Splitting of the strain energy into its “non-membrane” and membrane percentage provides insight into the load-carrying mechanism of structures, subjected to proportional loading. It may be useful, for example, for sensitivity analysis of the initial post-buckling behavior of beams, arches, plates, and shells, and assemblies of such structures. The task of this work is to determine this percentage without computing insignificant numbers such as the values of the strain energy and its membrane part.  »»» 

Synthetic jets are fluid flows which are generated from periodically oscillating fluid. In spite of zero time-mean flux at the actuator, a non-zero time-mean jet flow can be generated (synthesized) from a train of individual fluid “puffs”. These flows have many perspective applications such as active control of flowfields and thermal fields (external and internal aerodynamics, cooling, mixing, etc.). The basic advantage is the simplicity – neither fluid source (compressor, blower, pump) nor supply piping is required.  »»» 

The talk is devoted to the phenomenological modelling of the stress response of metallic materials subjected to non-proportional loading conditions. As a preliminary step, a class of two-dimensional rheological models is introduced, capable of capturing the initial and strain-induced anisotropies of the analyzed material.  »»» 

A constitutive model for a porous metal subjected to general three-dimensional finite deformations is presented. The model takes into account the evolution of porosity and the development of anisotropy due to changes in the shape and the orientation of the voids during deformation. The pores are initially ellipsoidal and distributed randomly in an elastic-plastic matrix (metal). Under finite plastic deformation, the voids are assumed to remain ellipsoids, and to change their volume, shape, and orientation.  »»» 

The Institute of Thermomechanics is inviting you to two lectures of our colleagues from the Institute of Fluid Flow Machinery of the Polish Academy of Science, Gdańsk, which will be held on 6 December 2016 at 10:00 in the "club room" at Dolejškova 1402/52, 182 00, Prague 8.  »»» 

 The Czech Society for Mechanics and the Institute of Thermomechanica of the CAS invites you to the lectore of Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Manfreda Bischoffa, Institut für Baustatik und Baudynamik, Universität Stuttgart.  »»» 

The Czech Society for Mechanics and the Institute of Thermomechanica of the CAS invites you to the lectore of prof. Ari Glezer from the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology.  »»» 

Abstract: The presentation of the authors Drozdz A., Elsner W. will show new achievements in the research of a turbulent boundary layer structure and effect of pressure gradient.

Abstract: Presentation of recent results of the long-time project on gas-liquid flow in packed bed by collective of authors: D. Asendrych, P. Niegodajew, M. Marek, S. Drobniak, W. Elsner.

We kindly invite you to the lecture of Dr. Shan Zhong from the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, Manchester University, UK, entitled „Understanding the fluid mechanics of synthetic jets for flow separation control“. The lecture will take place in the Lecture Room A of the Institute of Thermomechanics ASCR on June 10, 2014 at 10:30.  »»» 

DATE CHANGED! The lecture will consist of two parts: 1) Thermo-economical analysis of supercritical coal-fired power unit (will be presented by Prof. W. Elsner); 2) Numerical modelling of CO2 absorption and desorption in CCS installation (will be delivered by Prof. S. Drobniak).  »»» 

The Czech Society for Mechanics kindly invites you to attend the lecture entitled „Problems of Static and Dynamics Strength of Gas Turbine Elements“, which will be presented in Russian by N. J. Оvcharova and I. S. Vorobiov from the A. N. Podgorny Institute for Mechanical Engineering Problems, NASU, Kharkov, Ukraine.  »»» 

Abstract: OECD-NEA benchmark on MATiS-H experiment. Flow downstream of the mixing vanes in fuel rod bundles. Experimental and numerical investigation on heat transfer and fluid mechanics. Extended surfaces heat transfer optimization for High Temperature Gas Cooled Nuclear Reactors fuel rods.

Kathrin Eisenschmidt is a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Aerospace Thermodynamics, University Stuttgart. The three-lecture, introductory course to analytical methods for partial differential equations is aimed (not exclusively) at master's students of technical universities.  »»» 

Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Society for Mechanics and the Institute of Thermomechanics AS CR, v. v. i. invites you to the lecture by K.C. Park, professor of Center for Aerospace Structures, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA and WCU Invited Professor, Division of Ocean Systems Engineering, School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Ocean System Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, the Republic of Korea.  »»» 

Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Society for Mechanics and the Institute of Thermomechanics AS CR, v. v. i. kindly invite you to the lecture by Jan D. Achenbach, Walter P. Murphy Professor, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA.  »»» 

The Czech Society for Mechanics – the expert group for Computational mechanics, the Institute of Thermomechanics AS CR and the Mathematical Institute, Charles University wish to invite you to a lecture, which is a part of the Nečas seminar on continuum mechanics, by  »»» 

We kindly invite you to the lecture by Prof. Koen Van Den Abeeleho from the Catholic University of Leuven, Campus Kortrijk, Belgium entitled Nonlinear Wave Propagation for Nondestructive Testing.  »»» 

Přednáška se bude týkat termodynamických a strukturních vlastností kapalné vody, zejména v metastabilním podchlazeném stavu, a vysvětlení anomálií vody na základě hypotézy druhého kritického bodu.

The flow set up by rotating a disc at constant angular velocity about its axis, in otherwise still fluid, is a classical problem in fluid mechanics. The resulting three-dimensional boundary layer is a useful model for the flow over swept wings and turbine blades.  »»» 

The Department of Electric Machines, Drives and Power Electronics cordially invites you to attend the lecture by Prof. Sergei Ryvkin on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 14:00 in the Lecture Room A of the Insitute of Thermomechanics ASCR. The lecture is entitled "Sliding mode control for electric drives". Prof. Ryvkin currently works as a leading scientist in the Trapeznikov Institute of Control Sciences of Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.  »»» 

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.  »»» 

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.  »»» 

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   »»» 

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   »»» 

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. More details about his CV including the list of his publications can be found here.  »»» 

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.  »»» 

The Czech Society for Mechanics – the expert group for Computational mechanics and the Institute of Thermomechanics AS CR wish to invite you to a lecture by  »»» 

Full title: Optimization of coded excitations with Symmetry Analysis : Formalism and applications in NDT with perspectives in ultrasonic nonlinear imaging of bio-materials  »»» 

In the stability theory of shear layers, the term `local stability' refers to the stability properties of a particular velocity profile at a given position in the flow. When the basic flow develops the streamwise direction, e.g. in a growing boundary layer, the changing local stability properties can be mapped out downstream. If there are regions of local absolute instability then there is the possibility of a `global instability' of the entire flow. When the basic flow varies slowly in the downstream direction the global stability can be determined from the local stability.  »»»