NEWS
June 3, 2019 -- FINLAB in the news
American Institute of Physics publishes Scilight featuring coral hydrodynamics research
June 3, 2019 -- New Physics of Fluids paper (selected as Featured Article)
Monir Hossain and Anne Staples, “Passive vortical flows enhance mass transport in the interior of a coral colony”
November 18, 2018 -- FINLAB in the news
Article in Ars Technica on graduate student Maxwell Mikel-Stites' superhero research
November 17, 2018 -- FINLAB in the news
VT News article on graduate student Maxwell Mikel-Stites' superhero research
July 26, 2018 -- New Superhero Science and Technology paper
Anne Staples and Maxwell Mikel-Stites, “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Microscale respiration and micofluidic technology”
May 29, 2018 -- New Acta Mechanica paper
Krishnashis Chatterjee and Anne Staples, “Slip flow in a microchannel driven by rhythmic wall contractions”
May 21, 2018 -- FiNLab PhD student Monir Hossain accepted into the 2018-2019 Cross-Disciplinary Problem-Solving & Research development initiative hosted by Virginia Sea Grant, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, and the University of Virginia to "enhance coastal resilience to climate change."
April 24, 2018 -- FiNLab PhD student Krishnashis Chatterjee awarded Liviu Librescu Memorial Fellowship in Engineering Mechanics at Virginia Tech
April 24, 2018 -- FiNLab PhD student Krishnashis Chatterjee awarded Terry and Bonnie Alfriend Graduate Fellowship in Engineering Mechanics at Virginia Tech
March 9, 2018 -- FiNLab members present research at the American Physical Society 2018 March Meeting in Los Angeles
Anne Staples, Krishnashis Chatterjee, Philip Graybill, Anne Staples, and Rafael Davalos, “Insect respiratory network-inspired microfluidic devices act as hydrodynamic ratchets”
November 27, 2017 -- New Advances in Computational Mathematics paper
Ali Kashefi and Anne Staples, “A finite-element coarse-grid projection method for incompressible flow simulations”
November 21, 2017 -- FiNLab members present research at 70th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics in Denver
Monir Hossain and Anne Staples, “Effects of branching morphology on flow for a single coral colony”
March 1, 2017 -- New Contributions to the Foundations of Multidisciplinary Research in Mechanics article
Anne Staples and Krish Chatterjee, “A model for tracheolar flow in insects”, Contributions to the Foundations of Multidisciplinary Research in Mechanics, edited by J.M. Floryan and published by IUTAM 2: 470-471 (2017).
March 1, 2017 -- New Contributions to the Foundations of Multidisciplinary Research in Mechanics article
Monir Hossain and Anne Staples, “Simulation of flow field inside a coral colony”, Contributions to the Foundations of Multidisciplinary Research in Mechanics, edited by J.M. Floryan and published by IUTAM 2: 1123-1124 (2017).
March 1, 2017 -- New Contributions to the Foundations of Multidisciplinary Research in Mechanics article
Krish Chatterjee and Anne Staples, “Slip slow in collapsing microchannels”, Contributions to the Foundations of Multidisciplinary Research in Mechanics, edited by J.M. Floryan and published by IUTAM 2: 1224-1225 (2017).
November 11, 2016 -- New National Academies USNCTAM Report on Recent Trends in Mechanics
Sunghwan Jung, Anne Staples, John Dabiri, Alison Marsden, Manu Prakash, Kristen Davis, Shawn Shadden, Thierry Savin, Lydia Bourouiba, and Josué Sznitman, "Research trends in biological fluid dynamics"
November 1, 2016 -- FiNLab alumnus Dr. Leila Nasr Azadani accepts assistant professor position at Amirkabir University of Technology -- Tehran Polytechnic
September 15, 2015 -- PhD student Krishnashis Chatterjee and Master's student Maxwell Mikel-Stites recieve travel grants to present their research at the American Physical Society 68th Annual Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting in Boston, November 22-24, 2015
May 11, 2015 -- Dr. Staples recognized as Virginia Tech Scholar of the Week
https://www.research.vt.edu/scholar-of-the-week/anne-staples
April 9, 2015 -- FiNLab alumnus Dr. Omer San accepts assistant professor position at Oklahoma State University
January 16, 2015 -- Dr. Staples awarded Fulbright scholarship to study coral reefs in Israel
http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2015/03/032515-ictas-staplesfulbright.html
January 15, 2015 -- New Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences paper
Leila Azadani and Anne Staples, "Large eddy simulation of turbulent barotropic flows in spectral space on the sphere"
December 23, 2014 -- New International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics paper
Omer San, Anne Staples, and Traian Iliescu, "A posteriori analysis of low-pass spatial filters for approximate deconvolution large eddy simulations of homogeneous incompressible flows"
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10618562.2014.991391