The Turbomachinery Lab Seminar Series offers a weekly, Tuesday afternoon session of technical presentations on topics covering the breadth of TL-related research each semester.
The Seminar Series was created with the purpose to showcase ongoing and related TL research and will occasionally feature external presenters. They are intended to be an academic gathering of TL faculty, students, staff, and any other interested attendees. Seminars will consist of 2, 25-min presentations for students and postdocs, or one, 50-min presentation per seminar for faculty or external speakers. Light refreshments will be available at the end of each seminar. Topics will come from the breadth of research currently ongoing at TL and related areas.
TL is excited to make available the opportunity for students to present to an academic crowd; cross-fertilization of research topics and ideas within TL and related organizations; a gathering of researchers at all levels in a collegiate environment; and to learn some new things and meet new people with common interests; etc.
Time: Tuesdays at 4 P.M.
Location: Turbo Lab Classroom, TL room 163
Duration (Fall 2025): September 9th – December 2nd
Fall 2025 SCHEDULE
Note: Graduate students can receive MEEN 681 Seminar credit for seminars marked with *
September 9th* –
- Dr. Vinayak Krishnamurthy J. Mike Walker ’66 Career Development Professor Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University “Jigsaw Puzzles in Nature: Partitive Geometry for Generative Design of Interlocked Architected Materials” Host: A. Delgado
September 16th –
- No Seminar – TPS in Houston
September 23rd –
- Samuel Crawford “Wave Control in Hierarchical Kerf Structures”
- Dafu Gu “Numerical Study on Operability and Design Characteristics of a Small-Scale Hydrogen-Air Rotating Detonation Engine”
September 30th –
- Anish Agarwal “Simulation of Torsional Vibrations and Fatigue for Machinery Trains”
- Matthew Hay “Femtosecond Two-Color, Two-Photon Polarization Spectroscopy Detection of Atomic Hydrogen in Flames”
October 7th –
- Yunus Karasu “Design and Testing of a Detonation Initiator”
- Ciprian Comsa “An Experimental and Computational Investigation of the Rotordynamic Coefficients of Labyrinth Seals – Comparison Between Different Pre-Swirl Conditions”
October 14th –
- No Seminar – Fall Break
October 21st* –
-
Dr. Royce Beal Head, IRAD, Anduril Rocket Motor Systems “Solid Rocket Motor Manufacturing: the Literal Twists and Turns of Anduril RMS” Host: M. Cooper
October 28th –
-
Zewei Shen “Dynamic Characterization of a Compliantly Damped Hybrid Porous Gas Bearing”
-
David Lont “Detonation Front Shapes in Curved Channels”
November 4th –
- TBD
November 11th –
-
TBD
November 18th –
-
TBD
November 25* –
A special seminar hosted by TAMU Chemistry at 11:30AM
-
Dr. Brandon Rotavera Associate Professor, College of Engineering and Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia “TBD” Location: Chemistry Building, Room 2104, 11:30AM
December 2nd –
-
TBD
Seminar Format
Each seminar will consist of an hour long presentation. For student-driven presentations, two students will be given 25 minutes to discuss their research. All of the presentations are offered in a hybrid format, both in person at the Turbo Lab Classroom and over zoom. The fall 2025 Turbomachinery Laboratory Seminar Series was coordinated by Dr. Eric Petersen.
Contact Debbie Maggs at [email protected] for further questions regarding the series.