Our laboratory is interested in the problems of fluid-solid interactions, with complex boundary conditions, and geometries. Inspired by natural textured surfaces such as skin of fast swimming sharks, scales on butterfly skins, ridges on the moth of pitcher plants, we study the effect of two- and three-dimensional textures of various scales on the fluid flow and aim to provide design criteria for fabrication of energy efficient textured surfaces. 

Multi-light Sheet, Consecutive Overlapping Particle Image Velocimetry

Locally Tailored Textured Surfaces for Flow Control

Group Motion & Arrangements of Bodies