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12/2020: New paper on the design of porous materials for flow control is published in IJHFF.

11/2020: Our book chapter on soft robotics written in collaboration with Mike Tolley at UC San Diego is published!

10/2020: Andrew successfully defends his thesis!  Congratulations Dr. Chavarin!

05/2020: Christoph successfully defends his thesis!  Congratulations Dr. Efstathiou!

05/2020: Dr. Luhar is invited to participate in the 2020 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium organized by the National Academy of Engineering.

04/2020: Vamsi’s paper on turbulent flow reconstruction from non-time resolved PIV measurements is published in Physical Review Fluids as an Editor’s Suggestion!

01/2020: Dr. Luhar is awarded the 2020 NSF Career Award to pursue the development of Cellular Materials for Flow Control!  More details here and here.

11/2019:  Shilpa, Christoph, Vamsi, and Andrew present their papers at the APS-DFD Conference in Seattle, WA!

08/2019: Andrew and Vamsi present their papers at the TSFP conference in Southampton!

06/2019: Summer Update.  Anika Todt joins Prof. Beverley McKeon’s group at Caltech for the summer through the SURF program and Andrew Chavarin visits Prof. Ricardo Garcia-Mayoral’s group at Cambridge University (UK) for a research collaboration.

05/2019: Congratulations to Nina Singh and Albert Kong for earning their Bachelor’s degrees — and several awards along the way!

05/2019:  Andrew’s paper on riblets is accepted for publication in AIAA Journal.  Congrats Andrew!  A preprint can be found here.  UPDATE: the published paper can be found here; for a nice writeup on this effort, see this story.

11/2018: Lots going on!  Anika, Shilpa, Christoph, Andrew and Mark present at the annual APS-DFD meeting.  Dr. Luhar gives talks at Notre Dame and UC Irvine.

09/2018: Dr. Luhar visits the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm to give an invited talk at the Linne Flow Center.

06/2018: Anika Todt receives the USC WiSE and USC Provost Research Fellowships for this summer!  Congratulations Anika!

01/2018: Dr. Luhar recently wrote an invited piece in Nature Physics on a solution for relaminarizing turbulent flow in pipes.

01/2018: Christoph Efstathiou’s first paper (on turbulent flows over porous walls) is accepted for publication in Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Congrats Christoph!

11/2017: Dr. Luhar, along with Prof. Hemati at University of Minnesota and Prof. Taira at Florida State University organize a Tutorial and Focus Session on Modal Analysis Methods for Fluid Flows at the upcoming APS-DFD meeting.

06/2017: Mohit Tekriwal (SN Bose Scholar), Timothy Kim, and Alejandro Vilez (SHINE students) join the lab for the summer. A warm welcome to them all!

05/2017: Nina Singh just received the prestigious Astronaut Scholarship. This follows USC WiSE and USC Provost Research Fellowships–Nina’s on a roll!

05/2017: Dr. Luhar and Dr. Bermejo-Moreno judge the 10th Grade Engineering Contest at STEM Academy of Hollywood: 3D printed, solar- and hydrogen-powered cars, what’s not to like?

05/2017: Sifat Syed (BS), Chan-ye Ohh (MS), Christoph Efstathiou (MS), Changning Zhou (MS), Shen Wang (MS), and Hyunggong Park (MS) receive their well-earned degrees!

11/2016: Christoph Efstathiou, Chan-Ye Ohh, and Dr. Luhar will be presenting their research at the upcoming APS-DFD meeting in Portland.

10/2016: Dr. Luhar is selected for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program award. This work will support his research on the development of complex surfaces for flow control.

09/2016: Dr. Luhar is part of a team, led by Dr. Eva Kanso, selected by the Office of Naval Research to develop a sea star-inspired robot (StarBot) capable of locomotion and object manipulation under high hydrodynamic loads.

08/2016: Andrew Chavarin, Mark Hermes, and Shilpa Vijay join the group as Ph.D. students. A very warm welcome to them all!!

07/2016: Erik Szayna and Akash Velu join the lab for the summer as part of the SHINE program. They will be figuring out how to make spherical water-treading robots more efficient!

06/2016: Dr. Luhar presents some of his work on the Resolvent Analysis at an invited session on modal decomposition methods at AIAA Aviation (video).