Recent advancements in numerical algorithms coupled with the proliferation of powerful and affordable supercomputers have provided scientists and engineers with unprecedented opportunities to tackle a broad range of multi-faceted, multi-scale fluid flow problems that reside at the fringes among disciplines in engineering, applied mathematics, bioengineering, and biology. Our group engages in cutting-edge research aimed at developing new computational fluid dynamics techniques that allow us to model, simulate, and elucidate the rich physics of such cross-disciplinary problems. Our ongoing work focuses on a broad range of problems in environmental hydraulics, stream restoration, geophysical fluid mechanics, cardiovascular hemodynamics, the fluid mechanics of swimming and flying across scales (from fish to plankton and birds to insects), and the study of fluid transport and mixing via chaotic advection.
We emphasize simulation-driven experimentation and physics-driven computational modeling. For that reason, we are interested in developing novel experimental techniques and we collaborate closely with other research groups at SAFL and elsewhere whose work emphasizes laboratory experimentation.We welcome you to our web site and invite you to browse through our pages. If you require further information on any of the topics you will find in here or you are interested in joining our group, either as a graduate student or a postdoctoral researcher, please contact Professor Fotis Sotiropoulos.