Advanced Flow Diagnostics and Experimental Aerodynamics Laboratory

From left to right: Masa, Colleen, Kevin, Steve, Joe, Craig, Zheyan(Alex) and Hui, on April 27 2006.

What's New?!

• Nov. 11, 2009:  Anand Gopa Kumar defended his MS thesis successfully! Congratulations, Anand!

• Nov. 10, 2009:  Zifeng Yang defended his Ph.D. thesis successfully! Congratulations, Dr. Yang!

• Our recent research paper, “Quantification of unsteady heat transfer and phase changing process inside small icing water droplets”, is highlighted by Review of Scientific Instruments .

• Our research on wind turbine icing is also highlighted by livescience.com on Wind Power at  http://www.livescience.com/environment/090828-wind-energy.html.

• Our paper, "An Experimental Investigation on a Bio-Inspired Corrugated Airfoil” (AIAA Paper 2009-1087), has been selected to receive 2009 AIAA Best Paper Award by AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Technical Committee.

Open Positions:

Several RA and/or TA positions for Ph.D. study are available.  Self-motivated students are encouraged to apply.  

Students with experimental fluid mechanics or aerodynamics background, especially with hands-on experiences of using optical diagnostic techniques such as PIV and LIF, are highly desirable.