One giant gulp for mankind! Fermented Fluid Mechanics Forum (FFMF)

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Q: What is the Fermented Fluid Mechanics Forum?
A: The FFMF is a happy hour with an aerospace flavor.

Imagine what it might have been like to go with your colleagues to a brew-pub after work to talk with Wernher von Braun about your favorite moon-landing ideas. This is the essence of the Fermented Fluid Mechanics Forum (FFMF), an informal technical discussion series brought to you by the SF Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. FFMF events will be held on the day selected by the motivated Young Professionals director.

If you have some interesting ideas for Fermented Fluid Mechanics Forum topics, some other pubs at which to hold the FFMF, or if you have questions about the FFMF, please contact Tamika Rentas.

RECENT FFMF

AIAA Young Professionals and Fellows Speed Networking Event

Young professionals & oldsters at Tied House

 The next Fermented Fluid Mechanics Forum (FFMF) is scheduled for April 24. The featured topic will be:

If aerospace is the pursuit of FASTER HIGHER FARTHER, then Thursday night's AIAA-SF activity is the pursuit of FASTER HIGHER SMARTER. It's "speed networking" between AIAA young professionals (members 35 and under) and AIAA Fellows (AIAA's most distinguished inventors, teachers, aviators...) in the comfortable surroundings of the Tied House Brew Pub in Mountain View.

FASTER: Cover more ground in 5 minutes with an AIAA luminary than Yeager covered at Mach 1.
HIGHER: Get the views of people who've rocketed up through the professional atmosphere and have experienced our profession at the highest altitudes.

SMARTER: Emerge smarter, better equipped, and better connected. Take off!

Please join us for be free appetizers and craft beers for purchase.  Be faster, higher, smarter!

We have invited section fellows.  Hopefully they will be able to shed some light on this bewildering array of acronyms and offer their thoughts on the prospects of technology. Their attendance is not yet confirmed. So check the website occasionally for the latest information. Bring your friends and colleagues, and we'll see you there!

Venue: Tied House, 954 Villa St., Mountain View
Date: Thursday, April 24, 2008
Time: 6:00 pm until at least 8:pm

Interesting Links

Have any suggestions? Please send them to Tamika Rentas. 

Beer Tale o' the Month

WHY BUBBLES FLOAT DOWN IN A GLASS OF GUINNESS A computer simulation has been used to show that even though bubbles float up, they also go down in a glass of Guinness. Professor Clive Fletcher and students at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, used FLUENT computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software from Fluent Inc. to illustrate that bubbles go both up and down in a glass of Guinness. Fletcher's team used the software to simulate the motion of the bubbles and discovered that, as expected, most bubbles do move upwards. The bubbles in the center of the glass, free from the effects of the glass wall, move upwards most quickly and drag liquid with them. But the liquid moving up in the center of the glass, having nowhere else to go, must eventually turn towards the walls and start to move downward. The liquid moving downward near the walls tries to drag down bubbles with it. Larger bubbles have sufficient buoyancy to resist but smaller bubbles are continuously dragged to the bottom of the glass.
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