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 …
Lab news
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)
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 …
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)
Congrats to 2021 graduates Miki and Kirby!
Lab Undergrads Kirby Heck and Miki Yuasa have successfully completed their B.S. degree in Engineering Mechanics. Both are headed into PhD programs: Kirby will be attending MIT this fall, and Miki will be attending UIUC.
Trevor is awarded a SMART Scholarship
Graduate student Trevor Dunt was awarded a SMART Scholarship for the completion of his MS degree! (April 2021)
Article on intracycle control of cross-flow turbines published
Mukul’s article on the dynamics of intracycle angular velocity control of cross-flow turbines has been published in AIAA Journal (Feb 2021)