University of Wisconsin–Madison

AIAA Journal publication on clustering and classification of wake structures

Congrats to Bernardo on his publication in AIAA Journal on the Clustering and Classification of Vortex Wakes

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)

Mukul and Bernardo @ DisCoVor in Villars-sur-Ollon,Switzerland

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)

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 us in a successful event (Feb 2022).

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 (May 2022).  Congrats Vineet!

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 Structures here (May 2022).

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)