2008 Fluid Mechanics Symposium

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Huitt-Zollars Pavilion, Embrey Building

          
9:45 Opening remarks
10:00 Combined isotachophoretic and electroosmotic sample transport in small-scale channels
Steffen Hardt
University of Hannover, Germany

          
11:00 The interfacial mass transport in a heated liquid film sheared by gas flow
Elizaveta Gatapova
Institute of Thermophysics, Novosibirsk, Russia
11:20 Robosquid: An experimental study of propulsive efficiency of a pulsed-jet underwater vehicle
Ali Moslemi
Southern Methodist University
11:40 Micro-optical sensors based on whispering gallery mode for fluid dynamics applications
Tindaro Ioppolo
Southern Methodist University


Lunch (12:00 - 1:00)



          
1:00 Falling Paper and Flying Insects
Anders Andersen
Technical University of Denmark

          
2:00 The immersed interface method for simulating prescribed motion of rigid objects in an incompressible flow
Sheng Xu
Southern Methodist University
2:20 Self-similar solutions of the porous medium equation with platonic solid symmetries
Santiago Betelu
University of North Texas
2:40 Analysis of non-linear flows in porous media
Akif Ibraguimov
Texas Tech University

          
3:00 Multi-particle dynamics in high-Reynolds number turbulence
Haitao Xu
Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems, Germany

Organized by Vladimir Ajaev (ajaev@smu.edu) and Sheng Xu (sxu@smu.edu)