In case you are attending APS DFD 2023, here are the talks from our lab: meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD23/… meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD23/… meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD23/… meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD23/… meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD23/…

First slide of my #APSDFD talk. meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD23/…

FSI lab members (current, visiting, and former) at the ⁦⁦⁦APS Division of Fluid Dynamics⁩ meeting 2023.

It was an honor to give a flash talk at the National Academy of Sciences ⁦National Academy of Sciences⁩ last night on our piece from “in the wake” with ⁦Pari Riahi⁩ ⁦UMass Amherst⁩ that is on display at the Traveling Gallery of Fluid Motion ⁦⁦APS Division of Fluid Dynamics⁩.

In our work just published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics, we show a new mode of shedding in the wake of a cylinder forced to oscillate in viscoelastic flow, that is caused entirely by fluid's viscoelasticity. These are the elongated red and blue regions in the video. doi.org/10.1017/jfm.20…

This is an image of our sculpture in the catalog of the Gallery of Fluid Motion's exhibit: “Chaosmosis: Assigning Rhythm to the Turbulent” that is on display at the Gallery of the National Academy of Sciences in DC. cpnas.org/exhibitions/ar…

These elongated S-shaped vortices are shed in the wake of a flexibly-mounted cylinder that oscillates as it interacts with the incoming inertial-elastic flow. From our paper just published in the Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics: authors.elsevier.com/a/1iIIO1LkSaIc…

When a square prism does not want to oscillate in flow despite an initial push. doi.org/10.1016/j.jflu…

And, when a square prism does want to oscillate in flow, even without any initial push. doi.org/10.1016/j.jflu…

These are angular oscillations of a cylinder placed in flow. When the cylinder is allowed to oscillate in a convex orientation (right), it reaches larger amplitudes compared with when it is allowed to oscillate in the concave orientation (left). doi.org/10.1016/j.jflu…

Formation of vortices in the wake of an oscillating cylinder.

I am honored to be elected a Fellow of ASME. ASME.org

Following Exactitude, published in 2022, comes Multiplicity: On Constraint and Agency in Contemporary Architecture, our second edited volume, co-edited with L. Katsaros and Michael T. Davis, published beautifully by UMass Press and with contributions from 11 scholars.

This is a fractal-cut kirigami sheet placed in flow. The kirigami sheet buckles at higher flow velocities and passively controls the direction of jets that are formed downstream of the sheet. From our paper just published in Extreme Mechanics Letters: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S23…

Flow through a deployed ribbon-cut kirigami sheet. Here is a link for free access to the paper: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jTL78MuOhJf…

Vortices that are formed during the tail-flip escape response of crayfish. From our paper in collaboration with Ethan Clotfelter, and our students Luis X de Pablo and Adrian Carleton, just published in [email protected]. Here is a link to the paper: academic.oup.com/iob/article/6/…

The response of a closed-loop kirigami pattern in flow. The kirigami sheet undergoes a large elongation in the direction of flow, but despite this large elongation, the sheet does not experience any flow-induced instability. From our recent paper in EML: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jTL78MuOhJf…

This is a clip from our submission to the Gallery of Fluid Motion APS DFD. The complete video is here: youtube.com/watch?v=xZiVyU…

This is the winning video that Sudhansh Tanneru from our lab submitted to the Graduate Gallery Competition at UMass Mechanical & Industrial Engineering UMass Amherst.

We look forward to working on this new project supported by U.S. National Science Foundation at UMass Amherst in collaboration with Luca Caracoglia Northeastern U. to derive a model to predict the influence of turbulence on flow-induced instabilities of offshore wind turbine blades. nsf.gov/awardsearch/sh…