2016 updates

2016

• Nov 2016: Aaron receives the Fall 2016 Aerospace Engineering department research excellence award. Congratulations!
• Nov 2016: In partnership with General Electric Global Research, we win a 2017 INCITE computing award to investigate shock boundary layer interaction in turbofan engines using LES. The award grants 90M CPU hours on the IBM Blue Gene/Q machine at Argonne National Lab for the year 2017. Read the news here
• Nov 2016: Prof. William Devenport (Virginia Tech) gives an engaging talk about low noise wind turbine blade designs inspired by the owl
• Nov 2016: Aaron successfully defends his PhD. Congratulations and celebration are in order
• Oct 2016: Bharat’s outreach efforts through the Trinect program are acknowledged. Read the news here
• Sep 2016: Aaron and Behnam teach wind turbine aerodynamics (7 lectures) in WESEP-501 graduate course
• Sep 2016: Aeroacoustics (AERE-583X) is offered
• Aug 2016: Anupam gives a research seminar on modeling onset of dynamic stall at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base (AFRL). Read about it here
• May 2016: We receive a 2016 ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) award (25M CPU hours) from DoE Office of Science on the topic “Unraveling Silent Owl Flight to Develop Ultra-Quiet Energy Conversion Machines” Official award website; news article
• Apr 2016: Aaron passes his PhD preliminary exam
• Mar 2016: Anupam and Andrew will be working at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio for two months this summer investigating the phenomenon of dynamic stall
• Feb 2016: Our research on owl wing-inspired blade designs is funded by NSF: CBET/Fluid Dynamics program. Official award website. Read the news here
• Jan 2016: Bharat Raj Agrawal is selected as a Trinect fellow for the 2016-‘17 academic year. Bharat will be working with DPMS elementary school teachers and students to promote STEM learning. (click here)