Author: KennyB

Congratulations to Alex and Zoe (who graduated last year!) on the publication of our paper  in the Journal of Fluids and Structures on the behavior of poro-elastic membrane disks.

Check out this wonderful video post on bats by Ze Franck which features a ton of videos from our group, as well as from friends and former students.

Congratulations to our lab graduates – Siyang Hao, Alex Koh-Bell and Jenya Kirsh-Posner, along with current lab member, Rehaan Irani – on the appearance (finally!) of our paper in Wind Energy on the use of an active Gurney flap to… Continue Reading →

A warm welcome to Olivia Pomerenk, who has joined us as a postdoc on a “Hope Fellowship”.  Olivia just completed her PhD with Leif Ristroph at NYU – Welcome!!

     As we approach the end of the summer, we have to say a sad farewell to several treasured lab members.  Bridget leaves us to start a new faculty position at the University of Wyoming.  Alexandre is returning to… Continue Reading →

A glorious day and a wonderful (strenuous) hike to Mt Monadnock in NH.

There was a wonderful reunion of Brown Scientists at this years DisCoVor 2025 conference.  Coming together were current  members of the Breuer lab  – Pedro Ormonde and Eva Erikson,  alumni of the Breuer lab –  Yunxing Su, Yuanhang Zhu and… Continue Reading →

Congratulations to Eva who finished in second place on CBS Survivor!  She was awesome, and even managed to talk about fluid-structure interactions on National TV!!

Congratulations to Eric Handy-Cardenas and Yuanhang Zhu – our paper “Optimal kinematics for energy harvesting using favourable wake–foil interactions in tandem oscillating hydrofoils” was published today in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Congratulations to our graduates: Siyang Hao (PhD), Keller Morrison (ScB), Chrisopher Bianco (ScB) and Rehaan Irani (ScB).  Siyang is moving to UVa for a Post Doc, Keller to Princeton for a PhD, Christopher to U. Penn for a PhD. Rehaan… Continue Reading →