In the computational thermo-fluids laboratory we study problems in the areas of aerodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer using the state-of-art numerical methods. Some recent projects include
  • Tandem wing aerodynamics
  • Wind turbine aerodynamics
  • Dynamic stall
  • Liquid-gas two phase jet
  • Impact of droplet on solid surface
  • Impact of droplet on thin film
  • Icing due to superlarge droplet
  • Mass transfer in microfluidics


  1. Kyle Hord will defend his Ph.D proposal on April 11th. His thesis title is "The Aerodynamics of Finite Aspect Ratio Oscillating Wings"
  2. Russell Prater and Yan Chen passed their qualify exam in the spring of 2013.
  3. From August of 2012 we started to work with GE Appliances  on various projects to improve their product design

Welcome our new group members !

Andrew Work (left) and Han Li (right)

Andrew completed his Master degree at University of Louisville 
Han completed his Master degree from Duke  University



Chaolei Zhang (left) and Guibo Li (right)

Chaolei got his Ph.D  from Xi'an JiaoTong University
Guibo got his Ph.D from Chinese Academy of Sciences