Hui Hu @ Iowa State University

College of Engineering

Aerospace Engineering

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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

2018

11/14/2018: Linkai Li defended his PhD thesis successfully. Congratulations, Dr. Li!
08/10/2018: Announcement of NSF-IRES program for International Research Experience for Graduate and Undergraduate Students on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability.
05/20/2018: Dr. Pavithra Premaratne accepted a tenure-track assistant professor offer from Mechanical Engineering Department of Central College in Pella, Iowa. Congratulations, Dr. Premaratne!
04/10/2018: Zhe Ning defended his PhD thesis successfully. Congratulations, Dr. Ning!
02/01/2018: Pavithra defended his PhD thesis successfully. Congratulations, Dr. Premaratne!
01/01/2018: Haiyang Hu joins in our research group as a PhD student from Northwest Polytechnic University. Welcome, Haiyang!
01/01/2018: Avinash Saikia joins in our research group as a PhD student from SRM University. Welcome, Avinash!
01/01/2018: Dr. Hu has joined Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Elsevier, as an Editor.

2017

09/01/2017: Zichen Zhang joins in the group as a PhD student from Northwestern Polytechnic University. Welcome, Zichen!
09/01/2017: Ramsanka Veerakumar joins in the group as a PhD student from BITS-Pilani. Welcome, Ram!
07/13/2017: Haixing Li defended his PhD thesis successfully. Congratulations, Dr. LI!
06/10/2017: Wenwu Zhou accepted a tenure-track assistant professor offer from Mechanical Engineering Department of Shanghai JiaoTong University (SJTU) in Shanghai, China. Congratulations, Dr. Zhou!

2016:

09/14/2016: Dr. Hui Hu received the Martic C. Jischke Professorship in Aerospace Engineering.
05/23/2016: Morteza Khosravi defended his PhD thesis successfully. Congratulations, Dr. Khosrav!
05/18/2016: Yang Liu defended his PhD thesis successfully. Congratulations, Dr. Liu!
04/12/2016: Linkai Li received the Best Poster Presentation Award of the 3rd Graduate and Professional Students' Research Conference (GPSRC) held on April 12, 2016 at Iowa State University. Congratulations, Linkai!
02/25/2016: Wenwu Zhou defended his PhD thesis successfully. Congratulations, Dr. Zhou!
01/31/2016: Pavithra Premaratne is selected to receive Alexander Lippisch Memorial Scholarship! Congratulations, Pavithra!
01/10/2016: Liqun Ma joins in the group as a PhD student. Welcome Liqun!

2015:

08/10/2015: Linkai Li joins in the group as a PhD student. Welcome Linkai!
06/05/2015: Zhenyu Wang defended his PhD thesis successfully. Congratulations, Dr. Wang!
06/02/2015: Dr. Yan Zhang, a former PhD student of our laboratory, got a tenure-track assistant professor offer from Mechanical Engineering Department of North Dakota State University. Dr. Zhang!
04/16/2015: Morteza Khosravi defended his MS thesis successfully. Congratulations, Morteza !
04/15/2015: Kai Zhang defended his PhD thesis successfully. Congratulations, Dr. Zhang!
03/10/2015: Aerospace engineering professor selected as ASME Fellow
03/09/2015: Iowa State engineers study the benefits of adding a second, smaller rotor to wind turbines
01/31/2015: Yang Liu is selected to receive prestigious Alexander Lippisch Memorial Scholarship! Congratulations, Yang!

2014:

03/22/2014: Our recent research work on wind turbine aeromechanics received the Best Poster Award of 2014 Iowa Wind Energy Association (IWEA) Conference held in Des Moines on March 10~12, 2014.
03/12/2014: Dr. Hu is invited to give an invited seminar at Illinois Institute of technology.
02/14/2014: Iowa research could help prevent flight delays from ice. Read more at:
KCCI News: http://www.kcci.com/news/central-iowa/iowa-research-could-help-prevent-flight-delays-from-ice/24486462#ixzz2tQLCirQ5;
Ames Tribune: http://amestrib.com/news/isu-researchers-study-ice-turbines-airplanes;
The Gazette: http://thegazette.com/2014/02/13/iowa-state-university-icing-research-tunnel-could-improve-deicing-technology/.
01/20/2014: Our research on aircraft icing and wind turbine anti-de-icing is highlighted at the headline news of Iowa State University!
01/20/2014: Dr. Hu is invited to give an invited Plenary lecture on the 16th International Symposium on Flow Visualization (http://www.isfv.org/Lectures.html) to be held on June 24-28, 2014 at Okinawa Convention Center, Okinawa, Japan.
01/17/2014: Mr. Andrew Bodling (BS, UTSA) joined our group as a PhD student. Welcome Andrew!
01/16/2014: Dr. Rye Waldman (PhD, Brown) joined our group as a postdoctoral reserach associate. Welcome Rye!
01/14/2014: Wenwu is selected to receive prestigious Alexander Lippisch Memorial Scholarship! Congratulations, Wenwu!

