Bernardo’s research has been published in PRF in collaboration with our experimental colleagues at Brown (July 2021)
Year: 2021
Grad student earns Department of Defense SMART scholarship
Press release on Trevor’s SMART scholarship! (Oct 2021)
New ARPA-E SHARKS program with UWash on cross-flow turbine arrays
The lab is excited to begin working with collaborators at U. Washington, NREL and Oberon Insights on an ARPA-E sponsored program within SHARKS (Submarine Hydrokinetic And Riverine Kilo-megawatt Systems). The goal is to generate a …
How seal whiskers can help engineers design innovative technology
UW article on the group’s recent NSF award and on-going research of flow around seal whisker geometries (July 2021).
5 Animals With Superpowered Senses
See a shout-out to our research on seal whisker topography in this fun SciShow clip!
The Lab Report: Computational Flow Physics and Modeling Lab explores fluid dynamics of turbine arrays
Read more about Undergraduate Vineet Pasumarti’s research on cross-flow turbines, recently featured in the University’s Badger Herald (Mar 2021).
How Engineers of New Energy Technology Are Taking Cues From Nature
Article by Shweta Narayan highlighting bio-inspired research and development in renewable energy.
Focus on new faculty: Jennifer Franck is modeling complicated flows to improve energy systems
College of Engineering science writer Adam Malecek gives an overview of the lab after it’s move to Madison.
Scientists At Mass. Maritime Find Success With Underwater Turbine
Local news article on round 2 of the Leading Edge oscillating foil prototype that the lab helped design and build while at Brown University (Apr 2016)
Machine learning article on wake clustering published
A journal article on machine learning on wake clustering has been published in Biomimetics and Bioinspiration! (May 2021)