Research interests
Computational Fluid Dynamics, High Performance Parallel CPU/GPU Computing;
Fluid-Structure Interaction, Energy Harvesting Techniques, Aeroelasticity;
Flapping Wing Aero/hydrodynamics, Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs), Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs);
Turbulent Flow Simulation and Control, Thermal Fluids;
Biological Fluid Dynamics;
Machine/deep learning;
High-Order Accurate Numerical Methods, Unstructured Deformable Grids;
Atmospheric Numerical Models.
Teaching interests
Fluid mechanics
Computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer
Aerodynamics
Scientific machine learning
Fluids/Energy labs
Education
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Ph D, Aerospace Engineering
— Iowa State University (2012) Numerical and Experimental Investigations on Unsteady Aerodynamics of Flapping Wings
Publications
- Learning-based Adaptive Gust Mitigation with Oscillating Wings 2023
- Sub-grid Scale Modeling of Meso-scale Hurricane Boundary Layer Flows using Machine Learning 2023
- The Effects of Numerical Dissipation on Hurricane Rapid Intensification With Observational Heating 2022
- Performance Analysis and Optimization of a Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine with a High Tip Speed Ratio 2021
- Performance Analysis of Vertical Axis Water Turbines under Single-phase Water and Two-phase Open Channel Flow Conditions 2021
- Enhancing Wind Energy Harvesting Performance of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines with a New Hybrid Design: a Fluid-Structure Interaction Study 2019
- Efficient uncertainty quantification for biotransport in tumors with uncertain material properties 2018
- Numerical Study of Flapping-Wing Flow Physics in Nonuniform Freestream Using the High-Order Spectral Difference Method on Dynamic Unstructured Grids 2018
- Compact Direct Flux Reconstruction for Conservation Laws 2018
- On the parallel implementation and performance study of high-order Rosenbrock-type implicit Runge-Kutta methods for the FR/CPR solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations 2018
- Evolution of Vortex Structures over Flapping Foils in Shear Flows and Its Impact on Aerodynamic Performance 2018
- Investigation of biotransport in a tumor with uncertain material properties using a non-intrusive spectral uncertainty quantification method. 2017
- Stochastic modeling of biotransport in a tumor with uncertain material properties. 2017
- Understanding Unsteady Flow Physics of Two Types of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines with a Fluid-Structure Interaction Approach 2017
- A high-order flux reconstruction/correction procedure via reconstruction formulation for unsteady incompressible flow on unstructured moving grids 2016
- Investigation of Biotransport in a Tumor with Non-Homogeneous Permeability Using A Non-Intrusive Polynomial Chaos Approach. 2016
- Site Characterization and the Aerodynamics of An Offshore Wind Power Plant - Statistical, Numerical and Analytical Approaches 2016
- Homotopy Continuation of the High-Order Flux Reconstruction/Correction Procedure via Reconstruction (FR/CPR) Method for Steady Flow Simulation 2016
- A Comprehensive Aero-Hydro-Structural Analysis of a 5-MW Offshore Wind Turbine System: Towards Cost-Effective Deployment of Offshore Wind Turbines in Maryland 2016
- A High-Order Dual-Time Stepping FR/CPR Method for Unsteady Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations on Unstructured Moving Grids 2016
- Direct Numerical Simulation of Shock/Boundary Layer Interaction over Surface Roughness Using the High-Order FR/CPR-LLAV Method 2016
- Localized artificial viscosity stabilization of discontinuous Galerkin methods for nonhydrostatic mesoscale atmospheric modeling 2015
- High-Order Numerical Simulation of Shock/Boundary Layer Interaction over Surface Roughness Using the FR/CPR-DG Method 2015
- Towards Efficient Simulation of Unsteady Incompressible Flows Using Dual-Time Stepping CPR-DG Methods on Unstructured Moving Grids 2015
- Numerical optimization of flapping foil kinematics using high order spectral difference method 2014
- Comparative Study of Shock-Capturing Methods for High-Order CPR: MLP and Artificial Viscosity 2014
- Shock Capturing for the Correction Procedure via Reconstruction Method Using Artificial Viscosity and Diffusivity 2014
- Impact of Mean Flow Shear on the Wake Vortical Structure behind Oscillating Airfoils 2014
- A Comprehensive Aero-Hydro-Structural Analysis of a 5-MW Offshore Wind Turbine System
Presentations
- Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Detecting Stealthy Long-Term Cyber Attacks on Wind Energy Systems 2025
- Coupled High-order Flux Reconstruction Method and Actuator Disk Models for Wind Energy Applications 2025
- A High-Order Computational Framework for Wind Farm Modeling Using Flux Reconstruction and Actuator Disk Models 2025
- Evaluating Machine Learning-Enhanced Sub-Grid Scale Stress Models With Invariance Embedding for Meso-Scale Hurricane Boundary Layer Flows 2025
- Spectral Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Flow Analysis of Gust Mitigation With the Morphing Airfoil Technology at Low Reynolds Number 2025
- High-order Auto-dealiasing Flux Reconstruction Method for Multicomponent and Multiphase Flow Simulations 2025
- Invariance-Embedded Machine Learning Sub-Grid-Scale Stress Models for Meso-Scale Hurricane Boundary Layer Simulations 2025
- Comparison of Several Neural Network-Enhanced Sub-grid Scale Stress Models for Meso-scale Hurricane Boundary Layer Flow Simulation 2025
- Learning-based Adaptive Gust Mitigation with Oscillating Wings 2023
- Sub-grid Scale Modeling of Meso-scale Hurricane Boundary Layer Flows using Machine Learning 2023
- Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulation Using the High-order CFD Method with Application to Renewable Energy Harvesting 2021
- A comparison between functional derivative-based global sensitivity analysis and mixed Karhunen-Loeve active subspace analysis of flows through porous media with uncertain material properties 2019
- An implicit adaptive high-order flux reconstruction framework for scale-resolving simulation of unsteady flows over moving complex geometries 2019
- Analysis of the self-starting capability of a new hybrid vertical axis wind turbine with a fluid-structure interaction approach 2019
- Bio-inspired flows in unsteady environments. Part I: highly unsteady ambient flows 2019
- Bio-inspired flows in unsteady environments. Part II: crosswind gusts 2019
- Bio-inspired flows in unsteady environments. Part III: mean flow shear 2019
- A p-multigrid flux reconstruction method for the steady Navier-Stokes equations 2019
- Jacobian-free implicit p-adaptive high-order compact direct flux reconstruction methods for unsteady flow simulation 2019
- A combined experimental and computational study of a vertical gust generator in a wind tunnel 2019
- Towards high-order accurate numerical simulation of unsteady flow physics over domains with large deformation 2019
- Numerical Study of Flapping-Wing Flow Physics in Nonuniform Freestream Using the High-Order Spectral Difference Method on Dynamic Unstructured Grids 2018
- On the parallel implementation and performance study of high-order Rosenbrock-type implicit Runge-Kutta methods for the FR/CPR solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations 2018
- Compact Direct Flux Reconstruction for the Navier-Stokes Equations on Dynamic Meshes 2017
- Nodal Space-Time Flux Reconstruction Methods for Conservation Laws 2017
- A Preconditioned Flux Reconstruction/Correction Procedure via Reconstruction Formulation for Unsteady Low Mach Number Flows on Dynamic Unstructured Meshes 2017
- Understanding Unsteady Flow Physics of Two Types of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines with a Fluid-Structure Interaction Approach 2017
- Site Characterization and the Aerodynamics of An Offshore Wind Power Plant - Statistical, Numerical and Analytical Approaches 2016
- A Comprehensive Aero-Hydro-Structural Analysis of a 5-MW Offshore Wind Turbine System: Towards Cost-Effective Deployment of Offshore Wind Turbines in Maryland 2016
- A High-Order Dual-Time Stepping FR/CPR Method for Unsteady Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations on Unstructured Moving Grids 2016
- Direct Numerical Simulation of Shock/Boundary Layer Interaction over Surface Roughness Using the High-Oder FR/CPR-LLAV Method 2016
- High-Order Numerical Simulation of Shock/Boundary Layer Interaction over Surface Roughness Using the FR/CPR-DG Method 2015
- Towards Efficient Simulation of Unsteady Incompressible Flows Using Dual-Time Stepping CPR-DG Methods on Unstructured Moving Grids, International Symposium of High-order Methods for Computational Fluid Dynamics 2015
- Homotopy Continuation for Correction Procedure via Reconstruction – Discontinuous Galerkin (CPR-DG) Methods 2015
- Comparative Study of Shock-Capturing Methods for High-Order CPR: MLP and Artificial Viscosity 2014
- Shock Capturing for the Correction Procedure via Reconstruction Method Using Artificial Viscosity and Diffusivity 2014
