fluids – Mechanical Engineering

Meet Our New Faculty: Martin Erinin
01/16/2025

New U-M ME Assistant Professor Martin Erinin discusses his research focus, what brought him to U-M, and what he looks forward to in his new position.

Solomon Adera receives NSF CAREER Award for basic research into droplet impact
02/21/2024

Adera’s project, “Drop impact dynamics and fingering on thin liquid films,” will cover basic research into the ubiquitous phenomenon on pre-lubricated surfaces, which are common in nature.

Explaining a supernova’s ‘string of pearls’
03/14/2024

It looks like the same mechanism that breaks up airplane contrails might be at play in forming the clumps of hydrogen gas that ring the remnant of supernova 1987A.

Aaron Towne receives NSF CAREER Award for work modeling turbulent flows
01/10/2023

Aaron Towne, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has won an NSF CAREER Award for his proposal, “Scale-dependent reduced-order models for turbulent flows,” which seeks to address society’s need for cheaper, more accessible turbulent flow modeling.

Jesse Capecelatro details recent developments in computational modeling of dry powder inhalers
08/25/2022

Efforts to model air flow and track drug particles for specific drugs and patients are often costly, but a range of options are available to DPI designers for problem-solving through the complexities of achieving appropriate flows for each drug and patient, Dr. Capecelatro argues.

The science behind campus bus changes during COVID-19
08/31/2020

Engineers used smoke machines, physics-based modeling and route optimization algorithms to quantify risk.

Steve Skerlos receives 2020 Green Chemistry Challenge Award
06/16/2020

The United States Environmental Protection Agency awards Steve Skerlos with a 2020 Green Chemistry Challenge Award for his Pure-Cut technology.

Outstanding Work in Cutting Fluids Earns Award for Professor Steve Skerlos
09/23/2019

Dr. Steve Skerlos, founder and CTO of Fusion Coolant Systems and professor of mechanical, civil, and environmental engineering at the University of Michigan, has been named ThomasNet’s September 2019’s Champion for Industry.

ME Professor Receives MINTS Funding for Industrial Tech Startup
10/29/2018

ME Professor, Steve Skerlos, has raised $8 million with help of Michigan Investment in New Technology Startups, among other supporters.

Kurabayashi lab’s study using a droplet microfluidic device was published in Nature Communications
03/23/2018

Kurabayashi group and Shanghai Jiao Tong University researchers recently discovered enzymes that produce ibuprofens with record-breaking enantiomer purity.