Seminars are held in the Fluid Mechanics Teaching Lab (FN037) in the Fraser Noble Building, unless specified otherwise.
2014:
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Venue |
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| 14th Feb. | 13:00- |
Prof. Paul Hallet (School of Biological Sciences, UoA) |
Engineering earth with biology: how plants and microorganisms in soil change its mechanical behaviour and fluid transport |
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| 18th April | 12:00- |
Scott Draper (University of Western Australia) |
Stability of subsea pipelines on mobile seabeds |
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| 21st May | 12:00- |
Dr. Bernhard Statzner |
Bed-sediment engineering by lotic plants and animals: implications for sediment transport and morphodynamic processes |
FN3 |
| 6th June | 12:00- |
Mark Thomas Stewart (UoA) |
Turbulence structure of rough-bed open-channel flow I |
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| 11th July | 12:00- |
Mark Thomas Stewart (UoA) |
Turbulence structure of rough-bed open-channel flow II |
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| 26th Sept. | 12:30- |
Dr. Bee Berx (Marine Scotland Science) |
Ocean circulation in the Faroe Shetland Channel -- or "fluid dynamics with a larger bin size" |
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| 14th Nov. | 12:30- |
Dr. Justin Finn (University of Liverpool) |
Simulating Lagrangian sediment dynamics in the bottom boundary layer | |
| 26th Nov. | 12:30- |
Dr. Peter Hicks (UoA) |
Modelling gas-cushioned droplet impacts on porous surfaces and on heated surfaces with phase change |
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| 10th Dec. | 12:30- |
Dr. Amer Syed (UoA) |
Viscoelasticity of thixotropic fluids |
2013:
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Venue |
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| 19th Oct. 2012 | 13:00- |
Colin Whittaker (University of Canterbury) |
Landslide-generated tsunamis |
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| 19th Mar. 2013 | 13:00- | Prof. Vaughan R Voller (University of Minnesota) |
Non-local sediment transport models using fractional calculus |
FN185 |
| 29th Mar. | 13:00- |
Dr. Ahmed H Elsheikh (University of Texas, Austin) |
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| 12th April | 15:30- |
Hamza Javar Magnier (Manchester University) |
Simulation of protein folding pathways and aggregation |
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| 10th May | 13:00- |
Kate Sparrow [University of Aberdeen (UoA)] |
The effect of bed permeability on oscillatory boundary layer flow |
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| 24th May | 13:00- |
Dr. Amer Syed (Imperial College) |
Non-conformal flow of CO2 in subsurface reservoirs |
FN012 |
| 1st July | 13:00- |
Tomoko Shimamoto (University of Queensland) |
Updated “grab and dump” model for sediment transport under acceleration skewed waves |
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| 2nd Aug. | 13:00- |
Estevao Carlos, Felipe Andrade () |
A Computational Framework for the Evolutionary Cuckoo Search Algorithm: Standard Benchmark Test-Cases and Applied Engineering Problems |
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| 23 Aug. | 13:00- |
Daniel Figueiredo Salviano |
Acoustic Levitation: A novel technique to measure accurately surface tension |
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Julia C Boell |
How do interfacial rheological properties of microemulsions, surfactants and foams affect EOR? |
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| 11th Oct. | 13:00- | Dr. Peter Hicks (UoA) |
Controlling the growth of laminar streaks in boundary layers |
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| 29th Nov. | 13:00- | Dr. Yakun Guo (UoA) | Numerical simulation of lock-exchange flow descending a slope in open channel | |
| 13th Dec. | 14:00- | Dr. David Vega-Maza (UoA) | Uncertainty budgets: an introduction |