Porous Surfaces for Passive Flow Control
Engineered porous surface architectures for drag reduction and heat transfer enhancement.
Ph.D. thesis: leveraged turbulence at the interface of engineered porous surfaces for passive flow control, with applications to thermal transport and drag reduction.
Designed and built a custom partially-porous channel flow facility with thermal management, pressure taps, and PIV optical access; demonstrated 200–400% enhancement in convective heat transfer across 15+ porous substrate configurations.
Fabricated anisotropic porous lattice substrates via SLA 3D printing; first-of-its-kind experimental validation of resolvent-based porous surface designs.