Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Unsteady Fluid Dynamics Group
Led by Lawrence S. Ukeiley · Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
What we study
This group studies turbulent and unsteady flows, such as the physics behind drag, noise and shaking forces, so engineers can change them. It runs experiments in an anechoic (echo-free) wind tunnel.
What working here is like
- Building & testing
- Computational
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 3
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Cavity Flows
Studies cavity flows, identifying the sources of pressure fluctuations in open cavities and testing open-loop and closed-loop control to reduce them.
Fluid Structure Interactions with Meta-Materials
Studies how shock waves interacting with a boundary layer affect, and are affected by, vibrating meta-materials, including a physical reservoir computing approach.
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Flow Generated Noise
Identifies the sources of turbulent noise in transonic and supersonic jets and studies noise from rotors for urban air vehicles, aiming to control it.
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Recent papers, explained
- Phase-based analysis and control of a supersonic turbulent cavity flow
2026 · Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Uses phase-based analysis to reduce pressure fluctuations in supersonic cavity flows.
- A mutual information measure for predicting the performance of physical reservoir computers
2026 · Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures
Uses mutual information to measure how well physical systems process signals.
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- Modified spectral analysis modal method in supersonic flow over an open cavity
2026 · Experiments in Fluids
- Induced flow measurements and analytical tonal noise predictions for a sub-scale eVTOL rotor
2025 · International Journal of Aeroacoustics
Measures rotor inflow to predict tonal noise in edgewise flight.
- Acoustics and Forces from a Subscale Electric Vertical-Takeoff-and-Landing Rotor in Edgewise Flight
2024 · AIAA Journal
Measures noise and forces from a rotor in hover and edgewise flight.
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