February 2, 2018
Prof. William K. George (Imperial College of London, UK)
“Reconsidering K41: The Kolmogorov Theory for Small Scale Turbulence”

February 9, 2018
Prof. Raymond A. Shaw (Michigan Technological University)
“How Turbulence Influences Cloud Optical Properties and Precipitation: Laboratory Studies of Turbulent Moist Rayleigh-Benard Convection”

February 16, 2018
Prof. Megan Leftwich (George Washington University)
“The Wake Structures of Rotating Airfoils”

February 23, 2018
(No Seminar)

March 2, 2018
Prof. Paulo E. Arratia (University of Pennsylvania)
“Life in Complex Fluids”

March 9, 2018
Prof. Paul Durbin (Iowa State University)
“Simulation of Turbulent Flow over Bumps: Some Experience with Data-Driven Modeling”

March 16, 2018
Prof. Rui Ni (Pennsylvania State University)
“Turbulent Multiphase Flow with Finite-Sized Deformable Bubbles”

March 19, 2018 (Special Seminar)
Dr. Woutijn Baars (University of Melbourne)
“Data-driven spectral filters for identifying structure in the streamwise turbulent kinetic energy of turbulent boundary layers”

March 23, 2018
SPRING BREAK (No Seminar)

March 26, 2018 (Special Seminar)
Dr. Varghese Mathai (University of Twente)
“Dynamics of buoyant particles in turbulent flows”

March 30, 2018
Prof. Jiarong Hong (University of Minnesota)
“A Path towards Innovative Flow Field Imaging”

April 6, 2018
Prof. William Devenport (Virginia Tech)
“Wind Turbines, Trailing Edge Noise, Aeroacoustic Testing and Owls”

April 13, 2018
Dr. Wen Wu (Johns Hopkins University)
“Flow Physics of Laminar and Turbulent Separation Bubbles”

April 20, 2018
Prof. Thomas Juliano (University of Notre Dame)
“Flight & Quiet-Tunnel Measurements of Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Transition”

April 27, 2018
Prof. Steven Brunton (University of Washington)
“Data-Driven Discovery and Control of Nonlinear Systems”

May 4, 2018
Prof. Chris White (University of New Hampshire)
“Properties of the Mean Momentum Balance in Polymer Drag-Reduced Channel Flow”