Physics of Fluids
Physics of fluids refers to research in areas closer to applied physics than to direct technical applications. Present active research includes studies in gas dynamics and hypervelocity flows; diffraction and focusing of shock waves; detonation waves; shock-induced Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmeyer-Meshkov instabilities; transient supersonic jets; structures and mechanics in transition and turbulence; two-phase flows and turbulent mixing; combustion and flows with phase change; experimental manipulation and control of wall-bounded flows for improved flow characteristics, such as reduction of drag, noise, and structural loading; vortex dynamics; singularity formation and instabilities in microelectrofluidic flows; theory of non-normality and instability, and numerical simulation of flows at a range of Reynolds numbers; interface control for high order nonlinear systems.
- Quantitative Full-scale Wind Turbine Flow Measurements
- Compact Self-Contained Underwater Velocimetry Apparatus (SCUVA) for In Situ Field Measurements
- Vortex-enhanced Propulsion
- Shock wave—Boundary Layer Interaction for Reflected Detonations
- Impact of ocean turbulence on swimming and feeding
- Morphing Surfaces for Flow Control
- Modeling of Wall Turbulence
- Experiments in High Reynolds Number Wall Turbulence
- Theoretical Analyses of Animal Wake Vortex Stability
- Lagrangian and Vorticity-field Geometry of Turbulent Flows
Faculty
Joanna Austin
Professor of Aerospace
John O. Dabiri
Centennial Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering
Paul E. Dimotakis
John K. Northrop Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Applied Physics
Morteza (Mory) Gharib
Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Medical Engineering; Booth-Kresa Leadership Chair, Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies; Director, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories; Director, Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies
Beverley J. McKeon
Theodore van Karman Professor of Aeronautics
Dan Meiron
Fletcher Jones Professor of Aeronautics and Applied and Computational Mathematics
Dale I. Pullin
Robert H. Goddard Professor of Aeronautics
Joseph E. Shepherd
C. L. "Kelly" Johnson Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering
Sandra M. Troian
Professor of Applied Physics, Aeronautics, and Mechanical Engineering