Welcome

The laboratory of Experimental Flow Control and Wind Engineering, of Mechanical Engineering of the Washkewicz College of Engineering at the Cleveland State University, aims at conducting creative research activities and providing excellent opportunities for students in broad thermal/fluids and energy systems. We pursue fundamental research on a variety of challenging topics in fluid mechanics and mass/heat transport areas, including turbulent boundary‐layer flows, laminar‐turbulent transition, vortex dynamics, particle turbulence interaction etc.. Such information is the key to achieve improved understanding of complex flow physics and develop effective flow control strategy as well as physics-based numerical models. Advanced thermal and flow measurement techniques, in particular planar and volumetric Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) are the major tools to quantify the turbulent flow structure of different length and time scales. In addition, we closely work with numerical modellers and field scientists to produce Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) validation-quality data sets and develop new models for mechanical, aeronautical, civil and environmental applications.

Recent News

• Jan. 2023: The NSF IRES application is open! You can find the program information on the IRES website and apply on NSF ETAP. Look for the opportunity entitled "BioFLOW Research in South Korea (Summer 2023)"

• Sep. 2022: Dr. Zhang will work on an NSF REU site project entitled "Great Lakes Wind Energy Challenges" with a team of faculty from CUS and Case Western Reserve University. The student recruitment will start in Jan. 2023

• June 2022: NSF IRES student cohort travels to POSTECH for their seven-week summer research experience. See here.

• May 2022: Erick successfully defended his Master's thesis and Marcus defended his Horner's thesis. Congratulations to Erick and Marcus!