The Flow Simulation Research Group, which was started in 2006 by Dr. Haibo Dong, is of fundamental interests in understanding the physics of complex flows of flying and swimming in nature by combining high-speed photogrammetry techniques and state-of-the-art computational tools. Research is driven by the quests to answer questions both from fundamental fluid dynamics problems and from practical applications. Supported by NSF, AFOSR, AFRL, DoD DURIP, OSD SBIR, DAGSI, OAI seed grant and WSU research incentive program, our group is currently equipped with a world-class high-speed photogrammetry system consisting of three high-speed cameras (1 Mpix at 1000 fps) synchronized and calibrated in three-dimensions to enable sufficient and instantaneous data acquisition of insect flights; efficient and accurate surface reconstruction and auto-tracking technology; in-house immersed-boundary method based incompressible high-fidelity flow solver; and flow analysis tools particularly designed for studying bio-inspired flight.
Current research in our group is in biological fluid dynamics, insect flights, modeling and design of Micro Air Vehicle (MAV), fluid-structure interaction, reduce order modeling, direct injection in small engines, computational combustion, Cartesian grid methods, and high performance computing.
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