• Recent Research Highlights!

• Areas of Research Interest:

1). Fundamental studies on challenging thermal-fluids problems:

• Aircraft/aero-engine icing physics and innovative anti-/de-icing technology.

• Wind turbine icing and bio-inspired icephobic coatings for wind turbine icing mitigation

• Wind energy, wind turbine aeromechanics and wake interference.

• Bio-inspired flows, bio-inspired designs for micro-air-vehicle (MAV) applications.

• Low-speed aerodynamics, laminar boundary layer separation, transition and flow control.

• Vortex flow dynamics, wind tunnel testing and correction for vortex flows.

• Film cooling, electronic cooling and thermal management of gas turbine blades

• Microfluidics, micro-flows and micro-scale heat transfer.

• Tornados, storms and flow-structure interactions of built structures with strong winds.

2). Advanced flow diagnostics and instrumentations:

• Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and Stereoscopic PIV techniques.

• Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) and Laser Induced Phosphorescence (LIP).

• Pressure Sensitive Paint (PSP) and Temperature Sensitive Paint (TSP).

• Molecular Tagging Velocimetry (MTV) and Molecular Tagging Thermometry (MTT).

• Quantum Dot imaging and Molecule-based microscopic flow diagnostic techniques.

 

Funded Research Projects:

• Received over 60 research grants from federal agencies such as NSF, NASA, DoE, AFOSR, NAVY, USDA and NOAA, and industry sponsors such as GE, P&W, DuPont, General Atomics, and Collins Aerospace Systems with a total funding amount over $20M (Dr. Hu's personal share over $12M).

 

Our Research Sponsors:

National Science Foundation	National Aeronautics & Space Administration	National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
US Department of Energy (DoE)	US Department of Agriculture (USDA)	US NAVY
Army Research Office	US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOS	Iowa Space Grant Consortium