NEWS

Nuhash and Nahid - MSME graduate students in our team, submitted an abstract to APS DFD 2025 Conference, respectively, (7/25/2025).

Postdoc associate - Dr. Chowdhury, submitted an abstract to IMECE 2025 Conference, (07/14/2025).

Dr. Zhang (as PI) received a 2025 EPIIC Seed Grant for Partnership Development award from NSF EPIIC - UMD, (07/10/2025).

Mashrur Muntasir Nuhash - MSME graduate student in our team, delivered a poster presentation in the ASME - SBC 2025, (06/24/2025). 

Chayton Borman - AMS graduate student in our team, had the opportunity to share his poster with industry partners from all over the U.S. and connect with potential employers at the  annual 2025 AMC Materials Day, (04/16/2025)

Postdoc associate - Dr. Chowdhury, Dr. Victor Lai and Dr. Ruihang Zhang submitted a review paper to Biomechanics, entitled: "Experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics of Brain Aneurysms: A Comprehensive Review", (04/07/2025)

Dr. Zhang (as PI) received a Swenson College Summer travel award (03/16/2025)

We submitted an extended abstract to SB3C2025 Conference:"COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS ANALYSIS OF PEAK SYSTOLIC HEMODYNAMICS IN HEALTHY AND STENOTIC AORTIC VALVES" (01/23/2025)

Welcome Dr. Prantik Roy Chowdhury join our group to start his new journey as the Mcknight Postdoctoral Associate (01/08/2025)

Dr. Zhang (as PI) collaborating with Dr. Victor Lai and Dr. Scott Mikesell submitted a proposal to the external fund - The Whiteside Grant (11/08/2024)

Dr. Zhang (as PI) submitted a proposal to SCSE Chancellor's Small Grant (10/28/2024)

Dr. Zhang (as PI) submitted a proposal to NSF - ERI (10/08/2024)

Mashrur Muntasir Nuhash, A B M Nazmus Salehin Nahid and Chayton Borman join our group to embark on their master's journey ~ Welcome!

Dr. Zhang (as PI) received a grant from Early Innovation Fund (EIF) from Technology Commercialization (7/1/2024 - 9/30/2025)

Dr. Zhang (as PI) received a Swenson College mentoring minigrant award (1/18/2024 - 1/15/27).

Dr. Zhang (as PI) received a grant from MnDRIVE - Data Science Initiative (DSI), University of Minnesota, to integrate a data-driven sparse sensing technique with CFD models to identify the optimal locations to represent the fluid dynamics in the open-cavity model and reconstruct 2D WSS profiles based on minimal measurements (1/1/2024 - 12/31/2025). 

Dr. Zhang becomes as a Volunteer reviewer for Fluids (MDPI Journals) (11/27/2023)

Dr. Zhang attended and presented at the SAIL (Swenson CUREs projects) Poster Session funded by Swenson Foundation (11/16/2023)

We submitted a proposal to NSF-MRI (11/15/2023)

Dr. Zhang attended the "1st Northland Complex Fluids&Materials Workshop" as a soundbite speaker (10/27/2023)

Dr. Zhang joins MIE Department, UMD-Duluth as a tenure track professor (8/21/2023)

Dr. Zhang (as PI) receives a Chancellor's Small Grants from Swenson College of Science and Engineering, UMD-Duluth (12/16/2022)