Event Archive

Grazing induced bifurcations: Innocent or Sinister

In this lecture I will examine nature of subtle phenomenon such grazing bifurcations occurring in non-smooth systems. I will start with linear oscillators undergoing impacts with secondary elastic supports, which have been studied experimentally and analytically for near-grazing conditions [1]. We discovered a narrow band of chaos close to the...

Aerodynamic Problems of Offshore Wind Farm Control

Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines (HAWTs) are increasingly being deployed in large wind farms, the largest being in many cases offshore. This seminar will discuss the aerodynamic modelling of wind flow through large wind farms and how turbine operation may be controlled in order to maximise energy capture while minimising fatigue...

School of Engineering seminar: Controlling selectivity over heterogeneous catalysts

Approximately 90% of everything we use involves a catalytic process at some part of its life cycle and more than 80% of current industrial processes established since 1980 in the chemical, petrochemical and biochemical industries, as well as in the production of polymers and in environmental protection, use catalysts. Of...

Fundamental formulation for residual stress and inhomogeneous inclusion problems

Part of Lunchtime School of Engineering Seminar Series

Multiscale Mechanics of Deformation and Failure in Materials Symposium

The EPSRC sponsored one-day symposium on "Multiscale Mechanics of Deformation and Failure in Materials" will take place on 23rd November 2016 at University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.

RV Jones Distinguished Lecture Series: The Invention of New Materials

Given by Prof. Norman Fleck FREng FRS, Cambridge University Engineering Dept.

LRF Lecture 2016 - Risk-Informed Integrity Management of Offshore Structures and Facilities

This event was fully booked

Given by Professor Michael Havbro Faber, Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark.

RV_Jones Lecture: Can Computers Change their Minds?

Presentation by Professor Alan Bundy (CBE), University of Edinburgh

Global Subsea University Alliance Workshop

The first Global Subsea University Alliance (http://www.subsea-alliance.org/) workshop will be held in the University of Aberdeen on 2nd February 2016,  12 noon - 5 pm. The workshop is aligned with the Subsea Expo event (http://www.subseaexpo.com/) which will be run in Aberdeen on 3-5 February. The programme of the event is given...

RV Jones Lecture: Nature's Optics and our Understanding of Light

Given by Professor Sir Michael Victor Berry, FRS, Melville Wills Professor of Physics (Emeritus), University of Bristol.