2013:

12/23/2013: Season's greeting card for 2014 New Year!
11/16/2013:Fellowships are available to provide "International Research Experience for Graduate and Undergraduate Students" on Bio-Inspired Aerodynamics and Bio-Inspired Engineering at Shanghai JiaoTong University in Shanghai, China in 2014 summer.
08/01/2013: Our research on film cooling of gas turbine blades is highlighted on the headline news of Iowa State University!
04/18/2013: Dr. Yan Zhang was recommended to receive 2013 Research Excellence Award, Congratulations!
04/16/2013: Yan Zhang defended his PhD thesis successfully. Congratulations, Dr. Zhang
03/27/2013: The poster of our research paper, entitled "An Experimental Investigation on the Wake Interferences Among Multiple Wind Turbines over Complex Terrains” , has been selected to receive the Best Poster Award of 2013 Iowa Wind Energy Association (IWEA) Conference held in Des Moines, March 25~27, 2013.
03/22/2013: Our research paper, entitled "Development of Digital Image Projection Techniques to Quantify Surface Film/Rivulet Flows” (AIAA Paper 2012-3014)” , has been selected to receive 2013 AIAA Best Paper in Ground Testing Technology Award!
01/15/2013: Call for Paper of "2nd International Retreat on Vortex Dynamics and Vorticity Aerodynamics" to be held on 15-17 August, 2013, at Shanghai, China.
01/10/2013: An interview to Dr. Zifeng Yang, a former PhD student and post-doc of our laboratory and now Assistant Professor at Wright State University, about his study experience at Iowa State University http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzU2Njc4MTQ0.html.

2012:

12/22/2012: Season's greeting card for 2013 New Year!
12/12/2012: Our research on bio-inspired aerodynamic designs for Micro-Air-Vehicle (MAV) applications is on the headline news of Iowa State University!
10/12/2012: Fellowships are available to provide "International Research Experience for Graduate and Undergraduate Students" on Bio-Inspired Aerodynamics and Bio-Inspired Engineering at Shanghai, China in 2013 summer.
08/09/2012: Daniel Dvorak defended his MS thesis successfully. Congratulations, Dan!
07/19/2012: our research work related to wind turbine interferences over hilly terrain is featured in an article of Renewable_energy_world.com.
07/17/2012: Meilin Yu defended his PhD thesis successfully. Congratulations, Dr. Yu!
04/25/2012: Dr. Hui Hu received the prestigious 2012 ISU Award for Mid-Career Achievement in Research.
04/11/2012: Ahmet Ozbay defended his MS thesis successfully. Congratulations, Ahmet!
01/04/2012: our recent research work related to wind turbine aerodynamics is highlighted in an article of Scientific American.

2011:

12/16/2011: Season's greeting card for 2012 New Year!
12/14/2011: Our research work to investigate the effects of complex terrains on wind energy production is featured on Science Daily!
12/12/2011: Our research on wind turbine aeromechanics is highlighted on the headline news of Iowa State University!
11/12/2011: Fellowships are available to provide International Research Experience for Graduate and Undergraduate Students on Bio-Inspired Aerodynamics and Bio-Inspired Engineering at Shanghai, China in 2012 summer.
09/10/2011:A Post-Doctoral Research Associate Position in Experimental Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics is available immediately!
08/12/2011: Our research on "Molecular Tagging Techniques for Stratified Flow: Application to Boundary Mixing" is supported by National Science Foundation.
08/10/2011: National Science Foundation funds us to conduct researches on "Characterization of Surface Wind Energy Resources and Wake Interferences among Wind Turbines over Complex Terrains for Optimal Site Design and Turbine Durability" for three years.
07/14/2011: Hirofumi Igarashi receives an offer to be a quality engineer of ARK Technologies, Inc. in Chicago. Congratulations, Hiro!
07/11/2011: Travis Grager defended his MS thesis successfully. Travis has also received an offer to be a research engineer of PHYSICAL SCIENCES, INC. in Boston. Congratulations, Travis!
06/23/2011: Zifeng receives an offer to be an Assistant Professor at Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering of Wright State University. Congratulations, Prof. Yang!
06/20/2011: Our research on wind turbine aeromechanics is supported by the Iowa Alliance for Wind Innovation and Novel Development (IAWIND).
04/06/2011: Our research on "Icing physics studies pertinent to wind turbine icing and de-/anti icing" is supported by National Science Foundation.
04/04/2011: National Science Foundation funds us to establish "US-China Collaboration on Bio-Inspired Aerodynamic Designs for the Development of Next Generation Micro-Air-Vehicles".

