Dr Alvaro Meseguer

Lecturer in Physics

Research interests:   Hydrodynamic Stability and transition to turbulence.

Highlights:  

Turbulent spots and spiral turbulence in small gap Taylor-Couette flow

(Direct Numerical Simulation of Navier-Stokes equations)

Meseguer, et al., Phys. Rev. E80 046315, 2009

Turbulent spots - intermittency (2D radial view)	Spiral turbulence (2D radial view)	Spiral turbulence (2D axial view)	Spiral turbulence (3D view)

Download movie 1 (turbulent spots, radial cross section).

Download movie 2 (spiral turbulence, radial cross section).

Download movie 3 (spiral turbulence, axial cross section) .

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SCI Research publications

Popular science:  

• El Enigma de Osborne Reynolds .

  An introductory article on pipe flow turbulence transition.

  Spanish edition of Scientific American (Investigación y Ciencia, in spanish)

• El problema de Reynolds: transició subcrítica a la turbulència .

  A more detailed introductory paper on pipe flow transition to turbulence, intended for graduate students in physics, mathematics and/or engineering.

  Revista de Física (journal of the Catalonian Physics Society - SCF, in catalan)

Conferences, Workshops and Research Talks

• Bifurcations and Instabilities in Fluid Dynamics (4^th International Symposium, BIFD2011)

  

• 13^th International Couette Taylor Workshop

  July 3-5, 2003 -- Barcelona, Spain.

• Subcritical equilibria in counter-rotating Taylor-Couette flow (video streaming)

  Talk given at the Newton Institute (University of Cambridge, September 2008).

Master courses (MSc. in Computational and Applied Physics, UPC-UB):  

• Nonlinear Dynamics and Hydrodynamic Instabilities.

• Numerical Methods for Dissipative Systems.

• Programming and Numerical Methods.

Former PhD students:  

• Marc Avila (currently postdoctoral researcher at Max Planck Inst. Gottingen)

• Fernando Mellibovsky

Curiosities:  

• "Por tierra, mar o aire...". A bit annoying letter published in El País (13-07-2006, PDF, in spanish).

• "La Ciencia en huelga". Another annoying letter also published in El País (18-08-2009, PDF, in spanish).

• Have you got a new scientific idea? (maximae in scientific work)

Interesting links

• Numerical Software Repository (Netlib, NA-Digest)

• Applied Physics Department (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

• Oxford University

• Looking for a job in the academic world?

• Real Academia Española de la lengua (diccionario)