Fluid Dynamics
Research Overview
The Fluid Dynamics Research Center conducts experimental, analytical, and numerical research over a wide range of topics involving flowing fluids. The FDRC has particular expertise in the areas of Flow Control, Navier-Stokes Simulations and Low-Dimensional Modeling, Aeroacoustics, and Contaminant Dispersion simulations. Fluid Dynamics faculty includes four experimentalists and two experts in computations and analysis. Six laboratories in the Engineering 1 building house a variety of high-quality low speed and high speed wind tunnels, anechoic facilities, jet facilities and an axial flow compressor research facility. Our current research is supported by AFOSR, NSF, Boeing, Honeywell, DARPA, and ONR.
Fluid Dynamics Faculty
Kevin Cassel - Associate Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering; Associate Chair for Graduate Programs
Areas of Expertise
- Analytical and computational solutions to partial differential equations
- Application of advanced analytical techniques in the thermo-fluid sciences
- Development of serial and parallel numerical algorithms for unsteady fluid flows
- Numerical solutions of unsteady boundary-layer flows in Lagrangian coordinates
- Theoretical description of physical processes in unsteady separation
- Theoretical and numerical investigations of instabilities in boundary-layer flows
- Supersonic and hypersonic boundary-layer flows
- Unsteady mixed-convection boundary-layer flows
- Effects of vortex-surface interaction on wall-bounded flows
- Passive and active control of separation and dynamic stall on airfoils
- Fluid dynamics and heat transfer characteristics of buoyancy-driven flows with heat generation
- Computational simulations of bio-fluids
Hassan Nagib - John T. Rettaliata Distinguished Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Hydrodynamic Stability
- Transition
- Applied Turbulence
- Mixing of Laminar and Turbulent Streams
- Mixing of Two-Phase Flows
- Unsteady Flows
- Wind-Tunnel Flow Quality
- Wind Engineering and Atmospheric Diffusion
- Aeroacoustics
- Convective Heat Transfer Augmentation
Ganesh Raman- Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering; Associate Dean for Research
Areas of Expertise
- Experimental Fluid Mechanics
- Aeroacoustics
- Active flow control
- Jet Screech
- Fluidics
Dietmar Rempfer- Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Fluid Mechanics, especially Theoretical Studies of Transitional and Turbulent Shear Flows in Open Systems
- Numerical Fluid Mechanics
- Coherent Structures in Turbulent Flows
- Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
Shawn Shadden- Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Dynamical Systems Theory
- Transport and Mixing
- Modeling Mechanical Systems
- Biological Flows
Candace Wark- Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Wall-bounded Turbulence
- Experimental Methods in Fluid Dynamics
- Electronic Component Cooling
David Williams- Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Areas of Expertise
- Flow Control
- Flow Metering
- Fluidic Oscillators
- Linear and Nonlinear Wave Interactions in Transitioning Flows
- Acoustic Measurement Techniques