Our group is led by Professors Francois Blanchette, Shilpa Khatri, Changho Kim, Dustin Kleckner, Bin Liu, Kevin Mitchell, Maxime Theillard and and consists of graduate students, postdocs and faculty in the Applied Mathematics and Physics Graduate programs. Our work is supported, in part, by grants from the National Science Foundation.
Group Meeting Schedule for Fall 2021 - Fridays 12:30-1:30pm ACS-362B
The Fluids seminar currently follows the Energy and Environment seminar,
We will also share the seminar on zoom, though in-person attendance is recommended if at all possible and safe. The zoom link will be:
https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/85085236301
Contact Prof. Blanchette (fblanchette@ucmerced.edu) for more information or to register to the class.
Schedule for Fall 2021:
Septermber 3: Organizational meeting
Septermber 10: Shayna Bennett, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
Septermber 17: Adam Binswanger, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics and De Zhen Zhou, Graduate student, Physics
Septermber 24: Matteo Polimeno, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
October 1: Kevin Mitchell, Faculty, Physics
October 8: Matthew Blomquist and Sarah Downs, Graduate students, Applied Mathematics
October 15: Bin Liu, Faculty, Physics
October 22: Maxime Theillard, Faculty, Applied Mathematics
October 29: Alex Ho and Eunji Yoo, Graduate students, Applied Mathematics
November 5: Dustin Kleckner, Faculty, Physics, and Cole Cooper, Graduate student, Physics
November 12: APS-DFD practice talks
November 19: APS-DFD practice talks
December 3: Diego Tapia Silva and Jane Garcia, Graduate students, Physics
December 10: Eric Eibeck, Undergraduate student, Applied Mathematics
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Group meetings are canceled from March 13 until further notice because of COVID-19.
January 31st, 2020
Scientific Paper writing conversation, led by Francois Blanchette, Faculty, Applied Mathematics
February 7th, 2020
Arvind Gopinath, Faculty, Bio-Engineering
February 14th, 2020
Bin Liu, Faculty, Physics
February 21th, 2020
Graduate Visitation
February 28th, 2020
Jeremias Gonzales, Graduate student, Physics
Pooja Chopra, Graduate student, Physics
March 6th, 2020
No talk because of the March Meeting
March 13th, 2020
Reza Parsa, Postdoc, Applied Mathematics<
March 20th, 2020
Matea Santiago, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
March 27th, 2020
Cesar Chavez, Activist
April 3rd, 2020
Shayna Bennett, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
April 10th, 2020
Eunji Yoo, Graduate Student, Applied Mathematics
De Zhen Zhou, Graduate Student, Physics
April 17th, 2020
SIAM Chapter Regional conference
April 24th, 2020
Adam Binswanger, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
Cole Cooper, Graduate student, Physics
May 1st, 2020
Mateo Polimeno, Graduate student, Applied Mathematicss
Diego Tapia Silva, Graduate student, Physics
Group Meeting Schedule for Fall 2019 - Fridays 1:30-2:30pm ACS-362B
September 6th, 2019
Kevin Mitchell, Faculty, Physics
September 13th, 2019
Reza Parsa, Post-doc, Applied Mathematics
Jeremias Gonzales, Graduate student, Physics
September 20th, 2019
Shilpa Khatri, Faculty, Applied Mathematics
September 27th, 2019
Adam Binswanger, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
October 4th, 2019
Dustin Kleckner, Faculty, Physics
October 11th, 2019
Bin Liu, Faculty, Physics
October 18th, 2019
Eunji Yoo, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
