Research

Research in our lab is on Fluid-Structure Interactions, Flow-Induced Vibrations, Dynamics, Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos, Random Vibrations, Off-Shore Wind Turbines, Stability of Wind Turbine Blades, Propulsion.

Here are some of our ongoing projects:

Fast-Starting Mechanical Fish - UMass Pike

 

An earlier version of this fish (built at MIT) was featured in the New Scientist.

 

Vortex-Induced Vibrations of Inclined Rigid Cylinders in Flow

 

Instability of Wind Turbine Blades

 

Fast Striking Mechanical Shrimp

(In collaboration with Sheila Patek, Biology Department, UMass Amherst)

 

Instability of Axial Fluid-Structure Inetraction Systems with Base Excitation

 

Tree Dynamics

(In collaboration with Brian Kane, Department of Environmental Conservation, UMass Amherst)

 

Prediction of Vortex-Induced Vibrations