PLEASE NOTE THE DAY CHANGE TO TUESDAY

3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. in Hodson Hall 210

Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Prof. Jeff Eldredge (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Stochastic Estimation and Reinforcement Learning Control of Disturbed Aerodynamic Flows”
Hosted by: Prof. Rajat Mittal (MechE)

Tuesday, February 11, 2025
No Seminar

Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Canceled

Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Dr. Ankit Barik (JHU – Earth and Planetary Sciences)
“The Spherical Couette System : A Third Drosophila of Fluid Dynamics”
Hosted by: Sabine Stanley (EPS)

Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Dr. Luis “Tony” Martinez-Tossas (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
“Harnessing Fluid Mechanics for the Development of Next-Generation Wind Energy Systems”
Hosted by: Prof. Dennice Gayme (MechE) & ROSEI

Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Dr. Domingo Muñoz-Esparza (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
“Multi-Scale Modeling of Real-World Atmospheric Boundary Layers: Coupling Weather and GPU-Accelerated Large-Eddy Simulation Models for Actionable Science”
Hosted by: Dr. Branko Kosović (ROSEI)

March 17-21, 2025
SPRING BREAK – NO SEMINAR

Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Prof. Sung Min Jo (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
“Towards Physics-Aware Design of Next-Generation Space Systems“
Hosted by: Prof. Ishan Barman

Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Dr. Salvador Rey Gomez (Stanford University)
“Analysis of Nonequilibrium Turbulent Boundary Layers – Adverse Pressure Gradients and Swept-like Conditions”
Hosted by: Prof. Dennice Gayme (MechE)

Friday, April 4, 2025 (SPECIAL CEAFM SEMINAR)
Prof. Jeffrey Bons (The Ohio State University)
“Airborne Particle Deposition in Jet Engine Hot Sections” or “Should I Board a Flight during a Sandstorm”
Hosted by: Prof. Rui Ni (MechE)

Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Dr. Amy Robertson (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
“Sensitivity Analysis of Environmental and System Input Parameters on Wind Turbine Loads”
Hosted by: Prof. Julie K. Lundquist (MechE & EPS)

Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Prof. Haibo Dong (University of Virginia)
“Unsteady Flow Physics in Bio-inspired Swimming: A Computational Study of Foil-Fish and Fish-Fish Interactions”
Hosted by: Prof. Rajat Mittal (MechE)

Tuesday, April 22, 2025
The Inaugural Kovasznay Memorial Lecture in Fluid Dynamics
Prof. William T. M. Irvine (University of Chicago)
“Weaving Tangled Vortex Webs”
Hosted by: Prof. Charles Meneveau (MechE)

Friday, May 23, 2025 (SPECIAL CEAFM SEMINAR) in Zoom
Prof. Souvik Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology & Yardi School of Artificial Intelligence)
“Neural Operators and Beyond – The Changing Landscape of Scientific Computing”
Hosted by: Prof. Rajat Mittal (MechE)
Zoom: https://wse.zoom.us/j/93762992307