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Professor Sergei I. Chernyshenko, Chair in Aerodynamics, Department of Aeronautics, presents his inaugural lecture “Not so random walk through fluid dynamics”.
In the Chair: Professor Richard Hillier, Head of the Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London.
Vote of Thanks: Professor Ian P. Castro, Professor in the School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton.
A pre lecture tea will be served from 16.45 in the Senior Common Room, Level 2, Sherfield Building, South Kensington Campus.
Attendance at this lecture is free with registration in advance: l.brown@imperial.ac.uk.
Abstract: What can one do with a fluid? Well, breath it, drink it, swim through it, canoe through it, sail through it, fish in it, fly in it, and even do scientific research on it. This speaker can say about fluids what Kipling wrote about roads: “Speakin’ in general, I ‘ave tried ’em all “ and “Speakin’ in general, I ‘ave found them good”. I will share the fun with listeners, taking them on the journey I made myself through fluid dynamics and life, far and wide through things small and large, important or just curious, but always novel and surprising, until we arrive at the difficult choice now facing those who are at the frontline of turbulence research. Standing there at the fork in the road we will look forward to flow control – the future of fluid dynamics.
Biography: Professor Sergei Ivanovich Chernyshenko holds a Chair in Aerodynamics in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London. Until November 2007 he was a Professor of Fluid Dynamics at the University of Southampton, which he joined in 2000 after more than 25 years of association with the Moscow State University, Russia, starting as mathematics undergraduate and finishing in a Leading Researcher position. He performed many analytic and numerical studies on different topics in fluid dynamics, including nonlinear stability of air-cushion vehicles, hydraulically driven centrifuges, particle-loaded gas flows, turbulent supersonic separation with heat and mass injection, rotating stall in axial compressors, various questions of high-Reynolds-number asymptotics of fluid flows, and theory of turbulence. Professor Chernyshenko’s most well-known research is the high-Re asymptotics of the steady solution of the Navier-Stokes equations for the separated flow past a bluff body.