The Institute of Thermomechanics is a scientific and research institution of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The Institute conducts interdisciplinary basic research in the following areas: fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, dynamics of mechanical systems, solid mechanics, interactions of fluids and solids, environmental aerodynamics, biomechanics, mechatronics, electrophysics, electrical machines, drives and electronics and material diagnostics.
Compressor leading edges: An industrial game changer
Lecture - July 27, 2009 (Monday), 10:00-11:30
Dr. Rob Miller, Whittle Laboratory, Cambridge University

Dr. Rob Miller undertook his undergraduate, PhD and a research fellowship at Oxford University. For the last eight years he has been a Lecturer in Turbomachinery at the Whittle Laboratory in Cambridge University.  »»» 


Instability of Stratified Flows
Lecture - May 12, 2009 (Tuesday), 9.30-10.30
Dr. Jonathan Healey, Keele University, Great Britain

Dr. J. Healey graduated with a degree in physics at Oxford University in 1987, where he also obtained a DPhil in physics in 1991. His doctoral thesis was concerned with the analysis of phase spaces reconstructed from time series data.  »»» 

Stratification and rotation effects in environmental flows
Lecture - April 29, 2009 (Wednesday), 14:00-15:30
Prof. Yu.D. Chashechkin, Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the RAS

Чашечкин Юлий Дмитриевич (Chashechkin Yu.D.)
Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics of the Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
101/1 prospect Vernadskogo, Moscow 119574, Russia,
(E-mail: chakin@ipmnet.ru / Fax: 8 499 739 9531 / Phone 7495434 0192)  »»» 


Upwind techniques of finite element methods for convection dominant flow problem
Lecture - April 17, 2009 (Friday), 10:00–11:30
prof. Atsushi Suzuki, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan & Czech Tecnical University in Prague

Prof. Atsushi Suzuki is the assistant professor of Kyushu University in Japan and also visiting researcher at Czech Technical University in Prague.  »»» 

Fundamentals and Applications of Active Flow Control
Lecture - April 8, 2009 (Wednesday), 14:00
Prof. Avraham Seifert, University Tel Aviv

Prof. Seifert will present two recent research projects conducted in Tel Aviv using active flow control. The first project describes taking airfoil separation control concept to flight while the second describes the application of the newly developed suction and oscillatory blowing actuator for aerodynamic drag reduction of large trucks.  »»» 


Boundary layer experiments in a water channel
Lecture - March 31, Tuesday,14:00-16:00
dr. ir. Hendrik de Lange, Eindhoven University of Technology

Main topics of the research of Dr. de Lange are the boundary layer transition, heat transfer and cooling in gas turbines and the thermodynamics and transient behavior of turbine/compressor systems.The flat plate boundary layer experiments in a water channel have been performed.  »»» 

Colloquium Dynamics of Machines 2009
Conference - Institute of Thermomechanics AS CR, Prague, February 3–4, 2009

The aim of the Colloquium is to facilitate the exchange of up to date information and knowledge among specialists in solid mechanics. The main attention will be focused on:  »»» 


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New e-book on Numerical Methods in Computation Mechanics

The group of authors from the Institute of Thermomechanics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, the Institute of Mathematics of the Charles University and the Department of Technical Mathematics Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Czech Technical University has released an electronic book  »»» 

Topical Problems of Fluid Mechanics 2009
Conference - Prague, Institute of Thermomechanics AS CR, v. v. i., February 25-26, 2009

The aim of the conference is to discuss contemporary problems of Fluid Mechanics and to bring out the latest results obtained in the during the course of grant projects supported by grant agencies  »»» 



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