Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Gurley Lab
Led by Kurtis Gurley · Civil and Coastal Engineering
What we study
The lab studies how hurricanes damage homes by combining field surveys, lab tests, and wind tunnel experiments. They use math models to predict how strong winds affect buildings.
What working here is like
- Fieldwork
- Building & testing
- Computational
- Coding helps
- Papers
- 5
Recent papers, explained
- Experimental Investigation of Compact Debris Flight in Highly Turbulent Winds
2026 · Journal of Structural Engineering
Investigates how turbulent winds affect debris flight in large-scale experiments.
- Active machine learning to control second-order statistical characteristics of flow fields in boundary layer wind tunnel experiments
2026 · Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics
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- Advancements in the physical simulation of near-surface extreme wind phenomena using hybrid active-passive flow control in a large boundary layer wind tunnel
2025 · Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics
- Modulating higher-order statistics of turbulent boundary layer wind fields using randomized grid roughness
2025 · Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics
- A novel wind tunnel testing method for debris flight in turbulent winds
2025 · Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics
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