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This year we will hold the 15th Fall Fluid Mechanics Symposium (FFMS) on Saturday, October 31st 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 and a poster session 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. However, all are encouraged to present their research and you do not need to be attending one of these conferences to present your work at the symposium. Presentations by undergraduates, graduate students, postodcs, research scientists, and faculty are all welcome.
Schedule
Light refreshments and coffee are available from 9:30am. Technical sessions begin at 10:00am and end by 1:00pm on October 31.
10:00–11:15 First Session
Session A1: Biological and Bio-Inspired Flows (135 Goodwin Hall)
Session Chair: Anne Staples
- 10:00 - Banik, Kamol: Dynamic mode decomposition links flapping and twisting kinematics to bat straight-flight aerodynamics
- 10:15 - Ifraj, Nowroze Farhan: Multi-fidelity Analysis of Samara Autorotation: Experiments, Reduced-Order Modeling, and CFD |
- 10:30 - Darden, Ben: Hydrodynamic Analysis of Manta-like Bodies using Random Forest Classification
- 10:45 - Khan, Saadbin | Insect tracheal microstructure reverses terminal molecular escape asymmetry in thermalized air molecules
- 11:00 - Bhagawat, Pooja | High-Performance Parallel Framework for Simulating Deformable Membranes in Fluid Flow
Session A2: Droplets, Interfaces and Confined Fluids (125 Goodwin Hall)
Session Chair: Jonathan Boreyko
- 10:00 - Swedat, Mohammad | Capacitive Fog Harvesting
- 10:15 - Malakar, Abir | Ziplining Droplets on Oil-Impregnated Fibers
- 10:30 - Qiu, Chongpeng | Acoustic Streaming in Photocurable Resin
- 10:45 - Aboubakri, Akam | Water Film Stability and Capillary Bridge Transition in Silica Nanochannels with CO2
- 11:00 - Ahmed, Ejaz: Effects of Initial Surfactant Distribution and Surface Wettability on Threshold Pressure of Forced Imbibition in Silica Nanopores: Insights from Molecular Dynamics |
11:15–11:45 — Poster session and coffee break (Goodwin Atrium)
Posters
- Stremler, Mark - A generalized Karman-like drag law for vortex-dominated bluff-body wakes
- Garcia, Alvaro - On conservation of vorticity in two and three dimensions
- Ji, Ruiyang - Stopping Distance and Lateral Deflection of Spheres Decelerating from Fully Developed Wakes
- Shamsodini Lori, Mohammad - Physics-Informed XGBoost for Interpolating and Extrapolating the Thermal Performance of Spray Cooling Systems
11:45–1:00 — Second Session
Session B1: Marine Hydrodynamics, Turbomachinery and Applied CFD (135 Goodwin Hall)
Session Chair: Alexandrina Untaroiu
- 11:45 - Roach, Olivia: Experimental Analysis of Pressure and Acceleration During Slamming of High-Speed Planing Craft
- 12:00 - Khan, Md Riasat Morshed: Wave regime dependence of impedance-matched PTO settings for an Oscillating Surge Wave Energy Converter
- 12:15 - Cole, Alex: Lagrangian Particle Tracking in a Single Stage Compressor
- 12:30 - Veng, Lyhour: Numerical evaluation of L-shaped profile labyrinth seal performance
- 12:45 - Adiyaman, Mehmet: A Conservative Diffuse-Interface Method for Melting and Solidification
Session B2: Chaos, Dynamical Systems and Flow Control (125 Goodwin Hall)
Session Chair: Jeff Borggaard
- 11:45 - Khattab, Mohamed: Spectral analysis of passive scalar decay in the Moffatt eddy flow
- 12:00 - Borggaard, Jeff: Nonlinear Feedback Control for Fluids
- 12:15 - Paul, Mark: Chaos in Electromagnetically Driven Flows
- 12:30 - Thakore, Malav: Exploring the Chaotic Dynamics of 2D Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
- 12:45 - Raj, Aditya: A network view of spatiotemporal chaos with long-range connections
Registration:
Registration is now closed. However, all are welcome to attend, and registration is not required for attendance.
Submit an Abstract:
Abstract submission is now closed.
The symposium is hosted by the Mechanical Engineering Department. Organizers are Profs. Mark Paul (mrp@vt.edu) and Mark Stremler (stremler@vt.edu). PhD candidate Aditya Raj (araj@vt.edu) is providing support for the website. Please contact us if you have any questions.
Images on the top of the page:
1. Image by PhD student Ruiyang Ji, working with Rui Qiao:
(top) Numerical simulation of particulate dynamics in a fluid.
(bottom) The adaptive mesh that is used.