Lori Lewis, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
October 25th, 2019
Shayna Bennett, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
Matea Santiago, Graduate student, Applied Mathematics
November 1st, 2019
Arnold Kim, Faculty, Applied Mathematics
November 8th, 2019
Practice Talks for APS-DFD conference
November 15th, 2019
Practice Talks for APS-DFD conference
November 22nd, 2019
Elsie Cortes, Undergraduate, Applied Mathematics
Camille Carvalho, Faculty, Applied Mathematics
December 6th, 2019
Mateo Polimeno, Graduate student, Applied Mathematicss
Diego, Graduate student, Physics
December 13th, 2019
Maxime Theillard, Faculty, Applied Mathematics
Group Meeting Schedule for Spring 2019 - Fridays 1:30-2:30pm COB1-322 (Willow room)
February 8th, 2019
Tracy Mandel, Postdoctoral researcher, Applied Mathematics and Physics
and De Zheng, prospective graduate student, Physics
February 15th, 2019
Bin Liu, Faculty, Physics
March 1st, 2019
Practice talks for APS March Meeting, Physics
March 15th, 2019
Eunji Yoo, Graduate Student, Applied Mathematics
March 22nd, 2019
Changho Kim, Faculty, Applied Mathematics
April 12th, 2019
Harishankar Manikantan, Postdoc, Chemical Engineering, UCSB
April 26th, 2019
Matea Alvarado, Graduate Student, Applied Mathematics
May 10th, 2019
Simon Berman, Postdoctoral Researcher, Physics
Group Meeting Schedule for Fall 2018 - Fridays 1:00-2:00pm SE1-300
October 12th, 2018
Tracy Mandel, Postdoctoral researcher, Applied Mathematics and Physics
October 26th, 2018
Francois Blanchette, Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics
November 16th, 2018
Practice APS-DFD talks
Group Meeting Schedule for Spring 2017 - Fridays 9:30-10:30am COB 322 (Willow Room)
January 27th, 2017
Francois Blanchette, Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics
February 3rd, 2017
David Martin, Lecturer, Applied Mathematics
February 10th, 2017
Kevin Mitchell, Professor, Physics
February 17th, 2017
Dustin Kleckner, Assistant Professor, Physics
February 24th, 2017
Graduate visitation
March 3rd, 2017
Bin Liu, Assistant Professor, Physics
March 10th, 2017
March 17th, 2017
March 24th, 2017
March 31st, 2017
Spring break
April 7th, 2017
Matea Alvarado, Graduate Student, Applied Mathematics
April 14th, 2017
Yu Zeng, Postdoctoral Fellow, Physics
April 21st, 2017
Shilpa Khatri, Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics
April 28th, 2017
Vaibhav Gupta, Graduate Student, Applied Mathematics
May 5th, 2017
Mac Panah, Graduate Student,Mechanical Engineering
Group Meeting Schedule for Fall 2016 - Fridays 2:00-3:00pm COB SAR
August 26th, 2016
Organizational Meeting
September 2nd, 2016
Francois Blanchette, Associate Professor
September 9th, 2016
Replaced by Gravitational Waves Physics Seminar
September 16th, 2016
Bin Liu, Assistant Professor
September 23rd, 2016
Shilpa Khatri, Assistant Professor
September 30th, 2016
Dustin Kleckner, Assistant Professor
October 7th, 2016
Conference Preparation
October 14th, 2016
Kevin Mitchell, Professor
October 21th, 2016
Yu Zeng, Post-doc
October 28th, 2016
Rory Locke, Graduate Student
November 4th, 2016
Mac Panah, Graduate Student
November 18th, 2016
Practice APS-DFD talks
December 2nd, 2016
Matea Alvarado, Graduate Student
December 9th, 2016
OPEN
Group Meeting Schedule for Spring 2016 - Fridays 12:30-1:30pm COB SAR
January 29th, 2016
Organizational meeting
February 5th, 2016
Francois Blanchette, Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics
February 12th, 2016
Hoang-Ngan Nguyen, Postdoc, Applied Mathematics
February 19th, 2016
