Research
Fluids research at U-M has a wide range of applications including:
- Naval technologies
- Automotive engineering
- Manufacturing
- Aircraft technologies
- Biological models such as the mechanics of fish swimming
- Energy Sciences
- Biomedical Devices
We have strong ties to other U-M engineering programs, including Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
Projects
- Development of laser-based and other optical measurement techniques to study reactive and non-reactive flows such as those found in combustion and internal combustion engines
- Multi-dimensional measurement of velocity during thermoplastic injection molding to understand the influence of processing parameters on final part properties and molding time
- Testing photoacoustic techniques for leak detection and their possible application to the leak testing of automobile parts and other consumer products
- Experiments to decrease the turbulent boundary layer skin friction of commercial and military transport ships
Funding
Sources include:
- National Science Foundation
- Office of Naval Research
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Department of Energy
- National Nuclear Security Administration
- Biomedical Industry
- Automobile and other commercial industries
Specialties
- Turbulence physics
- Nanoscale biofluidics
- Multiphase flows
- Electrical and radiation based tomography
- Fluid structure interaction
- Free-surface flows
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Spectral method development
- Shock waves
- Cavitation and Bubble Dynamics
- High-Energy-Density Physics