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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
Breakfast pastries and coffee are available from 9:30am. Technical sessions begin at 10:00am and end by 4:00pm on October 31.
Register:
Registration is now open and closes on Friday, October 23rd. 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 coffee and refreshments. Registration is FREE and is open to all Virginia Tech undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, faculty, and staff.
Submit an Abstract:
Abstract submission closed on Wednesday, October 14th. 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. Organizers are Profs. Mark Paul (mrp@vt.edu) and Mark Stremler (stremler@vt.edu). Please contact us if you have any questions.
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.