Event Archive

2018

March

• Diffusion and adsorption- Fundamentals and transient measurement methods

  28 March 2018, 13:00 - 14:00

  Abstract of the talk: Diffusion and adsorption of gases on solid surfaces are two important, highly correlated process steps which occur in numerous applications such as heterogeneous catalysis, gas storage processes, e.g. in shales, gas separation processes in chemical industry, host-guest systems, e.g. gas hydrates or MOF's, membrane processes, adsorption processes,...

2017

December

• ABE - A method to achieving low Internet latency and high throughput

  13 December 2017, 13:00 - 14:00

  Recently proposed active queue management mechanisms can minimise the time packets spend enqueued at a network bottleneck by deploying shallow buffers with short-term burst tolerance. However, this shallow buffering causes noticeable performance degradation in the throughput for a path delay is higher above typical intra-country levels. Using a less-aggressive backoff...

November

• A few snapshots of Environmental Fluid Mechanics: turbulence, sediments, and flow-biota interactions

  15 November 2017, 13:00 - 14:00

  Environmental Fluid Mechanics (EFM) has emerged at the interfaces of fluid mechanics, hydraulics, hydrology, oceanography, and meteorology to deal with multiple problems involving environmental fluid flows. The talk will briefly introduce EFM and outline the typical problems addressed by this fairly new discipline. Then, a few ‘snapshots’ of EFM will...

July

• External Hazard Factors: a new challenge for Safety Science

  19 July 2017, 15:00 - 16:00

  by Professor Valerio Cozzani, University of Bologna, Italy

June

• Dynamics & Control of Rotors via Active Fluid Film Bearings - An Overview

  14 June 2017, 13:00 - 14:00

  Seminar talk by Ilmar Ferreira Santos, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark.

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  RV Jones Lecture - Space resources: engineering beyond planetary boundaries

  07 June 2017, 18:00 - 19:30

  Launching material into orbit is a hugely expensive business. But rather than lifting material from the bottom of the Earth's deep gravity well, perhaps we can use material that's already out there.

April

• AFBE-UK Scotland's Real Projects seminar

  27 April 2017, 18:30 - 20:00

  A group that promotes engineering as a career choice for young people is hosting a key seminar at the University of Aberdeen later this month.

• Grazing induced bifurcations: Innocent or Sinister

  12 April 2017, 12:30 - 13:30

  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...

February

• Aerodynamic Problems of Offshore Wind Farm Control

  22 February 2017, 13:00 - 14:00

  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...

January

• School of Engineering seminar: Controlling selectivity over heterogeneous catalysts

  25 January 2017, 12:30 - 13:30

  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...