Applied Fluids Research Group

We are very grateful to Office of Naval Research (ONR) for their support of our research project on "Dynamic Loads and Flow Structures on a Hovering Rotor Blade Above Inclined Ground" in collaboration with Dr. Nek Sharan. This project will support students to investigate influence of inclined ground conditions on rotors. More details can be found here - https://aub.ie/onr-sharan-raghav

We are very grateful to the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Army Research Office (ARO) for their support of our DOD related research by providing us funds to fabricate a large towing tank for the implementation of forward flight version of R3DV to enable research and education in fluid dynamics. You can read more about it here - https://aub.ie/durip_2024. Kudos to all the group members and thankful to the support of the college and department.

We are very grateful to the NASA for their support of our collaborative research project on Plume-surface Interactions (PSI) for Lunar landing applications. This project is an off-shoot of our earlier funded effort on experimental approaches for PSI. The project is led by Dr. David Scarborough and we are collaborating with Dr. Brian Thurow and Dr. Nek Sharan at Auburn University.

Zachary Moore (center in the photo) was awarded the best poster from Aerospace Engineering at the 2023 Graduate Engineering Research Showcase (GERS). Congrats Zach! More information can be found here - https://aub.ie/zach_gers