ReCoVor
Remote Colloquium on Vortex Dominated Flows
Remote Colloquium on Vortex Dominated Flows (ReCoVor) is an online seminar series that emerged out of the need to facilitate scientific engagement in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Widespread social-distancing measures had handicapped what had historically been a fundamental tenet of scientific inquiry - the exchange of new ideas, critical feedback, and engagement with the broader scientific community. In view of this challenge, ReCoVor was created to serve as a forum for encouraging scientific discussion with a focus on graduate students and early stage researchers. ReCoVor was also meant to provide a platform for these researchers to regain some of the opportunities lost for presenting their work to a larger scientific community and for networking, which had resulted from cancelled conferences, collaborative visits, on-campus seminars, etc. Despite the fact that the pandemic is now in our rear-view mirror, there has been overwhelming support for continuing this online series, and in fact, the membership and participation in the series has continued to grow.
As suggested by the name, this colloquial series is focused on the flow-physics of unsteady, vortex dominated flows, particularly as it applies to fluid-structure interaction, bioflight/swimming, physiological flows, massively separated flows, and other such shear flows. If the flow is unsteady and it involves multiple interacting vortices that induce important effects on the flow, then this research probably belongs in this colloquium. Experimental, computational and/or analytical contributions are all welcome.
Rajat Mittal (JHU), Jeff Eldredge (UCLA), Anya Jones (U. Maryland)
Karthik Menon (Stanford) & Diederik Beckers (Caltech)