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Mark Stremler

Professor
  • Engineering Mechanics Graduate Chair
Mark Stremler
Norris Hall 333-P
495 Old Turner St.
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Research Areas

  • Dynamics and control
  • Fluid mechanics

Research Interests

  • Fluid mechanics, including reduced-order mathematical, numerical, and experimental models of fluid flows
  • Fluid-structure interaction, flows dominated by coherent vortical structures, mixing and separation in laminar flows, and fluid dynamics in biological systems
  • Dynamical systems theory and chaos, including topological chaos and applications to fluid motion and mixing

See Dr. Stremler's publications on Google Scholar.

  • Otto Moensted Visiting Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark, Spring 2022 
  • Guest co-Editor, Regular and Chaotic Dynamics, special issue on vortex dynamics to commemorate the 200th birthday of H. von Helmholtz, 2020-2021
  • Graduate Chair of Engineering Mechanics, 2019-present
  • Director, Multi-Scale Transport in Environmental and Physiological Systems (MultiSTEPS) IGERT Program, 2010-2017
  • Graduate Chair of Engineering Mechanics, 2014-2016
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies in ESM, 2010-2011, 2013-2014
  • Visiting Fellow, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK, 2012
  • Certificate of Teaching Excellence, College of Engineering, 2010
  • Dean's Faculty Fellow, College of Engineering, 2009 - 2012
  • Liviu Librescu Faculty Prize, 2009
  • Army Research Office Young Investigator, 2004
  • 1998: Ph.D., Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • 1995: M.S., Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • 1993: B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
  • 1993: B.S., Mathematics, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology