Author: KennyB

Congrats to Yuanhang who successfully defended his PhD dissertation this morning.  Yuanhang will be cleaning up a few loose ends before moving to the University of Virginia to start a Post Doc with Dan Quinn.

Congratulations to our former lab members: Varghese, Gali and Asimanshu.  Our paper on the improved performance of membrane hydrofoils for energy harvesting appeared in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics this week  

Congratulations to the seniors who have worked in the lab and who are graduating this weekend: Alex Koh-Bell, Ian Brown, Jay-Young Cho, Erin Tucker and Ilan Upfal.        

. Congratulations to Alex Koh-Bell and Ilan Upfal, both of whom were awarded a Halpin fellowship for their senior capstone projects in our lab.  Alex is working on improving wind turbine performance using an “adaptive Gurney flap”, while Ilan is… Continue Reading →

Aerosol transmission from driver to passengerCongratulations to lab alumni Varghese Mathai and Asimanshu Das on our Physics of Fluids paper on airflow patterns inside passenger cars, and the implications for airborne disease transmission.  This is a followup to our earlier… Continue Reading →

  A warm welcome to two new members of the lab:  Xiaowei He is joining as Postdoc after completing his PhD with Dave Williams at IIT.  Cameron Urban is joining as a visiting scientist, after completing his BSc from Washington… Continue Reading →

Take that Omicron! – Yuanhang and Siyang at the AIAA SciTech in San Diego.   They both presented papers  – on aeroelastic instabilities, and on Gurney flap aerodynamics.

It was great to be back at the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting – in person – in Phoenix.  Brown was represented by a wonderful group, including this crew from our lab!

Congratulations to Yuanhang Zhu and Xiaozhou Fan – they were each awarded the Sy Ostrach Graduate Fellowship for the 2021-22 academic year. This fellowship, honors students in Fluids and Thermal Science who have achieved distinction in the PhD research.

Matteo’s paper on the use of cavities to improve the performance of low-Reynolds number airfoils was published in AIAA Journal – Congratulations!