Fluid Dynamics
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.- Manipulation and control of turbulence (i.e.- drag reduction, transition control, minimum loses in flow systems, heat transfer and enhanced combustion)
- Unsteady and separated flows with application to high angle of attack aircraft maneuverability and dynamic stall.
- Dynamical systems and chaos studies in axisymmetric jet flows
- Boundary layer and wake flows
- Instability and transition
- Fluid/structure interaction
- Aeroacoustics
- Rotating flows
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Wind engineering, including building aerodynamics and atmospheric diffusion
- Non-intrusive optical techniques, as well as array and mult-sensor measurements
- Data and image acquisition, processing and multi-dimensional display, including pattern recognition
- Flow visualization
- Flow metering and fludic oscillations
Kevin Cassel
Hassan Nagib
Ganesh Raman
Dietmar Rempfer
Candace Wark
David Williams