Past Seminar Series

  • Oct. 21, 2020 (Giovanni Iacobello) From flow systems to complex networks: a methodological overview
    Queen's University, Canada Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Oct. 28, 2020 (Benjamin Eric Jenett) Discrete Mechanical Metamaterials
    MIT, USA
  • Nov. 04, 2020 (Jiarui Gary Lei) Flow development and sediment deposition along artificial and real seagrass meadows
    MIT, USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Nov. 11, 2020 (Qiang Zhong) Two secrets of fish swimming
    University of Virginia, USA
  • Nov. 18, 2020 (Samuel Rudy) Data-driven methods for interpretable system identification and constructing hydrodynamic databases
    MIT, USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Dec. 09, 2020 (Daolin Ma) High-Resolution Tactile Sensing and Perception for Robotic Manipulation
    MIT, USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Dec. 16, 2020 (Sicheng He) Aerodynamic shape optimization with time-spectral flutter adjoint
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Jun. 02, 2021 (Muhammad Saif Ullah Khalid) Connecting Physiology and Kinematics of Natural Swimmers
    University Alberta, Canada Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • May. 26, 2021 (Ping He) A High-Fidelity Gradient-Based Optimization Framework for Multidisciplinary Engineering Design
    Iowa State University, USA
  • May. 19, 2021 (Jian-Xun Wang) Physics-Informed Discretization-Based Learning: a Unified Framework for Solving PDE-Constrained Forward and Inverse Problems
    University Notre Dame, USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • May. 12, 2021 (Frieder Kaiser) Flying in gusty environments II: Transitional network approaches and probabilistic load reconstruction
    Queen's University, Canada Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • May. 05, 2021 (Leah Mendelson) Biological and Bio-Inspired Propulsion for Water Exit
    Harvey Mudd College, USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Apr. 28, 2021 (Georgios Katsikis) Measuring the DNA cargo of viruses using nanofluidics
    MIT, USA
  • Apr. 21, 2021 (Wenchao Yang) Flying in gusty environments I: Aerodynamic load estimates with sparse pressure data
    Queen's University, Canada Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Apr. 14, 2021 (Chengyu Li) Wing-Induced Flow in Odor-Guided Flapping Flight
    Villanova University, USA
  • Apr. 07, 2021(Andres Goza) Driving physics of inverted flag flapping
    UIUC, USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Mar. 31, 2021 (Aditya Nair) Network-theoretic analysis and control of unsteady fluid flows
    University Nevada Reno, USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Mar. 24, 2021 (Kai Zhang) Experimental techniques on suspension measurements using index-matching hydrogel particles
    Queen's University, Canada Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Mar. 17, 2021 (Nan Gao) A calibration-free wall-shear-stress measurement technique using a dual-layer hot-film sensor
    Harbin Institute of Technology, China Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Mar. 10, 2021 (Shengze Cai) Data-driven and physics-informed deep learning in flow visualization technologies
    Brown University, USA
  • Mar. 03, 2021 (Maziar Raissi) Hidden Physics Models
    University of Colorado, Boulder, USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Feb. 24, 2021 (Siddhartha Verma) Collective Behaviour, Sensing, and locomotion Patterns of Fish
    Florida Atlantic University, USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Feb. 17, 2021 (Mohammad Farazmand) Extreme Events in Fluid Dynamics: Mechanisms, Prediction and Mitigation
    North Carolina State University, USA
  • Feb. 10, 2021 (Lu Lu) Integrating Machine Learning & Multiscale Modeling in Biomedicine
    MIT, USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Feb. 03, 2021 (David Murphy) Flapping flight in air and water: Bio-inspiration from tiny insects and sea butterflies
    University South Florida, USA
  • Aug, 31, 2021 (Daning Huang) Surrogate and Reduced-Order Modeling for Fluid-Thermal-Structural Interaction in High-Speed Flow
    Penn State Univ., USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Sep, 08, 2021 (Bo Cheng) Beyond Simply Flapping: From Agile Wings to Agile Flight
    Penn State Univ., USA
  • Sep, 15, 2021 (Jichao Li) Machine-learning-based Compact Geometric Design Space for Efficient Aerodynamic Shape Optimization
    NUS, Singapore Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Sep, 22, 2021 (Wim Van Rees) Effect of leading-edge curvature actuation on flapping fin performance
