Media
Can we harness the power of the oceans?
Check out our lab’s educational video on marine energy and our work on oscillating marine energy turbines aimed at high school students, created by Futurum Careers (Dec ’22)
How do airplanes fly?
Check out the latest video in the series ‘Were U Wondering?’
Bernardo receives Grainger Distinguished Graduate Fellowship
Congrats to Bernardo on receiving the prestigious Grainger Fellowship through the College of Engineering! (Nov 22)
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 …
Grad student earns Department of Defense SMART scholarship
Press release on Trevor’s SMART scholarship! (Oct 2021)
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.