2025 Fall Fluids Symposium

9:30-10:00 - Breakfast and Coffee in Goodwin Atrium

Session 1A

Room: 125 Goodwin Hall | Chair: O. Coutier-Delgosha, AOE

Session 1B

Room: 135 Goodwin Hall | Chair: H. Foroutan, CEE

10:00 - 10:15

1A: Influence of Detached Boundary Layers and Surface Roughness on Cavitation Inception
Kethanur Balasubramaniam, Sanjay Vasanth

1B: Biogenic Nest Structures Modulate Hyporheic Exchange: Field Observations and Turbulence-Resolving Simulations of Flow and Oxygen Transport in Streams
Yang, Huan

10:15 - 10:30

1A: Effects of Surface Wettability on Cavitation Inception and Cloud Cavitation
Chandrasekaran, Swathiga Devi

1B: 3D Markerless Reconstruction of Flying Bats and Membrane Simulation
Hu, Yihao

10:30 - 10:45

1A: Computational Modelling of Cavitation Inception and Bubble–Material Interactions
Bilal, Muhammad

1B: Dynamic Mode Decomposition for Reduced-Order Kinematic and Aerodynamic Analysis in Straight Flight of the Great Roundleaf Bat
Kamol, Banik

10:45 - 11:00 - Break

Session 2A

Room: 125 Goodwin Hall | Chair: I.-G. Farcas, MATH

Session 2B

Room: 135 Goodwin Hall | Chair: A. Untaroiu, ME

11:00 - 11:15

2A: Reynolds Stress Amplification in Shock Boundary Layer Interactions
Gioia, Peter

2B: Characterization of a Next-Generation Poly (Methacrylic Acid)-Coated Iron Oxide Nanoparticle Coupling Medium for Transcranial MRI-Guided Focused Ultrasound
Sambo, Nathan

11:15 - 11:30

2A: CFD of the aerodynamics of fog harp water harvesters
Binu, Daniel Sam

2B: A Hemodynamic Stress-driven CFD Model to Assess Risk of Atherosclerotic Progression
Patil, Harshawardhan

11:30 - 11:45

2A: High-fidelity numerical investigation of OSWEC: Effects of turbulence models, varying incident wave angle and irregular waves
Jiang, Minge

2B: A modified Ergun equation for modeling dialysate flow in a hollow fiber hemodialyzer
Sinha, Ruhit

11:45 - 12:00 - Break/ Collect lunch in Goodwin Atrium

12:00 - 1:00
HPC Lunch Workshop, 190 Goodwin Hall
Sponsored by Cambridge Computer, Invidia, and Virginia Tech ARC

1:00 - 1:15 - Break

Session 3A

Room: 125 Goodwin Hall | Chair: J. Gilbert, NSI

Session 3B

Room: 135 Goodwin Hall | Chair: M. Paul, ME

1:15 - 1:30

3A: Viscous Damping Identification for Oscillating Surge Wave Energy Converters: PQ Method and Fourier Series Method
Khan, Md Riasat Morshed

3B: Effect of Flow-Driven Shear Stress Gradient on the Motility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Saha, Sumit

1:30 - 1:45

3A: An Adaptive Low-Rank Method for the Navier Stokes Equations
Rotem, Amit

3B: Barley Leaf Billiards: Spore Liberation via Rebound Collision from Jumping-Droplet Condensation
Tapocik, Jack

1:45 - 2:00

3A: Distributed Computing for Physics-Based Data-Driven Reduced Modeling at Scale
Farcas, Ionut

3B: Gravity-Induced Cohesive Tension in Liquids
Miller, Danielle

2:00 - 2:15 - Break

Session 4A

Room: 125 Goodwin Hall | Chair: C. Gilbert, AOE

Session 4B

Room: 135 Goodwin Hall | Chair: M. Stremler, ME

2:15 - 2:30

4A: Chine Walking and Porpoising of A Double-Stepped Planing Hull in Calm Water
Roach, Olivia

4B: Diffusio-osmosis of surfactant solutions: molecular modeling and interfacial physics
Zhang, Huajie

2:30 - 2:45

4A: A dynamical systems perspective on spatial couplings in large chaotic systems
Raj, Aditya

4B: Forced Imbibition of Oil into Water-Filled Nanopores
Ahmed, Ejaz

2:45 - 3:00

4A: The Routes to Chaos of 2D Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
Thakore, Malav

4B: Ziplining Droplets on Oil-Impregnated Fibers
Malakar, Abir

3:00 - 3:15

4A: open

4B: How Condensation Frosting Depends on Surface Orientation and Wettability
Swedat, Mohammad