    MIT, USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Sep, 29, 2021 (Nicole Xu) Biohybrid robotic jellyfish: Using microelectronics to drive live jellyfish swimming
    U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Oct, 06, 2021 (Adrian Lozano-Duran) Machine-learning modeling of external aerodynamics
    MIT, USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Oct, 13, 2021 (Yayun Shi) Discrete Adjoint-based Optimization Methodology and Applied Research for Laminar Flow Wing
    Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Oct, 20, 2021 (Mona Kanso) Coronavirus rotational diffusivity and rheology
    Queen's Univ., Canada Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Oct, 27, 2021 (Keith Moored) Hydrodynamics of Fish Schooling: From Physics-Based to Deep Learning Models
    Lehigh Univ., USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Nov, 03, 2021 (Kevin Chen) Agile and Robust Micro-Aerial-Robots Powered by Soft Artificial Muscles
    MIT, USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Nov, 10, 2021 (Ajay Kottapalli) Cancel
    Univ. Groningen, Netherlands
  • Nov, 17, 2021 (Phanindra Tallapragada) Constraints, Passive Mechanics and Embodied Sensing in Fish-like Swimming
    Clemson Univ., USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Dec, 01, 2021 (Shaowu Pan) NIF: a spatio-temporal representation learning paradigm beyond POD and CNN
    Univ. of Washington, USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Dec, 08, 2021 (Margaret Byron) The fluid dynamics of swimming using flexible propulsors at intermediate scales
    Penn State Univ., USA
  • Dec, 15, 2021 (Tyler Van Buren) Fin morphology in bioinspired propulsion
    Univ. of Delaware, USA
  • Dec, 29, 2021 (Enrico Ser-Giacomi) Generalizing the concept of network connectivity and its application to ocean dynamics and marine biology
    MIT, USA
  • Feb, 16, 2022 (David Rival) Title: Energized Mass: Insights into fluid forces on accelerating bodies
    Personal Website: David Rival
    Queen's University, Canada Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Feb, 23, 2022 (Zhao Pan) Title: (Mild) Impact-induced Cavitation
    Personal Website: Zhao Pan
    University of Waterloo, Canada Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Mar, 2, 2022 (Rob Siddall) Title: “Arboreal Acrobatics: Understanding Gliding Animals with Robots
    Personal Website: Rob Siddall
    University of Surrey, UK Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Mar, 9, 2022 (Jorn Cheney) Title: Wing morphing in bats and gliding birds. (CANCEL)
    Personal Website: Jorn Cheney
    Royal Veterinary College, UK
  • Mar, 16, 2022 (Daniel Floryan) Title: Charting dynamics from data
    Personal Website: Daniel Floryan
    University of Huston, USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Mar, 23, 2022 (Gabriel D Weymouth) Title: Accelerating biological and engineering flow simulations: Are convolutional encoder-decoders all you need?
    Personal Website: Gabriel D Weymouth
    University of Southampton, UK Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Mar, 30, 2022 (Romit Maulik) Title: Reduced-order modeling of high-dimensional dynamical systems using scientific machine learning.
    Personal Website: Romit Maulik
    Argonne National Laboratory, USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Apr, 6, 2022 (Pascal Gehlert) Title: Unsteady Aerodynamics and what we can Learn from Vorticity
    Personal Website: Pascal Gehlert
    Cambridge University, UK Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Apr, 13, 2022 (Rajeev Jaiman) Title: Computational Mechanics of Bat Flying.
    Personal Website: Rajeev Jaiman
    University of British Columbia, Canada
  • Apr, 20, 2022 (Paris Perdikaris) Title: Learning Operators with Coupled Attention.
    Personal Website: Paris Perdikaris
    University of Penn, USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Apr, 27, 2022 (Heng Xiao) Title: Data-Driven Closure Modeling Using Derivative-free Kalman Methods
    Personal Website: Dr. Jinlong Wu
    Caltech, USA
  • May, 4, 2022 (Themistoklis Sapsis) Title: Likelihood-weighted active learning with application to Bayesian optimization, uncertainty quantification, and decision making in high dimensions.
    Personal Website: Themistoklis Sapsis
    MIT, USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • May, 11, 2022 (Guy Y. Cornejo Maceda) Title: Stabilization of the fluidic pinball and the open cavity experiment with gradient-enriched machine learning control.
