Melbourne School of Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering

Research: Departmental Seminars 2012

Departmental seminars are made up of the Renowned Speaker Series (highlighted), Visiting Academic Series and PhD Confirmation Seminars.

Information regarding the speakers and topics is sent to staff and postgraduate students in the Department by email. If you want your name added to the mailing list, or would like to present a seminar, please email Professor Ivan Marusic at

Upcoming Seminars

Speaker

Date, time & venue

Prof M. Pino Martín
Aerospace Engineering Department, and University of Maryland Institute for Computer Studies, University of Maryland, USA

Descriptions of wall turbulence from DNS data.
3pm Tuesday 24th January

Brown Lecture Theatre
Level 1
Electriical & Electronic Engineering
Building 193
Parkville

 

Past Seminars

Dr Karol Miller
Intelligent Systems for Medicine Laboratory
The University of Western Australia

Real-time finite element analysis and meshless methods for computational biomechanics for medicine.
24 November 2011
Dr Stuart Warden
Director of Research, Department of Physical Therapy, Indiana University (IU), USA
Lifelong skeletal benefits of exercise during growth: an exercise in structure.
10 June 2011
Professor Joe Klewicki
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Melbourne
The scientific importance and technological challenges of high Reynolds number turbulent boundary layers.

DEAN'S SEMINAR
31 May 2011

Dr. Hugh Hunt
Senior Lecturer, Engineering, Cambridge University, UK
SPICE: Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering.

DEAN'S SEMINAR

7 April 2011
Prof. Hans G. Hornung
Clarence L. Johnson Professor of Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology, USA
Transition between regular and Mach reflection of shock waves.

MERIT FELLOWSHIP SEMINAR
1 April 2011
Dr. Shaoping Quan
Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore

Numerical simulations of deformable liquid drops and bubbles.
31 March 2011
Dr. Roy Featherstone
Fellow, Department of Information Engineering
Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science
The Australian National University
Branch-induced sparsity in rigid-body dynamics.
4 March 2011
Prof. Graham 'Gus' Nathan
Director, Centre for Energy Technology, The University of Adelaide
Thermal energy hybrids - opportunities and challenges.
23 February 2011
A/Prof. Gary Rosengarten
Head, Energy, Fluids & Environment, School of Mechanical Engineering, The University of NSW, Sydney
Using small-scale engineering to solve large-scale energy issues.
27 January 2011

Dr Mohammad Zamir Asfar
Research Fellow, NASA Glenn Research Center
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
The 'two source' structure of jet noise.

FLUID & THERMAL SCIENCES SEMINAR

10 December 2010
Professor Wolfgang Kollmann
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department
University of California, Davis, USA

Numerical simulation of vortex ring interactions.
10 November 2010
Dr Etienne Burdet
Reader in Human Robotics, Imperial College, London

Rules of Mechanical Virtual Reality and Therapeutic Games for Neurorehabilitation.
14 October 2010
Professor Dale I. Pullin
Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, California Institute of Technology, USA

Progress and problems in LES of wall-bounded flows.

13 October 2010

Professor Joe Klewicki
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Hampshire, USA

On the Hierarchical Structure of Turbulent Wall-Flows.

15 July 2010

Professor J Scott Provan
Department of Statistics and Operations Research
University of North Carolina, USA

Data Analysis on Phylogenetic Trees.

9 June 2010

Professor Ronald J. Adrian
Ira A. Fulton Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA

Physics and Compact Synthesis of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition.
TEWKSBURY SEMINAR

27 May 2010
Professor William Easson
Professor of Fluids Mechanics, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Particle Motion in Human Arteries
25 May 2010
Professor Joe Klewicki
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Hampshire, USA

von Karman's Constant from Newton's Second Law

24 February 2010