Research Activities

NOTES (Further information on all research activities will be updated and added. )

• Aerospace Engineering and Science

  1.  Fundamental aerodynamics

a) High-performance aerodynamic airfoil design at low Reynolds numbers

b) Wake interaction

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• 2. Bio-inspired aerodynamics

a) Unsteady high-lift generation mechanisms based on leading-edge vortices of flapping wings ()

b) Efficiency improvement due to wing flexibilities of flapping wings ()

c) Owl-inspired flow and noise control technology

• Aerial robotics

  1. Flapping wing aero-robotic design

     • Robo-hummingbird Shinshu

     • Robo-beetle Shinshu

     • Robo-butterfly Shinshu

     • (Project finished) Marsbee project , NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC)  Program
       (PI has contributed the project as the international CO-PI: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2018_Phase_I_Phase_II/Marsbee_Swarm_of_Flapping_Wing_Flyers_for_Enhanced_Mars_Exploration/)

• 2. Aerial manipulation

     • Coordination of drones and flapping-wing aerial robots

     • Swarm

• Field visualization 

  1. Low and/or reduced-order model and feature extraction, machine learning and neural network

  2. Time-dependent sound and surface pressure visualization methods
     
     
     

• Improvement in Design of Fluid Machinery and Transportation

  1. Plasma actuator-based flow control simulations and experiments

  2. Aeroacoustic simulations and measurements