMPRESSIBLE NEWTONIAN FLUID FLOW (No. 52) DATE: Friday, September 24th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Zhiqiang Cai, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University ABSTRACT: For incompressible Newtonian fluid flow, the primitive physical equations are the balance of momentum and the constitutive equation. This is a first-order partial differential system […]
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Date of the Event: September 17, 2004
TITLE: FLUID DYNAMICS OF THE HEART AND AORTA WITH LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICES (LVADS) (No. 55) DATE: Friday, September 17th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Karen May-Newman, Department of of Mechanical Engineering, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs) are mechanical pumps used to improve or replace the function […]
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Date of the Event: September 10, 2004
TITLE: PATTERN FORMATION AND HOPPING BEHAVIOR IN THE KURAMOTO-SIVASHINSKY EQUATION (No. 51) DATE: Friday, September 10th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Peter Blomgren, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University ABSTRACT: We report the first observations of numerical “hopping” cellular flame patterns found in computer simulations of the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation. Hopping states […]
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Date of the Event: September 3, 2004
TITLE: VOLUME-OF-FLUID (VOF) SIMULATIONS OF DROPS AND BUBBLES (No. 50) DATE: Friday, September 3rd, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Ali Nadim, School of Mathematical Sciences, Claremont Graduate University ABSTRACT: Multiphase fluid flows occur in numerous technological and environmental applications. Simulation of such flows is challenging because of presence of evolving interfaces. The […]
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Date of the Event: August 27, 2004
TITLE: MANIPULATION OF NANOSTRUCTURES WITH FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES OR PRESSURE (No. 54) DATE: Friday, August 27th, 2004 TIME: 3:30 PM LOCATION: GMCS 214 SPEAKER: Aldo Humberto Romero, Inst.Potosino De Investigacion En C Y T, San Luis Potosi, Mexico ABSTRACT: During the last few years, the creation of new nanostructures with very interesting physical/chemical properties has […]
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