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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!

Congratulations to Yi Fan (former PhD in the lab, now at Google) who published a paper from her PhD thesis in Phys Rev E. on the effects of confinement on the correlations lengths in an active fluid.  One aspect of… Continue Reading →

A warm welcome to Eric Handy-Cardenas, who is a new PhD student at Brown, and is joining the lab.

Congratulations to Matteo on his new paper in the AIAA Journal on the transition to turbulence in a low-Reynolds number shallow cavity.  

Congratulations to Yuanhang and Varghese (our esteemed alumnus, now a professor at UMass) on our paper published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics on nonlinear fluid damping!

Welcome to three new Post Docs who have joined the lab in the past few weeks.  Juhi Chowdhuri joins us from SUNY Buffalo; Sakthi Swarrup joins us from IIS Bangalore and Joel Newbolt joins us from Harvard and NYU. Welcome… Continue Reading →

Congratulations to our graduating seniors who are leaving College Hill to start the next phase of their journey.  Howon Lee will be attending GaTech , Albin Wells is heading to Carnegie Mellon, and Nick Simone is going to Dell/EMC

Congratulations to Matteo, who successfully defended his PhD!