TSM Lab — News & Updates https://tsmlabmsu.com/ 2026-05-30T00:00:00.000Z CC-BY 4.0 Prof. Yuan receives an AI Ready Spartans grant for the Spartan Agentic AI Studio https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-spartan-agentic-ai-studio-grant 2026-05-30T00:00:00.000Z Prof. Yuan is PI of the Spartan Agentic AI Studio, funded by MSU's AI Ready Spartans: Education Innovation Grants Challenge (Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Innovation) — a non-credit studio teaching undergraduates from any major to design, direct, and verify autonomous AI agent teams. Tommy Erickson successfully defended his MS thesis https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-tommy-erickson-defends-ms-thesis 2026-05-05T00:00:00.000Z Tommy Erickson successfully defended his MS thesis on pore-scale simulation of reactive transport and biofilm growth in hyporheic sediments (co-advised with M. S. Phanikumar, CEE). Senior capstone design team advised by Prof. Yuan wins the ME 481 Edison Award https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-me481-capstone-team-edison-award 2026-04-27T00:00:00.000Z A senior capstone design team (ME 481) for which Prof. Yuan served as faculty advisor — the VA-15 Fuselage Redesign project, sponsored by Vertical Autonomy — received the Edison Award for Best Capstone Design Project. New paper in Journal of Fluids and Structures on a constrained two-rigid-body swimming system https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-swimming-system-cfd-validation-paper 2026-04-01T00:00:00.000Z Ardister, Geddes, Feeny & Yuan, "Modeling and computational fluid dynamics validation of a nonholonomically constrained two-rigid-body swimming system," Journal of Fluids and Structures 142:104510 (2026). Congratulations to Mace for successful MS thesis defense https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-congratulations-to-mace-for-successful-ms-thesis-defense 2025-06-10T00:00:00.000Z Congratulations to Mace for successful MS thesis defense. "Near-wall characteristics of non-equilibrium turbulent boundary layers on rough walls" accepted by IJHFF (International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow). https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-near-wall-characteristics-of-non-equilibrium-turbulent-boundary 2025-06-06T00:00:00.000Z "Near-wall characteristics of non-equilibrium turbulent boundary layers on rough walls" accepted by IJHFF (International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow). A generalized wall-pressure spectral model for non-equilibrium boundary layers https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-a-generalized-wall-pressure-spectral-model-for-non 2024-06-10T00:00:00.000Z "A generalized wall-pressure spectral model for non-equilibrium boundary layers" accepted by JFM (Journal of Fluid Mechanics). Wall pressure spectrum modeling paper presented at AIAA Aviation Forum https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-wall-pressure-spectrum-modeling-paper-presented-at-aiaa 2023-06-12T00:00:00.000Z Wall pressure spectrum modeling paper presented at AIAA Aviation Forum. "On the effect of adverse pressure gradients on wall-pressure statistics in a controlled-diffusion aerofoil turbulent boundary layer" accepted by JFM. https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-on-the-effect-of-adverse-pressure-gradients-on 2023-03-17T00:00:00.000Z "On the effect of adverse pressure gradients on wall-pressure statistics in a controlled-diffusion aerofoil turbulent boundary layer" accepted by JFM. Congrats Dr. Pargal! https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-congrats-dr-pargal 2022-12-14T00:00:00.000Z Saurabh successfully defended his thesis. "Congrats Dr. Pargal!" Supersonic turbulent flows over sinusoidal rough walls https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-supersonic-turbulent-flows-over-sinusoidal-rough-walls 2022-12-10T00:00:00.000Z "Supersonic turbulent flows over sinusoidal rough walls" accepted by JFM. Effects of form-induced velocity in rough-wall turbulent channel flows https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-effects-of-form-induced-velocity-in-rough-wall 2022-10-16T00:00:00.000Z "Effects of form-induced velocity in rough-wall turbulent channel flows" accepted by Journal of Turbulence. Direct numerical simulations of hyporheic exchange induced by rough bedforms https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-direct-numerical-simulations-of-hyporheic-exchange-induced-by 2022-07-22T00:00:00.000Z "Direct numerical simulations of hyporheic exchange induced