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  • AME Department Seminar

    Tue, Nov 15, 2011 @ 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

    Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: Tony Maxworthy, Smith International Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Professor. Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. University of Southern California.

    Talk Title: A Fascination with Fluids: Vortices and Vortex Breakdown

    Abstract: The problem of the dynamics of long slender vortices, e.g., tornadoes, dust devils,
    waterspouts, fire whirls, internal flow in rotating machinery, leading edge and trailing
    vortices on lifting surfaces, etc, has been a fascination for me for close to 50 years. A
    sequence of experimental studies will be presented, together with reasoned physical
    explanations and related theoretical arguments, that attempt to bring some order to the
    sometimes-controversial discussion that has swirled about the subject during that time.



    More Info: http://ame-www.usc.edu/seminars/index.shtml#upcoming

    Location: Robert Glen Rapp Engineering Research Building (RRB) - 208

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: April Mundy

    Event Link: http://ame-www.usc.edu/seminars/index.shtml#upcoming


    This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.


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