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Congratulations to Xiaozhou!  His paper on the power requirements for flapping flight appeared today in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

Alovely evening last night at Flatbread Pizza to celebrate so many achievements:  Congratulations to Yuanhang in receiving his PhD.  Bon Voyage to: Cameron Urban who is leaving us to attend graduate school at Cornell; to Sonja Friman who is moving… Continue Reading →

Two lovely, and quite distinct papers were published recently,  The first –  with our former PhD student Jorn Cheney, and Jeremy Rehm, is on the way bats use the muscles in their wings to control wing camber during flight. This… Continue Reading →

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.