Seminars

CTFM currently hosts weekly seminars with both internal and external speakers during the fall and spring semesters. The CTFM seminars are open to everyone and those interested may subscribe to the CTFM email listerserv to receive notices about this and other center activities. For Fall 2019 the seminar will take place in the Engineering Building 1 room 102D unless noted otherwise.

Fall 2019 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
August 30	John Lienhard	UH Mechanical Engineering	It all began with hydraulics
September 6	Guangzhao Zhou	UH Mechanical Engineering	Violent expansion of a rising Taylor bubble
September 27	Meng Li	UH Mechanical Engineering	Numerical Simulation of Wave-Turbulence Interaction for the Generation of Langmuir Circulations
October 11	Helge Gonnermamn	Department of Earth Science, Rice U
October 25	Gallery of Fluid Motion competition
November 15	TBD

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Spring 2019 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
February 1	Gemunu Gunaratne	UH Physics	Robust Modes in Hydrodynamic Flows
February 8	Nima Mirzaeian	UH Technology	Particle-laden exchange flows in ducts
February 15	Srinath Madasu	Halliburton	System of Systems (SOS) Hybrid Physics-based Data Driven Multi-Scale Modeling and Optimization
February 22	Vladimir Yushutin	UH Mathematics	Numerical simulation of lateral phase separation in cell membranes
March 1	Sai Prabhath Katchi	UH Mechanical Engineering	Computational Modelling of Soft Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication
March 8	Visualization day	HPE DSI	Register here
March 22	Bernhard Rappengluck	UH Earth and Atmospheric Science	The Planetary Boundary Layer and Urban Air Quality
April 5	Firat Testik	UTSA Civil and Environmental Engineering	Non-cohesive Sediment Gravity Currents
April 12	Nayoung Park	UH Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering	Rheology of model colloids with polymer-mediated attractions
April 17	Sivaramakrishnan “Bala” Balachandar	University of Florida Mechanical Engineering	Next Generation Euler-Lagrange Framework That Captures Fully-Resolved Physics
April 25	Benedicte Cuenot	CERFACS, France	Large Eddy Simulation of turbulent reacting flows
April 26	Timothy Healy	ExxonMobil	Industrial Applications of a Filtered Two-Fluid Model for Gas-Solid Flows

Fall 2018 Schedule

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
September 4	Rodolfo Ostilla Monico	UH Mechanical Engineering	From vortex tubes to vortex rings: reconnections and the turbulent cascade
September 11	Guangzhao Zhou	UH Mechanical Engineering	Simplification of the Flux Function for a High-Order Gas-Kinetic Scheme
September 18	Marzieh Berenjkoub	UH Computer Science	Visual Analysis of Spatio-temporal Relations of Pairwise Attributes in Unsteady Flow
October 2	James Winkle	Rice BioSciences	Continuum Modeling of Bacterial Growth in Confined Environments: Stochastic Interactions and Nematic Ordering Under Shear Flow
October 9	Mohammad Sarraf Joshaghani	UH Civil Engineering	Stabilized Discontinuous Galerkin Formulation for Modeling Flow in Highly Heterogeneous Media with Complex Porous Structures
October 16	William Anderson	UTD Mechanical Engineering	Large-eddy simulation of environmental turbulence: Langmuir cells in the ocean and aeolian morphodynamics on Mars
October 30	Annalisa Quaini	UH Mathematics	Simulation of fluid-structure interaction problems arising in hemodynamics
November 6	Martin Huarte-Espinosa	UH CACDS	Computational models of magnetized outflows from young stellar objects, planetary nebulae and active galactic nuclei, and connections with laboratory experiments.
November 13	Taher Chegini	UH Civil Engineering	Numerical investigation of field-scale geysers in a vertical shaft

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