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This year we will hold the 14th Fall Fluid Mechanics Symposium (FFMS) on Saturday, November 8th on the first floor of Goodwin Hall on the Virginia Tech campus. There is no registration fee, and all Virginia Tech students and faculty are welcome to attend and participate.
The FFMS will consist of parallel sessions of 10-minute presentations by faculty and students covering a broad range of fluid mechanics research. If you are involved in fluids research and related fields, this is a great opportunity to present your work and connect with other researchers at Virginia Tech. The symposium is arranged so that those who will be attending the upcoming APS DFD and ASME IMECE meetings can present their work first here at the FFMS.
Lunch at this year’s FFMS is being provided by Cambridge Computer and Nvidia, who will be conducting a lunch workshop together with VT ARC on high-performance computing in fluid mechanics. Lunch is provided for all registered attendees.
Register:
Registration is now open and closes on Sunday, November 2nd. If you plan to attend the symposium, either as a presenter or an observer, please fill out this registration form. Registering your attendance will help us plan appropriately for lunch. Registration is FREE and is open to all Virginia Tech undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, faculty, and staff.
Submit an Abstract:
Abstract submission is now open and closes on Monday, October 27th. To submit an abstract please fill out this abstract submission form. We follow the APS DFD guidelines for the abstract length, which limits submissions to 1300 characters. All presentations follow the DFD format of a 10-minute presentation, which will be followed by a 5-minute period for questions and discussion.
The symposium is hosted by the Mechanical Engineering Department, Cambridge Computer, Nvidia, and Virginia Tech Advanced Research Computing (ARC). Organizers are Profs. Mark Stremler (stremler@vt.edu) and Mark Paul (mrp@vt.edu), with assistance provided by EM PhD student Alvaro Garcia (alvarogd25@vt.edu). Please contact any of us if you have any questions.
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Images on the top of the page: CFD simulations of flow around and inside fish nests by PhD student Huan Yang from the AIRFlowS Lab (H. Foroutan, PI); photograph provided courtesy of Prof. E. Frimpong.