Research

Research goals of our group are to investigate behavior of complex engineering and physical systems by developing and applying advanced high-performance computational tools combining different physical models through multicode/multiphysics coupling and integrative simulations on massively parallel computers.

Currently Active Projects

• Fluid-Structure Interaction
• Turbulent Drag Reduction in Pipe Flow with Azimuthally Oscillated Walls
• Discontinuous Galerkin Spectral Elements for Compressible Flow
• Bluff-Body Wakes and their Low-Order Dynamics (NSF CBET)
• Optimization of Biomimetic Locomotion and Collective Swimming (NSF CMMI)

Other Projects of Interest

• Wind Turbine Wake Simulations and Coupling with Doppler Lidar Measurements (NSF CBET)
• Dynamics of Coherent Structures in Turbulent Rayleigh-Benard Convection
• Development of Overlapping and Moving Grid Capabilities with High-Order Methods (NSF CMMI)
• Flow and Heat Transfer Simulations in a Porcupine Solar Receiver (AORA Solar)
• Computation and Analysis of Hemodynamic Flow from Patient-Specific Geometries
• Multi-fidelity Uncertainty Quantification for Large-Scale Computations
• Flow Drag Reduction with Wavy Riblets
• Heat Transfer and Cooling in Gas Turbine Systems