Fall Meeting 2008
The Fall meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 12, 2008, in the Sherwood Room in Levering Hall on the Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins University at 8:30 p.m. The speaker will be Dr. Charles Meneveau, Louis M. Sardella Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. He will present a lecture entitled "Modeling turbulent flow over fractal trees using Renormalized Numerical Simulation."
You are cordially invited to attend the pre-lecture dinner with the speaker.
See below for directions and parking information for the lecture and dinner.
Lecture
Modeling turbulent flow over fractal trees using Renormalized Numerical Simulation
Dr. Charles Meneveau
Louis M. Sardella Professor in Mechanical Engineering
Director, Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics
Johns Hopkins University
I will describe the challenges associated with simulating turbulent flows
over complex multi-scale objects. In particular, we consider fractal,
tree-like objects, with special emphasis on the drag forces produced.
Fractal objects display large scale-disparity and complexity while being
amenable to simple and standardized description. Hence, they offer an elegant
idealization of the actual interactions between turbulence and boundaries
in practical applications where boundaries are characterized by multiple
length-scales. In order to avoid the need to resolve all the small-scale
branches of the fractal, a new numerical modeling technique called Renormalized
Numerical Simulation (RNS) is introduced. Results illustrate that RNS enables
numerical modeling of physical processes
associated with fractal geometries, using affordable computational
resolution.
Dinner
The pre-lecture dinner will be held at Gertrude's Restaurant in the Baltimore Museum of Art, which is next to the Johns Hopkins campus. Dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m. Four entrees are available for your advance selection: Gertie's Crab Cake ($35.00), Marinated Flank Steak ($33.00), Five-Spice Chicken ($33.00), and Thai Vegetable Curry ($31.00). The pricing is inclusive of salad, entree choice, all soft beverages (sodas, coffee, tea, etc.), tax and gratuity.
To attend the dinner, please send your entree choice along with a check
for the appropriate amount (made out to SIAM Washington-Baltimore Section)
early enough to be received by Friday, November 7, to our Treasurer,
Jeff Sieracki, PO Box 1011, College Park, MD, 20741. PLEASE include
your full name and email address with your check so that we can send you
a confirmation of your reservation. If you cannot get your check to him by
that date and you still want to come to
dinner, then please email him by Friday, November 7, at [email protected].
Gertrude's can accommodate at most twenty-five diners on this occasion,
so be sure to reserve in advance.
Campus Directions
The Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins University is in Baltimore near 33rd and Charles Streets. The lecture will be held in the Sherwood Room in Levering Hall. Gertrude's Restaurant is in the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), which is next to the campus. You may refer to the Homewood Campus and Parking Map, available at http://www.parking.jhu.edu/general_maps.html, for the exact location of both venues.
Driving to BMA from I-695 (points East, North, and West):
Take exit #23 to I-83 South (Jones Falls Expressway). Follow I-83 several
miles to 28th Street eastbound exit. On 28th Street, go to the fourth traffic
light, and turn left onto North Howard Street. Go one block on Howard Street,
crossing 29th Street, and bear right at the fork onto Art Museum Drive.
The BMA will be on your left.
Driving to BMA from I-95 or MD-295 (points South):
If coming on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway (MD-295), follow it to
the end and you'll be on Russell Street. If coming on I-95, take the Russell
Street exit. On Russell Street go over the bridge, exit into the right
lane, and follow the signs onto Martin Luther King Boulevard. On Martin
Luther King Boulevard go past U.S. 40; get into the center lane. After
passing Druid Hill Avenue stay in your lane and bear left onto North Howard
Street. Go past North Avenue and continue until you pass 29th Street. Bear
around to the right at the fork onto Art Museum Drive. The BMA will be
on your left.
Parking
There are three parking options:
1) On-Street metered parking along Art Museum Drive
E-Z Park Meters accept coins, debit cards, and credit cards. After
pre-paying, simply display the printed parking receipt on the dashboard
of your vehicle. The rate is $0.50 per hour.
2) BMA-Gated Parking Lots
There is a flat parking rate of $5 from 5 p.m. until midnight.
3) JHU Homewood Campus (South Parking Garage and Metered Faculty Lots)
You may refer to http://www.parking.jhu.edu/general_maps.html,
for visitor parking locations. There is a flat parking rate of $5 from
3:45 p.m. until midnight at the garage, and $2 per hour at the meters
with a maximum charge of $5, valid until the end of the day.