- Impact of Mean Flow Shear on the Wake Vortical Structure behind Oscillating Airfoils 2014
Grants and Contracts
- MRI: Acquisition of a High-Speed Digital Image Correlation System for Research and Education 2021
- CAREER: Revealing Transitional/Turbulent Flow Physics from Fish Locomotion in Unsteady Environments at Realistic Reynolds Numbers 2020
- Collaborative Research: Physics-driven stochastic modeling for tumor structure inversion from in vivo experimental data 2019
- CAREER: Revealing Transitional/Turbulent Flow Physics from Fish Locomotion in Unsteady Environments at Realistic Reynolds Numbers 2019
- HIGH-ORDER SPACE-TIME METHODS FOR FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION IN HIGH-SPEED TURBULENT FLOWS 2018
- ADAPTIVE STOCHASTIC SPACE-TIME NUMERICAL METHODS TOWARDS PREDICTIVE SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING 2018
- High-Order Space-Time Flux Reconstruction Methods on Unstructured Meshes for Time-Dependent Partial Differential Equations 2018
- ONR Summer Faculty Research Program 2018
- Adaptive Space-Time Stochastic Numerical Methods for Turbulent Thermal Fluids Simulation and Analysis 2017
- MRI: Acquisition of Cutting-Edge GPU and Phi Nodes for the Interdisciplinary UMBC High Performance Computing Facility 2017
- RTK-FisVis: Real-Time Interactive Fluid Simulation and Visualization Toolkit 2017
- CAREER: Understanding Turbulent Hydrodynamics in Efficient Fish Locomotion at Realistic Reynolds Numbers 2017
- Determination of heterogeneous transport properties of tumors using spectral uncertainty quantification methods 2017
- Dynamic stall analysis and control for flapping wings in shear flow 2016
- Fundamental study of innovative self-starting vertical axis wind turbines for improved energy density in modern wind farms 2016
- Understand multiphase hydrodynamics of slug flow with high-viscosity fluid in complex geometries 2016
- Understanding Mechanism of Drag Reduction in Efficient Fish Locomotion at Realistic Reynolds Numbers 2016
- High-Order Hybrid RANS-LES Methods for Turbulence Simulation in Efficient Fish Locomotion 2016
- High-Order Hybrid RANS-LES Methods for Turbulence Simulation in Efficient Fish Locomotion 2016
- Discontinuous High-Order Space-Time Methods for Moving Domain Simulation 2016
- Innovative self-starting vertical axis wind turbines for improved energy density in modern wind farms 2016
- CRII: ACI: Extreme-Scale Heterogeneous Computing Framework for Thermal Fluids Science 2016
- Understanding Mechanism of Drag Reduction in Efficient Fish Locomotion at Realistic Reynolds Numbers 2016
- Acquisition of MicroLabBox real-time data acquisition and control platform for research and education 2015
- Impact of Dynamic Distributed Surface Roughness on the Development of Hypersonic Turbulent Boundary Layers over Curved Walls 2015
- Turbulent Hydrodynamics of Fin-Body-Flow Interaction in Fish Locomotion at Intermediate and High Reynolds Numbers 2015
- Evolution of Dynamic Stall over Flapping Wings in Shear Flows: Towards Effective Leading Edge Vortex Control in Agile MAV Flight 2015
- High-Order Hybrid RANS-LES Methods for Unsteady Incompressible Flows towards Efficient Simulation of Fishlike Locomotion in Turbulent Flow Environment 2015
- Low Reynolds Number Aerodynamics and Mechanics of a Barn Swallow Bird 2015
- Offshore wind turbine foundation design and optimization towards cost-effective deployment of offshore wind turbines in Maryland 2014
- Offshore wind turbine foundation design and optimization towards cost-effective deployment of offshore wind turbines in Maryland 2014
- A Cyber-physical Floating Offshore Vertical-Axis Turbine System (CyberFOVATS) for Aquacultural Applications
- Cyber-physical Renewable Energy and Water Treatment System (CREWTS) towards Net-zero-CO2-emission Fertilizer Production & Application
- RAISE: CET: Offshore Wind Farm Energy Enhancement with Meteorological-characteristics informed Wind Energy Assessment and Bio-inspired Near-surface Energy Booster Design
Research in Progress
- Innovative self-starting vertical axis wind turbines for improved energy density in modern wind farms 2014
- Offshore Wind Turbine Foundation Design 2014
Patents and Intellectual Property
- Physics- incorporated turbine blade pitch control technology 2024
- Time-delay closed-loop control of an infinitely variable transmission system for tidal current energy converters 2023
- EnergyMaster - A Floating Hybrid Tidal/Wave/Wind Harvesting System 2022
- Hybrid Vertical Axis Turbine Apparatus 2020
- “Windmaster” – an Improved Vertical Axis Wind Turbine 2016