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Advanced Flow Diagnostics and Experimental Aerodynamics Laboratory |
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| Aerospace Engineering Department | | Iowa State University | |
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Research
Areas: The research
activities conducted in our laboratory focus on two primary areas: 1).
Fundamental studies on cutting edge and challenging problems: ,
Surface slot jets and film cooling of
turbine blades , Microfluidics and micro-scale heat transfer , Thermal-fluids issues related to fuel cell technology , Aircraft icing, multi-scale flow physics, and icing physics. , Low-speed aerodynamics, laminar flow transition and separation. ,
Bio-inspired design for
Micro-Air-vehicle (MAV) applications. ,
Turbulent jet mixing and mixing
enhancement/control. ,
Wake flows of rotorcraft. , Exhaust ejector system of aero-engine. , Flow-structure interactions around buildings in tornado-like winds 2). Advanced flow diagnostics and instrumentations: ,
Particle
Image Velocimetry (PIV) , Stereoscopic Particle Image Velocimetry (SPIV) ,
Microscopic
Particle Image Velocimetry (micro-PIV) , Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence (PLIF) , Pressure Sensitive Paint (PSP) , Temperature Sensitive Paint (TSP) ,
Molecular
Tagging Velocimetry (MTV) ,
Molecular
Tagging Thermometry (MTT) , Molecule-based microscopic diagnostic techniques Funding
Agencies: ,
AFOSR ,
NSF-CAREER ,
NSF-IREE ,
NSF-MRI ,
NOAA |
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Latest update in Sept, 2005 |
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