Advanced Flow Diagnostics and Experimental Aerodynamics Laboratory

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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