Welcome to DDFE

Welcome to the Data-Driven Fluid Engineering (DDFE) Lab @ Inha University!

Welcome to the Data-driven fluid engineering Lab (DDFE)! Our lab is dedicated to exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and fluid engineering to create a cleaner and more sustainable future. Our team of researchers is focused on tackling some of the most pressing challenges facing our world today, including wind power harvesting, urban flow prediction, and flooding prediction.

At DDFE, we employ cutting-edge technologies such as Explainable AIs to develop new methods for discovering drag inducing/reducing surfaces. By using big meteorological data, we are also developing AIs for fast wind prediction and more efficient wind power harvesting.

We pride ourselves on taking a unique approach to our research, utilizing data-driven methods to gain insight into fluid dynamics and uncover new solutions to complex engineering problems. Our team is dedicated to driving innovation and making a positive impact in the world through our work.


Below is a video introducing our research (in Korean). 

Recent News

(2024-01) LECTURE!
Prof. Lee gave a lecture to undergraduate students at the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineering (KSME) AI boot camp! [Youtube link]

(2023-11) NEW PAPER!
A collaborative work with KIT (Germany), Aarhus Univ. (Denmark), and KTH (Sweden) "Prediction of equivalent sand-grain size and identification of drag-relevant scales of roughness - a data driven approach" is published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics [arXiv link]!

(2023-06) NEW PAPER!
Heesoo's latest research "Effects of spatiotemporal correlations in wind data on neural network-based wind predictions is accepted in Energy [arXiv link]!
Congratulations to Heesoo for this achievement!

(2023-05) VISIT
Prof. Lee and Heesoo visit Nordita and KTH (Stockholm, Sweden) to co-organize "FLOW for Climate: Data-driven methods" and present "AI-Assisted Fluid Engineering for Sustainable Future"

What we study

Data-driven discovery of drag inducing/reducing rough surfaces

AI-assisted industrial simulations, optimizations, and designs

Meteorological & Urban flow prediction

AI-Assisted UAM Control & Guidance

Collaborators

Feel free to contact us if you have questions.