Mechanical Engineering Department
Congrats to Trevor (grad student) and Kirby (former Undergrad researcher) who co-(first) authored a publication on the modulation of vortex shedding in flow over seal whiskers
Congratulations to Bernardo, who has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Bernardo will remain in Madison through August before starting a postdoc at University of Campinas, Brazil with Prof. William Wolf. (May 2023)
Congrats to Sara Hartke, PhD student, who recently won a prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship (April ’23)
Mukul will be headed to Lawrence Berkeley National Lab as a postdoc, he will be missed!
Congrats Riley on your M.S. degree! Riley will be headed to the Jacobs Space Exploration Group at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. (Oct 22)
Congrats to Bernardo on his publication in AIAA Journal on the Clustering and Classification of Vortex Wakes
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)
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 (May 2022). Congrats Vineet!
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 Structures here (May 2022).
Mukul’s detailed LES of the cross-flow turbine dynamics are published in JRSE (Dec 2021)