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.

Interactions and Feedbacks 2011

Conference - Prague November 29-30, 2011

The 18th seminar will discuss the problems of interaction od dynamical systems with the surrounding liquid or gas environment and the problems of dynamic systems with feedback.  »»» 

Vibrations of steam and gas turbines elements

Lecture - November 22, 2011 (Tuesday), 10:00
Professor Iurii S. Vorobiov

The Czech Society for Mechanics invites you to a lecture entitled Vibrations of steam and gas turbines elements, which will be given by Professor Iurii S. Vorobiov from the A.N. Podgorny Institute for Mechanical Engineering Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine.  »»» 


Colloqium Fluid Dynamics 2011

Conference - Prague, Institute of Thermomechanics ASCR, lecture room B, October 19–21, 2011

The Institute of Thermomechanics ASCRCzech Society for Mechanics and the ERCOFTAC Czech Pilot Centre will organise on October 19 – 21, 2011  »»» 

Numerical and Experimental Studies of Low Reynolds Number Synthetic Jets

Lecture - October 26, 2011 (Wednesday), 10:30-11:30
Dr. Victoria Timchenko, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of New South Wales, UNSW Sydney NSW 2052 Australia

Dr. Timchenko is a senior lecturer at the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Her areas of expertise are computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer. Research interests include natural convection and phase change problems; solidification and melting processes under earth gravity and space microgravity conditions; cooling of building integrated photovoltaic systems and microelectronic devices; biomedical applications.  »»» 


Summer School and Workshop Fluid-Structure Interaction for Biomedical Applications

Conference - Institute of Mathematics, AS CR,Žitná 25, 115 67 Praha, Czech Republic, August 29 - September 2, 2011

The aim of the summer school is to present a comprehensive series of lectures on modern as well as classical problems related to fluid-structure interaction. The emphasize will be on mathematical, computational and experimental topics originating in biomedical applications. The summer course is prepared for graduate students,young scientists, and other interested specialists. Besides of the course lectures, the program will include a one day workshops (on Wednesday, August 31) dedicated to short, more advanced lectures given by attending scientists  »»» 

Bubble Fission and Cavitating Flows

Lecture - August 31, 2011, 13:00-13:45
Prof. Can F. Delale, Işık University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey

Prof. Can Fuat Delale received his M.Sc. degree in Physics in 1979 at Lehigh University (USA) and his Ph.D. degree in Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics in 1983 at Brown University (USA). He is a member of a number of scientific societies, holder of a number of prizes, fellowships and awards and the referee for a number of distinguished scientific journals.  »»» 


Periodicity Effects in Linear Vibro-Acoustics

Lecture - September 9, 2011 (Friday), 10:45-11:30
Prof. Sergey Sorokin, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Aalborg University, Denmark

Czech Society for Mechanics – the expert group for Computational mechanics and the Institute of Thermomechanics AS CR wish to invite you to a lecture entitled Periodicity Effects in Linear Vibro-Acoustics by   »»» 

Microtemperature as an internal variable

Lecture - September 9, 2011 (Friday), 10:00-10:45
Dr. Arkadi Berezovski, Centre for Nonlinear Studies, Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

Czech Society for Mechanics – the expert group for Computational mechanics and the Institute of Thermomechanics AS CR wish to invite you to a lecture entitled Microtemperature as an internal variable by   »»» 


IAPWS 2011 Annual Meeting & Symposium

Conference - Pilsen, September 4–9, 2011, Primavera Hotel & Congress Centre

logo IAPWSCzech National Committee for the Properties of Water and Steam (CZ NC PWS) in collaboration with University of West Bohemia will organize IAPWS 2011 Annual Meeting & Symposium held in Pilsen on September 4-9, 2011. The objective of the annual IAPWS meetings is to review and evaluate the results obtained in the working groups during the previous period, to prepare IAPWS documents for publication and to determine new objectives and assign tasks for the next period.

As part of the Meeting a one-day Symposium on Water and Aqueous Mixtures: Research for Future Energy Technologies is held on September 7. The programme of the Symposium can be found here.  The registration page is open until August 22, 2011.  »»» 

Extending the Reach of the Finite Element Method: Polyhedral Elements, Solution Remapping, and Nonconforming Embedment

Lecture - August 17, 2011, 10:00
Mark M. Rashid, University of California, Davis, USA
Mark M. Rashid is a professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of University of California, Davis, California, USA. His research interest include fracture mechanics, computational mechanics, fluid-structure interaction, blast loading, material modeling, plasticity, MEMS.

The presentation is a part of the Presentation Series on Computational Solid Mechanics held on August 3-17, 2011 in the Institute of Thermomechanics ASCR v. v. i.  »»» 



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