Associate Professor

Engineering Science & Mechanics

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

Contact Information

Email: mark.stremler@vt.edu

Office: 333P Norris Hall
(540) 231-1227

Lab: 122 Norris Hall
(540) 231-3278

Fax: (540) 231-4574

Mailing Address

Virginia Tech
Mail Code 0219
Blacksburg, VA 24061

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   elcome to my "virtual office" at Virginia Tech. I work primarily in the area of fluid mechanics, with emphasis on mixing in laminar flows and vortex dynamics. Current studies include topological chaos, mixing in microfluidic systems, and bluff body wakes. My primary focus is theoretical analysis, with computational analysis and experimental flow visualization used as supportive tools.
Financial support for my research has come from:
ARL DOD NIH NSF CIT

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News Items:

May 9. Congratulations to J. Alec Calhoun on his graduation! He will be joining Caterpillar Inc. as an Associate Engineer in Peoria, IL this summer.
April 22. "Stirring with ghost rods in counter-rotating flows" has been accepted as a lecture at the 22nd International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM2008) in Adelaide, Australia, August 24-30, 2008.
April 6. "On the statics and dynamics of point vortices in periodic domains" has been invited as a lecture at the IUTAM Symposium "150 Years of Vortex Dynamics" hosted by the Technical University of Denmark October 12-16, 2008.
April 2. "Chaotic advection in pulsed source-sink systems", with Pankaj Kumar, and "Topological fluid mechanics of stirring", with Jie Chen, will be presented at The Mechanics Conference to Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of ESM, May 29-30, 2008, at Virginia Tech.
March 31. Alirezah Salmanzadeh, a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the ESM department, has joined my research group. Mr. Salmanzadeh received an M.S. degree in aerospace engineering from Sharif University of Technology in February 2007.
March 11. W. Taylor Walsh, a junior ESM student, has joined my research group. He will be working with Kellen Shain on experimental analysis of mixing in viscous flows.
February 26. Congratulations to Jie Chen for passing his Ph.D. thesis proposal examination! His talk was titled "Topological chaos and mixing in lid-driven cavities and rectangular channels".
February 20. Kellen Shain, a junior ESM student, has joined my research group. He will be performing experimental analysis of mixing in viscous flows.
January 30. The research proposal "Glass Extrusion Process Analysis and Optimization Research", with Ron Moffitt (PI, IALR) and Gary Pickrell (MSE), has been funded by the Center for Innovative Technology through the Virginia Commonwealth Technology Research Fund.
January 10. My office has moved to 333P Norris Hall.