Our lab is honored to be highlighted in National Geographic Magazine and Time Magazine’s top photos of 2023 – See our colleagues Sharon Swartz and Brooke Quinn flying a bat in our Animal Flight Wind tunnel. This photo was the… Continue Reading
Congratulations and bon voyage to lab members who are (sigh) moving to bigger and better things: postdocs Xiaowei He, Joel Newbolt, and recent graduates Noah Medina, Tommy Mahoney, and Oliver Sand. Best fortunes to you… Continue Reading
Congratulations to our former lab mate, Yuanhang Zhu, whose paper on swept wing aeroelastic instabilites, was published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics!
A fantastic lab presence and Brown presence at the 2023 American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS/DFD) annual meeting in Washington DC. According to Prof Tom Powers, there were 43 papers by members of the Center For Fluid Mechanics… Continue Reading
Check out the new paper on soft elastomeric membranes and their interactions with an oncoming flow. Our paper, led by lab alumni Varghese Mathai (now at UMass) and Asimanshu Das just appeared in Physics Review Letters
Congratulations to our former lab member, Yunxing Su who is moving to Colorado to start a new position at CU Boulder. Yunxing completed his PhD in our lab, but has stayed in Providence for the past few years as a… Continue Reading
As the summer winds up, we bid a fond farewell to several people: Mareesa Islam, Tanner Diring and Jayna Rybner – our wonderful “Surfing Bird” REU students. These three students spent the summer at Brown, visiting from UC Berkeley, U.… Continue Reading
Congratulations to our graduates: Yuanhang and Xiaozho who both received their PhDs. Tommy and Jenya received their ScBs – congratulations to all!
It was great to celebrate the end of the academic year with all (or most) of the members of the Breuer Lab, the Swartz Lab and the Breuer-Swartz labs. Sharon and Kenny have been collaborating together, sharing students and pizza… Continue Reading
Lab members Siyang, Eric, Yuanhang (lab member, emeritus) and Kenny at the 2023 DisCoVor meeting in Breckenridge CO.