Flameless Combustion: Modelling Challenges

Professor F C Christo, University of South Australia.

Hopkinson West Meeting Room, Engineering Department.

Monday 30 May 2011, 14:00-16:00

New Wine in Old Wineskins – Nuclear Safety & Fukushima

Mr Tony Roulstone, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Engineering Department.

Wednesday 04 May 2011, 17:00-18:00

Flame Dynamics During Self-Excited and Forced Combustion Oscillations

Professor Dom Santavicca, Penn State University.

Hopkinson Meeting Room, Engineering Department.

Thursday 25 February 2010, 14:15-16:15

Pulsed Detonation Engine (PDE) Research

Dr. Fred Schauer, Head, Emerging Propulsion Research, Air Force.

Lecture Room 6 Engineering Department.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 14:00-16:00

Dynamic Processes in Fundamental and Applied Turbulent Combustion

Adam M. Steinberg, German Aerospace Centre (DLR) Institute of Combustion Technology.

Lecture Room 6 Engineering Department.

Friday 02 October 2009, 10:30-11:30

Courses on High Performance Computing - 18/19th May, 1/2 June 2009

Dr Swaminathan, Department of Engineering.

Lecture Theatre 3, Engineering Department.

Monday 18 May 2009, 00:00-00:00

Recent Particle Measurements at the Center for Diesel Research

Adam Ragatz, Center for Diesel Research, University of Minnesota.

Lecture Room 5, Engineering Department.

Thursday 14 May 2009, 13:30-14:30

Advanced Design Integration for Radical Energy Efficiency

Amory B Lovins, Chairman and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute.

Lecture Room 5, Engineering Department.

Thursday 07 May 2009, 11:00-12:00

Errors in Combustion LES

Dr Andreas Kempf, Imperial College.

Hopkinson Meeting Room.

Wednesday 11 March 2009, 14:00-15:00

Shallow Flow Simulation - TBC

Alistair Borthwick - TBC.

Lecture Room 6, Engineering Department.

Thursday 05 March 2009, 13:30-14:30

TBC - Combustion

Professor David Kittelson, TBC.

Lecture Room 6, Engineering Department.

Thursday 26 February 2009, 13:30-14:30

Extinction of laminar partially premixed flames

Prof. S.K. Aggarwal, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Lecture Theatre 3, Engineering Department.

Wednesday 25 February 2009, 14:00-15:00

Measurement & Modelling of Turbulent Length Scales in Jet Flows

John Fitzpatrick, Trinity College, Dublin.

Lecture Room 6, Engineering Department.

Thursday 19 February 2009, 13:30-14:30

Engineering Institutions: Implications of the Climate Change Act"

Note unusual day

David Howarth, MP for Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Engineering Department.

Friday 06 February 2009, 13:30-14:30

Turbulent boundary layers and the quest for high Reynolds numbers

Henrik Alfredsson, Professor of Fluid Physics, Department of Mechanics, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden.

Lecture Room 6, Engineering Department.

Thursday 05 February 2009, 13:30-14:30

Solid looping cycles and clean fossil fuels

Professor John Dennis, Chemical Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Room 6, Engineering Department.

Thursday 29 January 2009, 13:30-14:30

Too much of a good thing? Bounds on stratified mixing

Dr Colm Caulfield, BP Institute.

Lecture Room 6, Engineering Department.

Thursday 22 January 2009, 13:30-14:30

High Temporal Resolution Measurements of Roadside Particle Size Distributions and Their Implications for Exposure

Dr Alison Tomlin, Leeds University.

Lecture Room 6, Engineering Department.

Thursday 15 January 2009, 13:30-14:30

The Behaviour of Inertial Particles in a Turbulent, Variable Temperature Flow >

James J Riley, PACCAR Professor of Engineering, University of Washington.

Lecture Room 6, Engineering Department.

Thursday 04 December 2008, 14:15-16:00

Environmentally Progressive Aircraft Design - tbc

Dave Paisley, Boeing.

Lecture Room 6, Engineering Department.

Thursday 20 November 2008, 14:15-16:00

Experimental Investigations of Combustion Instabilities in Gas Turbine Model Combustors

Wolfgang Meier, Deutsche Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) Stuttgart, Institut fuer Verbrennungstechnik (Institute for Combustion Technology).

Lecture Room 6, Engineering Department.

Thursday 06 November 2008, 15:15-17:00

Application of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition in Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer Problems

Professor Sanjeev Sanghi, Visiting Professor, Thermo Fluid Mech. Research Centre, University of Sussex.

Hopkinson Meeting Room, Engineering Department.

Thursday 29 May 2008, 14:15-16:00

Imaging based combustion and flow diagnostics

Dr Yang Zhang, School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester.

Lecture Room 6, Engineering Department.

Thursday 22 May 2008, 14:15-16:00

Carbon Capture for Automobiles Using Internal Combustion Rankine Cycle Engines

Professor R W Bilger, University of Sydney.

Lecture Room 6, Engineering Department.

Thursday 08 May 2008, 14:15-16:00

Grid Turbulence: How Important are Initial Conditions?

Philippe Lavoie, Flow Control Group, Imperial College London.

Lecture Room 6, Engineering Department.

Thursday 01 May 2008, 14:15-16:00

A compendium of research activities performed by the 'reactive flows and radiative transfer' group

Dr Rodolphe Vaillon, CNRS.

Hopkinson Meeting Room, Engineering Department.

Monday 28 April 2008, 14:00-16:00

Three-dimensional Floquet stability analysis of the wake in cylinder arrays

Professor Nicholas Kevlahan, McMaster University, Canada.

Lecture Room 6, Engineering Department.

Thursday 13 March 2008, 14:15-16:00