Important Dates

abstracts due: October 26

schedule available: November 2

symposium: November 9

DFD meeting: November 18-20

Contact Information

Mark Stremler, ESM

mark.stremler@vt.edu

Pavlos Vlachos, ME

pvlachos@vt.edu

Mark Paul, ME

mrp@vt.edu

T
  he following is the scheduled list of talks to be given at the 2007 Fall Fluid Mechanics Symposium at Virginia Tech.

13:30

Welcome

13:33–13:43

The dynamics of agglomerated ferrofluid in steady and pulsatile flows

Alicia M. Williams, with Pavlos P. Vlachos

13:46–13:56

Flow structure along the 1303 UCAV

Mehmet Alpaslan Kosoglu, with Donald Rockwell (Lehigh U.)

13:59–14:09

PIV-driven computational flow simulation

John Charonko, with Pavlos P. Vlachos

14:12–14:22

Particle size concentration and meteorological parameter dynamics

Kenneth S. Ball, with Andrew Duggleby and J.L. Regens

14:25–14:35

Computational and experimental studies of fluidized beds for biomass gasification

Francine Battaglia, with M. Deza, N. P. Franka and T. J. Heindel (Iowa State U.)

14:50–15:00

Break

15:00–15:10

Fuel-efficient navigation in complex flows

Carmine Senatore, with Shane D. Ross

15:13–15:23

Particle segregation by Stokes number for small neutrally buoyant spheres in a fluid

Phanindra Tallapragada, with Shane D. Ross

15:26–15:36

Topological chaos and mixing in rectangular ducts

Jie Chen, with Mark A. Stremler, V. Somashekar and M.G. Olsen (Iowa State U.)

15:39–15:49

Stirring fluid with a 'taffy pulling' device

J. Alec Calhoun, with Mark A. Stremler

15:52–16:02

Stirring fluid with ghost rods

Mark A. Stremler, with Jie Chen

16:05–16:15

Chaotic advection in pulsed source-sink systems

Pankaj Kumar, with Mark A. Stremler

16:18–16:28

The Domm system: Vortex dynamics of wakes

Vasileios Vlachakis, with Hassan Aref

16:30–16:40

Break

16:40–16:50

A numerical dynamic contact angle model applied to droplets sliding down an incline

Shahriar Afkhami, with Markus Bussmann (U. Toronto)

16:53–17:03

Numerical simulations of an oscillating fluid layer

Nicholas O'Connor, with Edgar Knobloch, Paul Fischer and Mark Paul

17:06–17:16

The fluid-coupled motion of micro and nanoscale elastic objects

Carlos Carvajal, with Mark Paul

17:32–17:42

Quantifying the dynamics of thermoelastically driven nanoscale beams in fluid

Margarita Smith, with Matthew Clark and Mark Paul

17:57–18:00

Closing Remarks