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2014 Fall Fluid Mechanics Symposium Schedule

  • Coffee, Light Refreshments, and Opening Remarks
    8:30-9:00, 440 Goodwin
  • Coffee and Light Refreshments
    9:00, 440 Goodwin
  • Opening Remarks, Mark Paul

Session I: 9:00 - 10:00 am

  • Chair: Mark Paul (440 Goodwin) and Mu Xu (443 Goodwin)
    9:00-9:15, 440 Goodwin
  • How dogs drink
    Sean Gart, Jake Socha (Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics), Pavlos Vlachos (Purdue University), Sunghwan Jung (Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics)
    9:00-9:15, 443 Goodwin
  • Marangoni flow induced self-assembling of nanomotors
    Fengchang Yang (Mechanical Engineering), Yiping Zhao (Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia) Rui Qiao (Mechanical Engineering)
    9:15-9:30, 440 Goodwin
  • Mosquitoes drink with a burst in reserve: explaining pumping behavior with a fluid mechanics model
    Souvick Chatterjee, Jake Socha, Mark Stremler (Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics)
    9:15-9:30, 443 Goodwin
  • Diffusion-based coarse graining in hybrid continuum-discrete solvers
    Rui Sun, Heng Xiao (Aerospace and Ocean Engineering)
    9:30-9:45, 440 Goodwin
  • Modulation of forces in water-based jumps by the frog Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis
    Talia Weiss, Sunny Jung (Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics), Pavlos Vlachos (Purdue University), Jake Socha (Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics)
    9:30-9:45, 443 Goodwin
  • Functional compartmentalization in the hemocoel of the American locust
    Khaled Adjerid, Hodjat Pendar (Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics) Jon F. Harrison (Arizona State University), Jake Socha (Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics)
    9:45-10:00, 440 Goodwin
  • Feedback control of vortex shedding by cylinder rotation
    Jeff Borggaard, Serkan Gugercin (Mathematics)
    9:45-10:00, 443 Goodwin
  • Flow-induced oscillations of tandem tethered cylinders in a channel flow
    Gary Nave, Tyler Michael (Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics), Pavlos Vlachos (Purdue University), Mark Stremler (Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics)
    10:00-10:15

Break


Session II: 10:15 - 10:45 am

  • Chair: Lu Chen (440 Goodwin), Brian Robbins (443 Goodwin)
    10:15-10:30, 440 Goodwin
  • Assessing the effects of biomass ratio on the fluidization behavior of coal-biomass mixtures
    Bahareh Estejab, Francine Battaglia (Mechanical Engineering)
    10:15-10:30, 443 Goodwin
  • Accounting for model discrepancies in uncertainty propagation with a multi-model strategy: proof of concept for CFD applications
    Jianxun Wang, Heng Xiao (Aerospace and Ocean Engineering)
    10:30-10:45, 440 Goodwin
  • High speed and multidimensional flow and flame diagnostics
    Lin Ma (Aerospace and Ocean Engineering)
    10:30-10:45, 443 Goodwin
  • Comparison of two-dimensional turbulence on the surface of a sphere with two-dimensional turbulence on a plane
    Leila Azadani, Anne Staples (Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics)
    10:45-11:00

Break

  • Invited Seminar: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
    Chair: Mark Paul
    11:00-12:00, 440 Goodwin
    Subcritical transition to turbulence in Taylor-Couette flow
    Michael Schatz


Lunch: 12:00 - 1:30 pm

On your own


Session III: 1:30 - 2:30 pm

  • Chair: Mark Paul (440 Goodwin) and Leila Azdani (443 Goodwin)
    1:30-1:45, 440 Goodwin
  • Comparative study of k-ε, turbulence models in the bluff-body flame
    Lu Chen, Francine Battaglia (Mechanical Engineering)
    1:30-1:45, 443 Goodwin
  • A generalized dynamical framework for non-equilibrium gliding in animals
    Isaac J. Yeaton (Mechanical Engineering), John J. Socha, Shane D. Ross (Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics)
    1:45-2:00, 440 Goodwin
  • Catenaries in drag
    Brato Chakrabarti, James Hanna (Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics)
    1:45-2:00, 443 Goodwin
  • Covariant Lyapunov vectors of chaotic Rayleigh-Benard convection
    Mu Xu, Mark Paul (Mechanical Engineering)
    2:00-2:15, 440 Goodwin