2010:

12/14/2010: Hirofumi Igarashi defended his MS thesis successfully! Congratulations, Hiro!
12/08/2010:Travis Grager receives 2010 Fall Teaching Excellence Award! Congratulations, Travis!
12/01/2010: Prof. Xueying Deng, Dr. Baofeng Ma and Dr. Wei Tian of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA) visit our laboratory and gave an invited seminar on "The Wing Rock Motion Induced by Forebody Asymmetric Vortices and its Active Control".
08/30/2010: Our group was awarded 2010 Grow Iowa Value Fund (GIVF) to develop advanced diagnostic techniques to quantify spray flow for the development of next generation fuel injectors.
08/21/2010: Daniel Dvorak joins our research group. Welcome, Dan!
08/19/2010: Meilin and Bin are selected to receive the Alexander Lippisch Memorial Scholarship Awards! Congratulations, Bin and Meilin!
06/27/2010: Zifeng and Anand attend 28th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference at Chicago to give presentations about their research projects.
01/04/2010: Meilin and Hiro give presentations about their research projects on 48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including The New Horizons forum and Aerospace Exposition at Orlando, Florida.

2009:

12/21/2009: Zifeng Yang receives the Fall 2009 Research Excellence Award! Congratulations, Zifeng!
11/11/2009: Anand Gopa Kumar defended his MS thesis successfully! Congratulations, Anand!
11/10/2009: Zifeng Yang defended his Ph.D. thesis successfully! Congratulations, Dr. Yang!
10/02/2009: Our recent research paper, “Quantification of unsteady heat transfer and phase changing process inside small icing water droplets”, is highlighted by Review of Scientific Instruments .
08/28/2009: Our research on wind turbine icing is also highlighted by livescience.com on Wind Power at http://www.livescience.com/environment/090828-wind-energy.html.
04/29/2009: Our paper, "An Experimental Investigation on a Bio-Inspired Corrugated Airfoil” (AIAA Paper 2009-1087), has been selected to receive 2009 AIAA Best Paper in Applied Aerodynamics Award.
03/25/2009: Dr. Hui Hu is invited to give a talk at Mechanical Engineering Dept. of Old Dominion University.
02/26/2009: Prof. Koji Okamoto of the University of Tokyo visited our laboratory.
02/15/2009: Welcome Mr. Meilin Yu to join our research group as a Ph.D. student!
01/21/2009: Welcome Ms. Bin Wang to join our research group as a Ph.D. student!
01/10/2009: Dr. Hu, Zifeng and Zheyan attended 47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit at Orlando, Florida.

2008:

11/17/2008: Our research, development of a lifetime-based molecular tagging thermometry technique for aircraft icing studies, was highlighted in 2008 Annual Review of Aerospace Sciences in the field of Aerodynamic Measurement Technology published in December 2008 issue of Aerospace America.
10/28/2008: Zheyan Jin defended his Ph.D. thesis successfully! Congratulations, Zheyan!
06/30/2008: Matthew Martin is going to drive ISU solar car for cross-continental race!
06/12/2008: J. T. Murphy defended his M.S. thesis successfully. Congratulations! J. T. will be working as an aerospace engineer at Boeing after his graduation.
06/19/2008: With NSF support, Hiro and Lucas will be visiting graduate students to Visualization Laboratory of the University of Tokyo to conduct international collaborative research for three months.
06/10/2008: Our study about "Flying Rods" will be featured on the History Channel.

2007:

12/15/2007: Lucas Clemons receives Teaching Excellence Award. Lucas, Congratulations!
12/01/2007: Our research work about "Thermal-Fluid Diagnostics Using Quantum Dots (QDs)" was highlighted in 2007 Annual Review of Aerospace Sciences in the field of Aerodynamic Measurement Technology published in December 2007 issue of Aerospace America.
03/07/2007: Hui Hu, AER E and Chris Rehmann, CCEE receive 2007 Spring Research Grant Development Award
03/04/2007: Hu paper earns prestigious award . Our paper "Molecular tagging velocimetry and thermometry and its application to the wake of a heated circular cylinder" has won 2006 Outstanding Paper Award of "Measurement Science and Technology".
02/22/2006: Hui Hu awarded Career Award from NSF.