Projects

  • Modal Analysis of High-altitude Stratified Sheared Atmospheric Turbulence
    • Formulated a new temperature treatment that decomposes temperature fluctuation from the mean gradient.
    • Performed large LES simulations of stratified sheared troposphere turbulence at 6 km with Re= 1500
    • Developed and implemented a parallelized scalable DMD tool applicable to large atmosphere dataset.
    • Performed DMD modal analysis on high-altitude atmospheric turbulence and identified key coherent structures.
  • Electrohydrodynamic (EHD) Generation of Atmospheric Turbulence
    • Performed linear stability analysis of ionized troposphere turbulence in the presence of EHD force.
    • Performed DNS-DEM simulations of charged aerosols in shear flow under different weather conditions.
    • Identified a new feedback mechanism capable of generating atmospheric turbulence during thunderstorms.
  • Numerical Modeling of Turbulent Particle-laden Flows with Charged Particles
    • Performed a comprehensive comparison of algorithms for computing long-range electrostatic interactions.
    • Developed a CFD-DEM framework that couples Ewald-based method with particle tracking for the first time
    • Simulations of charged particles in HIT revealed that charge enhances particle agglomeration and clustering
  • High-Fidelity Modeling of Particulate Transport and Deposition in Extreme Environments