TURBULENT DYNAMICS RESEARCH GROUP

Turbulence is everywhere around us. It critically affects the performance of planes, helicopters, ships, submarines, trains, cars, rockets, and more. But due to our limited understanding of turbulent dynamics, our prediction of the behavior of these technologies, especially in unsteady conditions or in maneuvers, is limited. 

In our lab, we strive to understand the dynamics of turbulent boundary layers in canonical and non-canonical conditions, towards enabling highly maneuverable technologies and improved turbulence prediction. We perform novel experiments and we translate our experimental findings into reduced-order models that capture structural and dynamic information about the flow.

Many thanks to the Office of Naval Research, the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the AFWERX program of the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Grainger College of Engineering, and the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for supporting our work!