Research Collaboration
As part of a collaboration between the FDT Lab and Gassensmith Lab, we are working on an innovative project titled "Flow Dynamics of Biolistic Drug-Delivery and Therapeutic Microparticles", exploring a novel skin-based drug delivery...
ICTAM 2024
Wonderful international science and discussions at the centennial ICTAM (International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics) in beautiful Daegu, Korea. Kianoosh presented a talk titled "Surface Wind Stress Model for Turbulent...
Welcome to FDT Lab
Excited to welcome our newest team members, Ahmed Hamada, Rituja Kulkarni, Moaz Bilto, and Aritra Rayhan, who joined the FDT lab in the Fall of 2024. They are all PhD students in the Mechanical Engineering program, bringing expertise in...
STEM Bridge Program
This summer, we had an amazing experience with our high school student team—Justin Chen, Kevin Cui, Brice Jiang, Arohi Joshi-Gadre, and Jacob Liu—working on the "design and application of a piston-type wavemaker" project as part of the...
NSF Grant for ML Modeling
We are thrilled to announce that FDT lab has received an NSF grant from the NSF Engineering Division to develop sea-state-dependent drag parameterizations through experiments and data-driven modeling. This collaborative project will...
AI+Science at University of Chicago
Ali Bizhan Pour has been accepted to the 2024 AI + Science Summer School at the University of Chicago Data Science Institute. The workshop will be held from July 15 – 19, jointly hosted by the Data Science Institute (DSI), Institute for...
Invited Talk at UMass Dartmouth
Excited to share that Dr. Yousefi was invited to speak at the Mechanical Engineering Seminar Series (https://lnkd.in/gnq9dTz9) at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth last week, presenting on "Turbulent flow structure over ocean...
Publication: ML Modeling of Drag
Excited to share that our latest paper on developing a supervised machine-learning model to reconstruct skin-friction drag over surface wind waves has been published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics! Check out the full paper at...
DOE Grant for FDT Lab Expansions
As part of a DOE grant to the UTD Wind Energy Center (UTD Wind), we are happy to announce that FDT Lab has received partial support for laboratory space renovations that house a state-of-the-art wind-wave tunnel facility designed...
NSF Grant to Study Wind Stress
Exciting News! The FDT Lab has received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study air-sea interactions (NSF Award # OCE-2319535-6). In collaboration with Dr. Christopher Zappa and Dr. Marco Giometto at...
Welcome to FDT Lab
Excited to welcome our new team members, Ali Bizhanpour, Ching-Wen Tseng, Vinhson Ho, and Carlos Barrera, who joined the FDT lab in the Fall of 2023. Ali is a PhD student in the Mechanical Engineering (ME) program, bringing expertise in...
Sustainability SPIRe Award
We have received the Sustainability SPIRe award, a new grant from the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) to study the impact of harvesting energy from the ocean on the upper ocean circulation and ecosystem structures. The...