Breuer Lab

Lab members Siyang, Eric, Yuanhang (lab member, emeritus) and Kenny at the 2023 DisCoVor meeting in Breckenridge CO.

Congratulations to our Post Doc Xiaowei He who has accepted a tenure track faculty position at the University of Utah!  Xiaowei will start in January before heading out west!

Congratulations to Xiaozhou Fan who successfully defended his PhD thesis on Friday to a packed house!

Some new, and some long overdue welcomes to the lab.  Last September, we welcomed three new PhD students: Eva Erickson, Anoop Kiran and Ronan Gissler who joined the PhD program from Ga Tech, SUNY Buffalo and Tufts.  In January, we… Continue Reading →

Congratulations to Lab Alumnus Zijie Qu, now on the faculty at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, whose paper (from his PhD thesis) on high speed microrheology was published last week in Flow Measurement and Technology This paper combines high speed imaging,… Continue Reading →

Our lab had an impressive showing at the APS/DFD meeting in Indianapolis this week. There were TEN papers from our group with first authors ranging from Post Docs, to recently graduated PhDs, to current PhDs and undergrads.  Check out our… Continue Reading →

  We are happy to report that a paper describing the design and performance of our new wind tunnel has been published in Experiments in Fluids.  This paper outlines many of the innovative design features of this facility.  Congratulations to… Continue Reading →

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 →