    Personal Website: Guy Y. Cornejo Maceda
    HIT (Shenzhen), China Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • May, 18, 2022 (Hang Li) Title: Some Developments on Time Domain Reduced-Order Methods for Aeroelasticity and Non-linear Vibrations
    Personal Website: Hang Li
    Ohio State University, USA
  • May, 25, 2022 (Oscar Curet) Title: Fluid Dynamics of Mangrove-Inspired Structures and its Implication to Erosion and Coastal
    Personal Website: Oscar Curet
    Florida Atlantic University, USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Jun, 1, 2022 (Bernd R. NOACK) Title: Drag reduction with multiple actuators, multiple sensors and machine learning control
    Personal Website: Bernd R. NOACK
    HIT (Shenzhen), China
  • Jun, 8, 2022 (Liang Li) Title: Schooling fish: from biology to robotics and back
    Personal Website: Liang Li
    Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
  • Jun, 15, 2022 (Zhaoguang Wang) Title: Droplet Breakup Features in Gas Atomization for Metal Powder Production.
    Personal Website: Zhaoguang Wang
    Shanghai JiaoTong University, China
  • Jun, 22, 2022 (Cheng Huang) Title: Progress in Projection-based Reduced-Order Modeling of Combustion Dynamics in Propulsion Systems
    Personal Website: Cheng Huang
    University of Kansas, USA Record: Bilibili
  • Jun, 29, 2022 (Sheng Mao) Title: Designing the Morphology of Separated Phases in Multicomponent Liquid Mixtures
    Personal Website: Sheng Mao
    Peking University, China Record: Bilibili
  • Jul, 13, 2022 (Kiran Ramesh) Title: Physics-based low-order modelling of unsteady external flows
    Personal Website: Kiran Ramesh
    University of Glasgow, UK Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Jul, 20, 2022 (Han Tu) Title: Experimental investigation of zebrafish swimming using PIV.
    Zhejiang University, China
  • Jul, 27, 2022 (Jaime Wong) Title: Aerial swimming and underwater flight
    Personal Website: Jaime Wong
    Univ Alberta, Canada Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Sep, 6, 2022 (Luoqin Liu) Vertical structure of conventionally neutral atmospheric boundary layers
    USTC, China Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Sep, 13, 2022 (Justin Jaworski) Aeroacoustics and aerodynamics of quiet owl flight
    Lehigh, USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Sep, 20, 2022 (Yadong Zeng) Numerical Simulations of the Two-phase flow and Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems with Adaptive Mesh Refinement
    Univ. of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Sep, 27, 2022 (Ricardo Vinuesa) Modeling and controlling turbulent flows through deep learning
    KTH, Sweden Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Oct, 4, 2022 (Denis-Gabriel Caprace) Flow sensing for improved wake harvesting in formation flight
    UCLouvain, Belgium Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Oct, 11, 2022 (Jorn Cheney) Wing morphing in bats and birds
    Univ. Southampton, UK Record: YouTube
  • Oct, 18, 2022 (Linkai Li) Experimental investigations on ice accretion process and anti-/de-icing technology for aero-engine icing mitigation
    NUAA, China Record: YouTube
  • Oct, 25, 2022 (Melissa Green) Untangling flow structure and forces in unsteady aerodynamic applications
    Univ. of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA
  • Nov, 1, 2022 (Gustavo Halila) Efficient Aerodynamic Design Through Transition to Turbulence Modeling and Optimization
    Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
  • Nov, 8, 2022 (Li Wen) Aerial-aquatic robots capable of crossing the air-water boundary and hitchhiking on surfaces
    Li Wen, China Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Nov, 15, 2022 (Xuhui Meng) Deep Learning for solving forward and inverse PDE problems: Algorithms and Applications
    Brown Univ., USA Record: YouTube
  • Nov, 22, 2022 (Graham Taylor) Visually guided morphing-wing flight in birds
    Oxford, UK Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Nov, 29, 2022 (Sunghwan(sunny) Jung) Drinking and Diving
    Cornell, USA
  • Dec, 6, 2022 (Jane Bae) Wall-models for large-eddy simulations of turbulent flows via scientific multi-agent reinforcement learning
