ICTAM 2024

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 Flow Above Ocean...

Welcome to FDT Lab

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 experimental...

STEM Bridge Program

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

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 integrate...

AI+Science at University of Chicago

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...