Category: fluids

In my PhD research, I had to deal with a lot of data.  Particularly with movies of particles moving around in water. These movies were processed, via Particle Image Velocimetry, to give vector fields of the velocity in the flow.  For an example, here’s some rough data that I took of a cylinder in flow, […]

My PhD focused on the “Experimental Generation and Modeling of Vortical Gusts and Their Interactions with an Airfoil.” You can see my thesis here. I was interested in seeing the effect of a vortex interacting with a parallel wing. Most research on the topic has been based on helicopters or propellers, but those have periodically […]