Fluid Mechanics Science and Engineering
MAE faculty research conducted in this area encompasses a wide and diverse array of topics aimed at advancing fundamental understanding and improving devices and systems for applications. Topics investigated include studies of the effect of drag mechanisms in turbulent flows, investigations of hydrodynamic particle separation in microfluidic devices, direct numerical simulation of atomization processes, large-scale modeling of transport in urban environments, and ocean fluid mechanics, among many other examples. MAE faculty research in this area employs state-of-the-art diagnostics applied from the nanoscale to scales characteristic of urban systems as well as the highest-fidelity numerical simulations.
| MAE Faculty | Research Focus |
| Ron Adrian http://enpub.fulton.asu.edu/left/ |
Drag mechanisms in turbulence, micro-detonics, instrumentation for micro flows, measurement and analysis of the structure of turbulence. |
| Don Boyer | Dynamics of transport and flow in the atmosphere and oceans. |
| Ron Calhoun | Fate of aerosols in the body, pollution dispersion, atmospheric measurements. |
| Aditi Chattopadhyay http://enpub.fulton.asu.edu/aims/ |
Reduced-order modeling and fluid-structure interaction. |
| Kangping Chen | Interfacial phenomena, microfluidics, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, transport of drug agents in brain tissues. |
| Joe Fernando http://www.fulton.asu.edu/~pefdhome/ |
Geophysical turbulence, air pollution dispersion, multiphase flows, internal waves, turbulent jets and plumes, simulation of ship and submarine wakes, urban flow simulations. |
| Marcus Herrmann | DNS and LES modeling of atomization, processes, turbulent premixed and partially premixed combustion, interface tracking schemes for massively parallel computers. |
| Pavlos Mikellides | Space propulsion, computational magnetohydrodynamics, plasma physics, hypersonics and plasma aerodynamics. |
| Michele Milano | Vorticity dynamics of flapping wings, flow-structure interaction, control schemes applied to numerical methods. |
| Jonathan Posner http://microfluidics.asu.edu |
Low Reynolds number flow and transport at micro and nano scales, electrokinetics, hydrodynamic particle separation. |
| Kyle Squires http://www.eas.asu.edu/~squires/ |
Simulation of high Reynolds number flow around complex geometries, wall-layer modeling for LES. |
| Valana Wells | Advanced rotor aerodynamics and acoustics. |
| Lun-Shin Yao | Linear and nonlinear instability, multiple solutions, moving-boundary problems, error analyses of CFD. |