Seminar Series
An overview of the Group's upcoming and past (since 2013) seminars is given below. The seminars are held in the Fluid Mechanics Teaching Lab (FN037) in the Fraser Noble Building. If you would like to give a talk as part that fits within the Group's interests please contact the current seminar organizers Otto Neshamar and Wada Patella.
2018
Date/Time |
Speaker |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 21st Feb 13.00hr |
Tom Baxter (University of Aberdeen) |
North Sea Oil and Gas Transformational Technologies |
| 7th Feb 13.00hr |
Peter Hicks (University of Aberdeen) |
Gas-cushioned droplet impacts at low ambient pressures |
| 10th Jan 13.00hr |
Tamás István Józsa (University of Edinburgh) |
Skin friction reduction potential of compliant coatings |
2017
Date/Time |
Speaker |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 29th Nov 13:00hr |
Buğra Bayık (University of Aberdeen) |
Vibration based structural health monitoring in top tensioned risers |
| 24th May 13:00hr |
Heather Turnbull (University of Aberdeen) |
Fuzzy finite element model updating of a laboratory wind turbine blade for structural modification detection |
| 28th Apr 14:00hr |
Dr Orest Shardt (University of Limerick) |
Manipulation and Separation of Colloidal Particles with CO2 |
| 15th Mar 13:00hr |
Tom Baxter (University of Aberdeen) |
How to burn more oil and gas but slash emissions? Offshore power stations. |
| 1st Mar 13:00hr |
Naveed Muhammad (University of Aberdeen) |
Rheology of the biological exudates and its implications for stabilizing soil |
| 15th Feb 13:00hr |
Zaibin Lin (University of Aberdeen) |
Investigation of nonlinear wave-induced seabed response around mono-pile foundation |
2016
Date/Time |
Speaker |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 14th Dec 13:00hr |
Prof Jos Derksen (University of Aberdeen) |
Oil recovery at the nano-scale: drops sliding over solid surfaces due to shear flow |
| 7th Dec 13:00hr |
Dr Israel Osofero (University of Aberdeen) |
Behaviour and Design of Prestressed Stayed Struts |
| 23rd Nov 13:00hr |
Victoria Kurushina (University of Aberdeen) |
Vortex-induced vibrations: modification and calibration of wake oscillator |
| 09th Nov 13:00hr |
Tom Baxter (University of Aberdeen) |
Decommissioning the Sustainability Challenge |
| 12th Oct 12:30hr |
James Power (University of Aberdeen) |
Moment resisting fin-plate connections in tubular steel and composite columns |
| 28th Sep 13:30hr |
Clara Casanovas-Revilla (University of Aberdeen) |
The interaction between fishing ground gear and the seabed |
| 15th June 12:30hr |
Dr Joep van der Zanden (Un. of Twente, Netherlands) |
Turbulence and sand transport dynamics under a large-scale laboratory breaking wave |
| 1st June 12:30hr |
Prof John Nelson (University of Aberdeen)) |
Smart Journey Planning – Exploring the role of Social Media |
| 18th May 12:30hr |
Paride Nardone (TU Braunschweig) |
Surface and form resistance partitioning |
| 2nd May 11:00hr |
Dr Mario Franca (EPFL, Switzerland) |
Transport and fate of momentum, sediments and diluted species in environmental hydraulics |
| 6th Apr 12:30hr |
Gianluca Lazzaro (Università di Padova, Italy) |
Run-of-river hydropower in Alpine regions: multi-objective optimisation of the plant capacity |
| 1st Mar 12:30hr |
Brian Polagye (University of Washington, USA) |
Hydrodynamics of Cross-flow Turbines |
| 25th Feb 12:30hr |
Lorenzo Brignoli (University of Waterloo, Canada) |
The effects of aquatic vegetation growth on discharge calculation in natural watercourses: A high-resolution study featuring novel techniques |
2015
Date/Time |
Speaker |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 11th Nov 12.30hr |
Maggie Creed (University of Edinburgh) |
Water, sediment and bed morphological change |
| 15th July 12.30hr |
Sergio Maldonado (University of Edinburgh) |
Quasi-2-Layer model for sediment transport and morphological evolution |
| 10th June 12.30hr |
Dr Pietro Scandura (University of Catania, Italy) |
A numerical investigation of acceleration-skewed oscillatory flows |
| 1st June 12.30hr |
Dr Manousos Valyrakis (University of Glasgow) |
Assessing the capacity of turbulent flows to conduct geomorphic work |
| 6th May 12hr |
