• Recent Research Highlights!

• Areas of Research Interest:

1). Fundamental studies on challenging thermal-fluids problems:

• Aircraft/aero-engine icing physics and innovative anti-/de-icing technology.

• Wind turbine icing and bio-inspired icephobic coatings for wind turbine icing mitigation

• Wind energy, wind turbine aeromechanics and wake interference.

• Bio-inspired flows, bio-inspired designs for micro-air-vehicle (MAV) applications.

• Low-speed aerodynamics, laminar boundary layer separation, transition and flow control.

• Vortex flow dynamics, wind tunnel testing and correction for vortex flows.

• Film cooling, electronic cooling and thermal management of gas turbine blades

• Microfluidics, micro-flows and micro-scale heat transfer.

• Tornados, storms and flow-structure interactions of built structures with strong winds.

2). Advanced flow diagnostics and instrumentations:

• Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and Stereoscopic PIV techniques.

• Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) and Laser Induced Phosphorescence (LIP).

• Pressure Sensitive Paint (PSP) and Temperature Sensitive Paint (TSP).

• Molecular Tagging Velocimetry (MTV) and Molecular Tagging Thermometry (MTT).

• Quantum Dot imaging and Molecule-based microscopic flow diagnostic techniques.

 

Funded Research Projects:

• Received over 60 research grants from federal agencies such as NSF, NASA, DoE, AFOSR, NAVY, USDA and NOAA, and industry sponsors such as GE, P&W, DuPont, General Atomics, and Collins Aerospace Systems with a total funding amount over $20M (Dr. Hu's personal share over $12M).

 

Our Research Sponsors:

National Science Foundation	National Aeronautics and Space Administration	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
US Department of Energy (DoE)	US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)	US NAVY
US Department of Agriculture (USDA)