PhD students Bernardo and Mukul presented posters at the first annual Direct In-person Colloquium on Vortex Dominated Flows (DisCoVor) meeting in beautiful Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland. (May 2022)
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Grad students volunteer at KidWind Challenge
Lab members assisted in the Wisconsin KidWind Challenge, in which middle and high school teams tested out their wind turbines in a visit to UW. Thanks to the Wisconsin Energy Institute for hosting and including …
Vineet wins Faustin Prinz Fellowship
Vineet has won the Faustin Prinz Undergraduate Research Fellowship, for which he was able to present his research at the ME Design Symposium. This scholarship provides a $5000 tuition credit plus $2000 for research supplies …
Congrats to Miki for publishing his undergraduate research in JFS!
For his undergraduate research project Miki developed a method to actively change the shape of a seal-whisker inspired undulated cylinder, speeding up our simulations tremendously. The results are now published in Journal of Fluids and …
Cross-flow turbine simulations published in JRSE
Mukul’s detailed LES of the cross-flow turbine dynamics are published in JRSE (Dec 2021)
Research on wake-foil interactions of oscillating foils published in PRF
Bernardo’s research has been published in PRF in collaboration with our experimental colleagues at Brown (July 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!