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Flash of the Month:

Shedding of unsteady vortex structures from a wind turbine in ABL wind (Tian, Ozbay & Hu, Physics of Fluids, 2014)

(a). airflow velocity V=15m/s (b). airflow velocity V=20m/s (c). airflow velocity V=25m/s

Surface water rivulet/film flow over a NACA0012 airfoil pertinent to aircraft icing phenomena (Zhang, Tian, Hu, Exp. Fluids. 2015)

Picture taken at 2016 Summer HU Group's BBQ Party on 08/14/2016

Some Videos related to our research Laboratory

Flying rods project by History Channel

DRWT Design by Iowa Energy Center

KCCI News Report about ISU-IRT

Podcast Interview on Wind Turbine Icing & Anti-/De-Icing

What's New?!

Recent Research Highlights
Research Highlights on Aircraft Icing Physics and Anti-/De-Icing (updated on 03/02/2020)

01/27/2022: Dr. Hu is Interviewed by "Uptime Wind Energy Podcast" on our research on wind turbine icing and anti-/de-icing:
· iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-uptime-wind-energy-podcast/id1504249857?i=1000549110661
· YouTube: https://youtu.be/rEKkNoqWGS8
· Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7d19Rm5qK7IapGY49sFHrb?si=c68b1d7e54694334
· Weatherguardwind: https://weatherguardwind.com/dr-hui-hu-wind-turbine-icing/
07/14/2021: Zichen defended his PhD thesis successfully. Congratulations, Dr. Zichen Zhang!
04/13/2021: Haiyang defended his PhD thesis successfully. Congratulations, Dr. Haiyang Hu!
04/09/2021: Ram defended his PhD thesis successfully. Congratulations, Dr. Ramsankar Veerakumar!
03/04/2021: One of our recent research papers, entitled "A field study of ice accretion and its effects on the power production of utility-scale wind turbines", is highlighted by the headline news of Iowa State University.
03/04/2021: Our research efforts on wind turbine icing and anti-/de-icing is featured by the scientific magazine, "The Conversation", with the article entitled: "The science behind frozen wind turbines – and how to keep them spinning through the winter".
02/19/2021: Our research on wind turbine icing and anti-/de-icing has been featured by several news agencies on "Should the frozen wind turbines be blamed for the over week-long blackout in Texas with millions of Texans being affected?".
https://www.vox.com/2021/2/19/22290512/texas-winter-storm-wind-energy-power-outage-grid-fox-news
https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/iowa-wind-turbines-equipped-to-handle-extreme-cold-ice-is-another-matter-20210219
https://mashable.com/article/wind-turbines-texas/
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/wind-farms-arent-all-ready-for-icing-amid-changing-climate
https://www.forbes.com/sites/uhenergy/2021/03/02/when-to-start-planning-for-the-next-deadly-cold-wave-the-answer-is-now/?sh=1745b6dc23dd
https://www.amestrib.com/story/news/education/2021/03/07/iowa-state-study-finds-foot-thick-ice-can-reduce-wind-power-production-80-weather-winter-storms/4594328001/
02/012/2021: A Postdoctoral Researcher position opening in our laboratory!
11/06/2020: Faisal Al-Masri defended his MS thesis successfully. Congratulations, Faisal!
09/01/2020: Chukwudum Eluchie joined our research group as a PhD student. Welcome Chuk!
11/22/2019: Cem Kolbakir defended his PhD thesis successfully. Congratulations, Dr. Kolbakir!
11/15/2019: 2020 NSF-IRES Summer Intern Program for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to conduct international collaborative researches on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in Shanghai or North China Electric Power University (NCEPU) in Beijing, China. [download the application form here].
10/30/2019: Our research on wind turbine icing and anti-/de-icing is on the news headline of US energy news network: "Iowa State researchers seek solution for icy wind turbine blades".
09/23/2019: Our research on wind turbine icing and anti-/de-icing is on the news headline of Iowa State University: "Engineers study icing/de-icing of wind turbine blades to improve winter power production".
04/15/2019: Dr. Yang Liu accepted a tenure-track assistant professor offer from College of Engineering and Technology, East Carolina University, in Greenville, North Carolina. Congratulations, Yang!
04/11/2019: Linyue Gao defended her PhD thesis successfully. Congratulations, Dr. Gao!
03/01/2019: Liqun Ma defended his PhD thesis successfully. Congratulations, Dr. Ma!
01/01/2019: Website of 2019 NSF-IRES Summer Internship on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability is online.

Open Positions:

A postdoctoral research associate position is available immediately in our laboratory (updated on 02/01/2021).
RA and/or TA positions for Ph.D. study are available. Students with experimental fluid mechanics or aerodynamics background, especially with hands-on experiences of using optical diagnostic techniques such as LDV, PIV and LIF, are encouraged to apply.