Research

Recent and Ongoing Investigations

Buoyant gas release from high pressure vessels: application to hydrogen jets
Design of a biomimetic underwater propulsion system
Fluid mechanics of a vertical axis wind turbine
Fluid mechanics of a free-surface wave energy converter
Flow over a backward-facing step in proximity to a flexible wall: application to paper manufacturing
Fluid mechanics of prosthetic heart valves
Flow Structures in Fuel Cell Flow Channels
- Flow within a water droplet subjected to an air stream in a hydrophobic microchannel
- Flow Structures in a U-Shaped Fuel Cell Flow Channel
Vortex Structures in Systems with Flow-Acoustic Coupling
- Acoustically-coupled flow over multiple circular cylinders
- Flow in acoustically-coupled side branch resonators with bluff splitter plates
- Investigation of acoustically-coupled shear layers using particle image velocimetry
- Imaging of Acoustically Coupled Oscillations due to Flow Past a Shallow Cavity: Effect of Cavity Length Scale
- Imaging of the Self-Excited Oscillation of Flow Past a Shallow Cavity During Generation of a Flow Tone
- "Flow-Acoustic Coupling in a Cavity-Pipeline System". My Ph. D. dissertation.
Vortices Arising from Free-Surface Wave - Cylinder Interaction