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2019 Fall Fluid Mechanics Symposium took place on November 4, 2019, in Café X and 310 Kelly Hall. Co-sponsorship was shared by the Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics.
The symposium consisted of two parallel sessions of 10-minute presentations by faculty and students covering a broad range of fluid mechanics research.
Plenary speaker was Professor Zhi-Jian Wang from The University of Kansas, who gave a talk titled, “Large Eddy Simulation of Vortex Dominated Turbulent Flow Using High-Order Methods.”
The 2018 Fall Fluid Mechanics Symposium took place on November 5, 2018, in Café X and 310 Kelly Hall. Co-sponsors were the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics and the Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering.
The symposium consisted of two parallel sessions of 10-minute presentations by faculty and students covering a broad range of fluid mechanics research.
Plenary speaker was Professor Predrag Cvitanović from the Georgia Institute of Technology, who gave a talk titled, “A Spatiotemporal Theory of Turbulence in Terms of Exact Coherent Structures.”
The 2017 Fall Fluid Mechanics Symposium took place on November 14, 2017, in Café X and 310 Kelly Hall. Co-sponsors were the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics and the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
The symposium will consisted of two parallel sessions of 10-minute presentations by faculty and students covering a broad range of fluid mechanics research. The plenary speaker was Professor Rajat Mittal from Johns Hopkins University, who gave a talk titled "My CFD Skills took me to Antarctica... and other Stories".
The 2016 Fall Fluid Mechanics Symposium took place on November 16, 2016, in Café X and 310 Kelly Hall. Co-sponsors were the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics.
The symposium will consist of two parallel sessions of 10-minute presentations by faculty and students covering a broad range of fluid mechanics research. Plenary speaker was Professor John Sader from The University of Melbourne, Australia. Professor Sader's seminar was titled "Molecular scale sensing in gas and liquid with nanoelectromechanical systems".
The 2015 Fall Fluid Mechanics Symposium took place on November 9, 2015, in Café X and 310 Kelly Hall.
The symposium consisted of two parallel sessions of 10-minute presentations by faculty and students covering a broad range of fluid mechanics research.
The 2014 Fall Fluid Mechanics Symposium took place on November 11, 2014, in 440 and 443 Goodwin Hall.
The symposium included a collection of short presentations by faculty and students covering a broad range of fluid mechanics research.
The plenary speaker was Michael Schatz, Professor of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, who will present a seminar on "Subcritical Transition to Turbulence in Taylor-Couette Flow".
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The 2013 Fall Fluid Mechanics Symposium took place on November 21, 2013, at The Inn at Virginia Tech.
The program included a collection of short presentations by faculty and students covering a broad range of fluid mechanics research.
The plenary speaker was Dr. Tomas Bohr, Professor of Physics at the Technical University of Denmark, who gave the Hassan Aref Memorial Lecture "Sap Flow and Sugar Transport in Plants".
The Fall Fluid Mechanics Symposium was on a temporary hitatus in 2012, and was not held.
The 2011 Fall Fluid Mechanics Symposium was held November 3, 2011, at the Inn at Virginia Tech. The 2011 symposium was dedicated to the memory of Professor Hassan Aref.
The symposium included a collection of short presentations by faculty and students covering a broad range of fluid mechanics research.
The program contained two plenary presentations:
- Hassan Aref: From Vortices to Chaos and Back Again
Mark Stremler, Virginia Tech, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics. - The “Ultimate State” in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
Guenter Ahlers, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Physics.
The 2010 Fall Fluid Mechanics Symposium was held November 11, 2010, at the Inn at Virginia Tech. Co-sponsors were the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science and Mechanics.
The 2009 Fall Fluid Mechanics Symposium was held November 10, 2009, at the Inn at Virginia Tech. The event showcased ongoing fluid mechanics research at Virginia Tech and surrounding universities. Co-sponsors included the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science and Mechanics.
The symposium was a collection of short presentations by faculty and students covering a broad range of fluid mechanics research.
Central to the program were two invited plenary presentations:
- Microfluidics: Electric fields, Fluids & Particles
Nadine Aubry, Department Head and Raymond J. Lane Distinguished Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Mechanical Engineering - Particle Entrainment Under Turbulent Flow Conditions
Panayiotis Diplas, Virginia Tech, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. (Invited presentation at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics.)
The 2008 Fall Fluid Mechanics Symposium was held November 13, 2008, at the Inn at Virginia Tech. The symposium was dedicated to Professor Demetri Telionis in honor of his retirement and for his many significant contributions to the field of fluid dynamics. The symposium included a collection of short presentations by faculty and students covering a broad range of fluid mechanics research. The symposium showcased some of the ongoing fluid mechanics research at Virginia Tech and surrounding universities.
The 2007 Fall Fluid Mechanics Symposium at Virginia Tech was held on November 9, 2007, at Holden Hall.