Hamish Biggs (University of Aberdeen) |
Flow-vegetation interactions at the large patch scale |
| 29th Apr 13.00hr |
Dr Ramon J Batalla (University of Lleida, Spain) |
River responses to damming: the case of the Ebro (N.E. Spain) |
| 22nd Apr 12.30hr |
Costas Papadopoulos (University of Aberdeen) |
Time-averaged hydrodynamic equations for mobile-bed conditions |
| 25th Mar 12.30hr |
Maria Bejar (University of Lleida, Spain) |
Impact of gravel mining on benthic invertebrate communities: linking ecological status to geomorphic disturbance |
| 11th Mar 12:30hr |
Dr Jean-Christophe Comte (University of Aberdeen) |
Modelling groundwater resources in complex hydrogeological environments: developing combined approaches for model parameterisation, calibration and verification |
| 11th Feb 12:30hr |
Prof Maurizio Righetti (University of Trento, Italy) |
The effect of biota on benthic sediment stability and its interpretation in the Shields curve |
| 28th Jan 12:30hr |
Michele Starnoni (University of Aberdeen) |
Modelling single and two-phase flow on micro-CT images with application to geological storage of CO2 |
2014
Date/Time |
Speaker |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 10th Dec 12.30hr |
Dr Amer Syed (University of Aberdeen) |
Viscoelasticity of thixotropic fluids |
| 26th Nov 12.30hr |
Dr Peter Hicks (University of Aberdeen) |
Modelling gas-cushioned droplet impacts on porous surfaces and on heated surfaces with phase change |
| 14th Nov 12.30hr |
Dr Justin Finn (University of Liverpool) |
Simulating Lagrangian sediment dynamics in the bottom boundary layer |
| 26th Sept 12:30hr |
Dr Barbara Berx (Marine Scotland Science) |
Ocean circulation in the Faroe Shetland Channel -- or "fluid dynamics with a larger bin size" |
| 11th July 12.00hr |
Mark Stewart (University of Aberdeen) |
Turbulence structure of rough-bed open-channel flow II |
| 6th June 12.00hr |
Mark Stewart (University of Aberdeen) |
Turbulence structure of rough-bed open-channel flow I |
| 21st May 12.00hr |
Dr Bernhard Statzner (CNRS, Paris) |
Bed-sediment engineering by lotic plants and animals: implications for sediment transport and morphodynamic processes |
| 18th April 12.00hr |
Dr Scott Draper (University of Western Australia) |
Stability of subsea pipelines on mobile seabeds |
| 14th Feb 13.00hr |
Prof Paul Hallet (University of Aberdeen) |
Engineering earth with biology: how plants and microorganisms in soil change its mechanical behaviour and fluid transport |
2013
Date/Time |
Speaker |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 13th Dec 13.00hr |
Dr David Vega-Maza (University of Aberdeen) |
Uncertainty budgets: an introduction |
| 29th Nov 13.00hr |
Dr Yakun Guo (Universityt of Aberdeen) |
Numerical simulation of lock-exchange flow descending a slope in open channel |
| 11th Oct 13.00hr |
Dr Peter Hicks (University of Aberdeen) |
Controlling the growth of laminar streaks in boundary layers |
| 23 Aug 13.30hr |
Julia C Boell (Un. Federal do Paraná, Brasil ) |
How do interfacial rheological properties of microemulsions, surfactants and foams affect EOR? |
| 23 Aug 13.00hr |
Daniel F Salviano (Un. Federal de São Carlos, Brasil) |
Acoustic Levitation: A novel technique to measure accurately surface tension |
| 2nd Aug 13.00hr |
Estevao Carlos & Felipe Andrade (University of Aberdeen) |
A Computational Framework for the Evolutionary Cuckoo Search Algorithm: Standard Benchmark Test-Cases and Applied Engineering Problems |
| 1st July 13.00hr |
Tomoko Shimamoto (University of Queensland) |
Updated “grab and dump” model for sediment transport under acceleration skewed waves |
| 24th May 13.00hr |
Dr Amer Syed (Imperial College) |
Non-conformal flow of CO2 in subsurface reservoirs |
| 10th May 13.00hr |
Kate Sparrow (University of Aberdeen) |
The effect of bed permeability on oscillatory boundary layer flow |
| 12th April 15.30hr |
Hamza Javar Magnier (Manchester University) |
Simulation of protein folding pathways and aggregation |
| 29th Mar 13.00hr |
Dr Ahmed H Elsheikh (University of Texas, Austin) |
Subsurface Modelling at the University of Texas in Austin |
| 19th Mar 13.00hr |
Prof Vaughan R Voller (University of Minnesota) |
Non-local sediment transport models using fractional calculus |