https://tsmlabmsu.com/ 2026-08-26T00:00:00.000Z Turbulence Simulation & Modeling Lab CC-BY 4.0 https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-nsf-stc-tempest-award 2026-08-26T00:00:00.000Z

TEMPEST (Transformative Explorations in Multi-Physics and Engineering of Scientific Turbulence) is led by Michigan State University and runs from September 2026 to August 2031 under NSF award 2535317. It brings together eight universities and three national laboratories to build predictive models of turbulence in multi-physics systems.

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.

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).

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.

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).

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.

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).

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).

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.

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.

https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-congrats-dr-pargal 2022-12-14T00:00:00.000Z

Saurabh successfully defended his thesis. "Congrats Dr. Pargal!"

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-congrats-dr-shen 2022-03-17T00:00:00.000Z

Guangchen successfully defended PhD thesis. "Congrats Dr. Shen!"

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).

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.

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).

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.

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.

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).

https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-saurabh-s-first-paper-accepted-by-jot 2021-01-27T00:00:00.000Z

Saurabh's first paper accepted by JoT.

https://tsmlabmsu.com/#news-mostafa-s-jfm-paper-accepted 2020-11-13T00:00:00.000Z

Mostafa's JFM paper accepted.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.