Graduate Visitation
February 26th, 2016
Yu Zeng, Postdoc, Physics
March 4th, 2016
Karin Leiderman, Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics
March 11th, 2016
Dustin Kleckner, Assistant Professor, Physics
March 18th, 2016
Shilpa Khatri, Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics
March 25th, 2016
Spring break
April 1st, 2016
Ilija Jegdic, Postdoc, Applied Mathematics
April 8th, 2016
Bin Liu, Assistant Professor, Physics
April 15th, 2016
Mac Panah, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering
April 22th, 2016
Matea Alvarado, Graduate Student, Applied Mathematics
April 29th, 2016
Nicholas Danes, Graduate Student, Applied Mathematics
May 6th, 2016
Open
Group Meeting Schedule for Fall 2015 - Wednesdays 10:30-11:20am COB SAR
September 2nd, 2015
Bin Liu, Assistant Professor
September 9th, 2015
Lindsay Waldrop, Postdoctoral Fellow
September 16th, 2015
Shilpa Khatri, Assistant Professor
September 23rd, 2015
Karin Leiderman, Assistant Professor
September 30th, 2015
Nick Danes, Graduate Student
October 7th, 2015
Mac Panah, Graduate Student
October 14th, 2015
François Blanchette, Associate Professor
October 21th, 2015
Dustin Kleckner, Assistant Professor
October 28th, 2015
Michael Kelley, Graduate Student
November 4th, 2015
CANCELLED
November 18th, 2015
Hoang-Ngan Nguyen and Francois Blanchette practice APS-DFD talks
December 2nd, 2015
Matea Alvarado, Graduate Student
Group Meeting Schedule for Spring 2015 - Wednesdays 10:45-11:45 COB SAR
January 28th, 2015
Karin Leiderman, Assistant Professor
February 4th, 2015
Francois Blanchette, Associate Professor
Approach to writing a scientific paper
February 11th, 2015
Free Discussion
February 18th, 2015
Mac Panah, Graduate Student
Numerical methods for solving large systems of equations
February 25th, 2015
Terese Thompson, Graduate Student
March 4th, 2015
Karin Leiderman, Assistant Professor
Practice talk for CSE
March 11th, 2015
Sarah Olson, Assistant Professor, WPI
March 18th, 2015
Ana Cecilia Arbelaez, Visiting Graduate Student
Modeling flow into a reservoir
March 25th, 2015
Spring Break
April 1st, 2015
Michael Stobb, Graduate Student
April 8th, 2015
Shilpa Katri, Assistant Professor.
April 15th, 2015
Free discussion
April 22nd, 2015
Free discussion
April 29th, 2015
Nicholas Danes, Graduate student
May 6th, 2015
David Martin, Graduate Student
Practice thesis defense
Group Meeting Schedule for Fall 2014 - Wednesdays 10:45-11:45 COB SAR
September 10th, 2014
Shilpa Khatri, Assistant Professor
Fluid-structure interaction, multi-phase flows, and modeling pulsating coral
September 17th, 2014
Francois Blanchette, Associate Professor
Paper and discussion of the penalty method
September 24rd, 2014
Hoang-Ngan Nguyen, Postdoc
Paper presentation: "Life at Low Reynolds Number" - Purcell
October 1st, 2014
Michael Stobb, Graduate Student
Introduction to the Finite Element Method
October 8th, 2014
Mac Panah, Graduate Student.
Current research topic - Brinkman/NS equations solver
October 15th, 2014
Hoang-Ngan Nguyen, Postdoc
Pozrikidis 1996 paper on periodic Stokes
October 22nd, 2014
Terese Thompson, Graduate Student.
Error analysis from 3D Regularized Stokeslet paper Cortez et al., 2005
October 29th, 2014
Shilpa Khatri, Assistant Professor
What is the best way to render a velocity field divergence free?
November 5th, 2014
Nick Danes, Graduate Student
On Fenics
November 12th, 2014
TBA
November 19, 2014
APS-DFD practice talks
December 3, 2014
David Martin, Graduate Student
Settling drops in the presence of surfactants
