Current research topics:

• Turbulence at Reynolds numbers typical of Navy operations
• SLIPS: Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces for turbulent drag reduction at high Reynolds number
• Bio-Inspired flexible propulsors for fast, efficient swimming:  What physics are we missing?
• The structure of stably stratified boundary layers
• Aerodynamics of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWT)
• Fluid/structure interactions on flexible cylinders and curved cylinders

Past research topics:

• Stereoscopic visualization of turbulent boundary layers
• MHz rate imaging on elliptic cones in Mach 8 flow using Filtered Rayleigh Scattering
• High Reynolds number pipe flows (follow the sublink to SuperPipe).
• High Reynolds number Testing Facility: a wind tunnel for very high Reynolds number flows
  (follow the sublink to SuperTunnel or HRTF).
• Control of Taylor-Couette flows
• Supersonic combustion and mixing (follow the sublink to the supersonic combustion facility).
• Compressible turbulence
• Transition in supersonic flows
• For the most recent results and developments, see What’s New.