by rough bedforms" presented at 12th International Symposium of Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP-12). Roughness modeling paper presented at 34th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics. https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-roughness-modeling-paper-presented-at-34th-symposium-on 2022-07-01T00:00:00.000Z Roughness modeling paper presented at 34th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics. CC* Compute: The MSU Data Machine https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-cc-compute-the-msu-data-machine 2022-04-06T00:00:00.000Z J. Yuan is co-PI of $400k NSF grant, "CC* Compute: The MSU Data Machine" — high-memory, GPU-enabled compute cluster for data-intensive and AI applications. Congrats Dr. Shen! https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-congrats-dr-shen 2022-03-17T00:00:00.000Z Guangchen successfully defended PhD thesis. "Congrats Dr. Shen!" "Quantifying the effects of bed roughness on transit time distributions via direct numerical simulations of turbulent hyporheic exchange" accepted by WRR (Water Resources Research). https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-quantifying-the-effects-of-bed-roughness-on-transit 2022-03-16T00:00:00.000Z "Quantifying the effects of bed roughness on transit time distributions via direct numerical simulations of turbulent hyporheic exchange" accepted by WRR (Water Resources Research). Guangchen selected as ME nominee for 2021–22 Fitch H. Beach Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research. https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-guangchen-selected-as-me-nominee-for-2021-22 2022-03-04T00:00:00.000Z Guangchen selected as ME nominee for 2021–22 Fitch H. Beach Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research. paper on APG boundary layer https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-paper-on-apg-boundary-layer 2022-03-02T00:00:00.000Z Saurabh's "paper on APG boundary layer" published in PoF (Physics of Fluids). Guangchen received Spring 2022 Richard H. Brown Endowed Fellowship https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-guangchen-received-spring-2022-richard-h-brown-endowed 2021-10-15T00:00:00.000Z Guangchen received Spring 2022 Richard H. Brown Endowed Fellowship. Saurabh awarded CFD Society of Canada Graduate Scholarship https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-saurabh-awarded-cfd-society-of-canada-graduate-scholarship 2021-07-29T00:00:00.000Z Saurabh awarded CFD Society of Canada Graduate Scholarship. Sai's first paper accepted by JOT (Journal of Turbulence) https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-sai-s-first-paper-accepted-by-jot-journal 2021-04-28T00:00:00.000Z Sai's first paper accepted by JOT (Journal of Turbulence). Saurabh's first paper accepted by JoT https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-saurabh-s-first-paper-accepted-by-jot 2021-01-27T00:00:00.000Z Saurabh's first paper accepted by JoT. Mostafa's JFM paper accepted https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-mostafa-s-jfm-paper-accepted 2020-11-13T00:00:00.000Z Mostafa's JFM paper accepted. Brandon Phan presented summer undergraduate research at virtual MidSURE event. https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-brandon-phan-presented-summer-undergraduate-research-at-virtual 2020-08-04T00:00:00.000Z Brandon Phan presented summer undergraduate research at virtual MidSURE event. J. Yuan is PI of an NSF grant on fluid-structure interaction in biomimetic undulatory swimming. https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-j-yuan-is-pi-of-490k-nsf-award 2020-05-04T00:00:00.000Z J. Yuan is PI of an NSF grant on fluid-structure interaction in biomimetic undulatory swimming. DNS of turbulence mixing across sediment-water interfaces https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-dns-of-turbulence-mixing-across-sediment-water-interfaces 2020-02-19T00:00:00.000Z "DNS of turbulence mixing across sediment-water interfaces" accepted by Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Turbulent structure tensors on a wavy wall https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-turbulent-structure-tensors-on-a-wavy-wall 2019-12-12T00:00:00.000Z "Turbulent structure tensors on a wavy wall" published in Physics of Fluids as Editor's-Choice paper. Turbulent structure on rough surfaces https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-turbulent-structure-on-rough-surfaces 2019-11-01T00:00:00.000Z "Turbulent structure on rough surfaces" accepted in Journal of Turbulence.