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2026
  • Prof. Yuan receives an AI Ready Spartans grant for the Spartan Agentic AI Studio
  • Tommy Erickson successfully defended his MS thesis
  • Senior capstone design team advised by Prof. Yuan wins the ME 481 Edison Award
  • New paper in Journal of Fluids and Structures on a constrained two-rigid-body swimming system Link
2025
  • Congratulations to Mace for successful MS thesis defense Link
  • "Near-wall characteristics of non-equilibrium turbulent boundary layers on rough walls" accepted by IJHFF (International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow). Link
2024
  • A generalized wall-pressure spectral model for non-equilibrium boundary layers Link
2023
  • 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. Link
2022
  • Congrats Dr. Pargal!
  • Supersonic turbulent flows over sinusoidal rough walls Link
  • Effects of form-induced velocity in rough-wall turbulent channel flows Link
  • Direct numerical simulations of hyporheic exchange induced by rough bedforms Video
  • Roughness modeling paper presented at 34th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics.
  • CC* Compute: The MSU Data Machine
  • 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). Link
  • Guangchen selected as ME nominee for 2021–22 Fitch H. Beach Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research.
  • paper on APG boundary layer Link
2021
  • Guangchen received Spring 2022 Richard H. Brown Endowed Fellowship
  • Saurabh awarded CFD Society of Canada Graduate Scholarship
  • Sai's first paper accepted by JOT (Journal of Turbulence)
  • Saurabh's first paper accepted by JoT
2020
  • Mostafa's JFM paper accepted
  • Brandon Phan presented summer undergraduate research at virtual MidSURE event. Video
  • J. Yuan is PI of an NSF grant on fluid-structure interaction in biomimetic undulatory swimming.
  • DNS of turbulence mixing across sediment-water interfaces Link
2019
  • Turbulent structure tensors on a wavy wall Link
  • Turbulent structure on rough surfaces Link