Introduction
Much of our work is driven by our desire to see and conceptualize the world around us. We strive to find sharp and intuitive answers to inter-connected puzzles in complex systems. Our current research is centered about insect flight and falling leaves, which are two grains of sand in which we see the world of unsteady fluid dynamics, learn about the physical principle of flapping flight, gain insights about efficient locomotion in fluids, and find clues to the role of aerodynamics on the evolution of the flapping flight in nature. We use computers, theoretical analyses, and table-top experiments to unravel the essential mechanisms and acquire intuitions about these systems.
Learn more about our research in
Insect Flight
Falling Paper
Computational Fluid Dynamics and Vortex Dynamics
Turbulence, Turbulent Diffusion, and Random Matrices
Last Update:
28 July 2011
28 July 2011