Miscellaneous

Photos Description: PI Zhang delivering a hands-on STEM lesson "Harvesting Energy from the Wind" to Native American students at Cankdeska Cikana Community College, North Dakota, as part of the Nurturing American Tribal Undergraduate Research and Education (NATURE) Sunday Academy Program (2023-2024) 

The PI also served as:

• Technical Judge, Real World Design Challenge (national high school student competition). (2016-2017).

• NATURE Summer Camp for ND tribal college students (2017)

• BEST Robotics project judge, NDSU, Fargo ND, USA. (2017)

• Technical Judge, ND First Lego League. (2018)

The PI is a member of several professional organizations including AIAA, APS DFD, and ASEE. The PI served as a member of AIAA Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee and has served as Session Chair for AIAA and APS DFD conferences. The PI also served as reviewer for several international journals, including International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Engineering Structures, Journal of Fluids and Structures, Journal of Thermal Science and Technology, Thermo-Mechanics Applications and Engineering Technology, Fluids, Journal of Thermal Science and Technology, Wind and Structures, Advances in Mechanical Engineering. The PI also served in multiple NSF CBET, CMMI, GRFP grant review panels.

Due to the multidisciplinary nature of our research, we seek collaborations with researchers from various disciplines. The list of our facilities and equipment are shown below.

Lab space and major facilities

• Dolve Hall 131, 2600-square-foot room

• Open-circuit, suction subsonic wind tunnel

• Blow down subsonic wind tunnel/open jet wind generator (under construction)

• Programmable pulsatile cardiovascular hemodynamics simulation system

Equipment list

• Double-pulsed Nd:YAG laser system (100 mJ; 532 nm wavelength; repetition rate ~15 Hz)

• CCD cameras (PIVCAM 10-30, 1M pixel; LaVision CCD camera Imager LX 2M pixel)

• PIV system computer equipped with synchronizer (TSI Corp.) and DaVis post-processing software package (LaVision)

• High frequency pulsed LED illuminator (Output 520-nm, 1.0 W; Innovative Scientific Solutions, Inc.)

• High frequency 6-DOF force-torque transducer (JR3 Inc.)

• Scanning pressure sensor array (Scanivalve Corp., DSA3217, 16-channel module)

• Constant temperature anemometer (TSI Corp., maximum 100 kHz sampling rate)

• BNC Digital Delay Generator/Synchronizer (Model 577-4C)

• Multiple Nikon Lenses with various focal lengths

• ThorLabs optical table

• ThorLabs optics and optomechanics

• National Instruments X-series multifunction DAQ board (USB-6341, 16AI, 24 DIO, 2 AO, 500 kS/s single-channel sampling rate)

• LabVIEW Software, Full Development System

• OriginLab 2016 data analysis software package