The department’s resources include a large wind tunnel, a water channel and high performance computing capability which enable students to conduct world-class experiments in a wide range of Fluid Mechanics fields.
| CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS | ||
|---|---|---|
| Title of Grant | Funding Agency | Investigator(s) |
| Reduced Order Modeling of Shear Layers | Sandia National Laboratory (SNL) | Mingjun Wei |
| Development of Scaled Hummingbird Models for Studying the Dynamics of Hovering and Low Speed Forward Flight | Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) | James Allen, Banavara Shashikanth, Ou Ma & MS students Humberto Bocanegra-Evans and Ramiro Chavez-Alarcon |
| Flapping and Twisted Wings for Propulsion | Army High Performance Research Center (AHPCRC) | Mingjun Wei and Banavara Shashikanth |
| Flapping Wing Aerodynamics and Control for Maneuverable Hovering Micro Air Vehicles | Air Force – STTR | James Allen and Banavara Shashikanth |
| Development of Hybrid Gaskinetic Scheme for Complex Flows with Multi-Scales and Multi Physics | NSF | Chunpei Cai |
| Multi-Scale Gaskinetics/Particle (MGP) Simulations for Rocket Plume/Lunar Dust Interactions | NASA-STTR | Chunpei Cai |
| A Unified Multi-Dimensional Gaskinetic Hybrid BGK-DSMC Method for Non-equilibrium and Chemically Reacting Flows | NASA-SBIR | Chunpei Cai |
| Development of a DSMC-PIC Particle Simulation Package GRASP (General Rarefied Gas Flow Simulation Package) | ZONA Technology, Inc. and NMSU | Chunpei Cai |
| Gaskinetic Scheme for Micro-Flow with Heat Transfer | NSF | Chunpei Cai |