    Caltech, USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Dec, 13, 2022 (Daniele Certini) Investigating the glide of Alsomitra macrocarpa with depth cameras
    Queen's Univ., Canada
  • Dec, 20, 2022 (Yang Liu) Exploring the Multi-Scale Physics in Complex Multiphase Thermal-Flow Phenomena
    New York City Univ., USA
  • Jan, 10, 2022 (Bing Deng) CANCEL
    CSUST, China
  • Dec, 20, 2022 (Yang Liu) Exploring the Multi-Scale Physics in Complex Multiphase Thermal-Flow Phenomena
    New York City Univ., USA
  • Jan, 10, 2023 (Bing Deng) CANCEL
    CSUST, China
  • Jan, 17, 2023 (Devina Sanjaya) Global Mesh Optimization for Computational Fluid Dynamics
    Univ. of Tennessee, USA
  • Jan, 19, 2023 (Hao Liu) Biomechanics and Biomimetics in Bio-inspired Flight Systems
    Chiba Univ., Japan
  • Jan, 24, 2023 (Justin King) Experimental Investigations into the Propulsive Performance and Wakes of Bio-Inspired Pitching Panels
    Univ. of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Feb 14, 2023 (Petr Denissenko) Albatrosses of rivers: Inertial mechanism behind dynamic station holding in fish
    University of Warwick, UK Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Feb, 21, 2023 (Liu Hao) Computational Biomechanics of Insect-inspired Flapping Flights
    Chiba University, Japan
  • Feb, 28, 2023 (Amirreza Rouhi) High Reynolds number turbulent drag reduction by spanwise wall forcing
    Nottingham Trent Univ., UK Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Mar, 7, 2023 (Jun Zhang) Toy-Model Experiments Inspired by Geophysical Phenomena
    New York University, USA
  • Mar, 14, 2023 (James Herbert-Read) Perception, motion and coordination in animal groups
    University of Cambridge, UK Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Mar, 28, 2023 (Chandan Bose) Dynamical Perspectives of Nonlinear Aeroelastic Systems
    University of Edinburgh, UK
  • April, 11, 2023 (Heng Xiao) Learning Turbulence Models from Data — A Unified Perspective of Data Assimilation and Machine Learning
    University of Stuttgart, Germany Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • April, 18, 2023 (Ignazio Maria Viola) How plant seeds scavenge energy from the wind to remain airborne
    University of Edinburgh, UK Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • April, 25, 2023 (Jean Rabault) Deep Reinforcement Learning for Active Flow Control: state of the art and perspectives
    Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Norway
  • May, 9, 2023 (Karen Mulleners) All you need is time ... to predict and control unsteady vortex-dominated flows
    EPFL, Switzerland
  • May, 16, 2023 (Stefano Discetti) Data-driven techniques to boost the spatial and temporal resolution of PIV
    Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
  • May, 23, 2023 (Yan Zhang) Multiscale Studies of Physiologically Pulsatile Flow and Cardiovascular Hemodynamics
    North Dakota State University, USA Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • May, 30, 2023 (Ankang Gao) Galilean invariance in aerodynamic/hydrodynamic force decomposition
    Imperial College London, UK Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • Jun, 6, 2023 (Arthur Brown) Towards Practical Fixed-Wing Aircraft with Electroaerodynamic Propulsion
    MIT, USA
  • Jun, 13, 2023 (Christina Harvey) Avian morphology and behaviour advances novel UAV design
    University of California, Davis, USA
  • Jun, 20, 2023 (Jiaqing Kou) Machine Learning Methods for Modeling Unsteady Aerodynamics and Aeroelasticity
    RWTH Aachen University, Germany
  • Jun, 27, 2023 (Yuanhang Zhu) Flow-induced oscillations of pitching wings: Stability boundary, vortex dynamics and force partitioning
    University of Virginia, USA
  • July, 4, 2023 (Songqi Li) Turbulence control experiment using distributed actuators, distributed sensors, and machine learning
    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China Record: YouTube Record: Bilibili
  • July, 11, 2023 (Wen Wu) Roughness Effects in Non-Equilibrium Turbulent Flows
    The University of Mississippi, USA
  • July, 18, 2023 (Sophie Armanini) Unconventional bioinspired aerial robots: learning from nature to tackle new challenges
    Technical University of Munich, Germany