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Training in the Fluid Mechanics group provides students with an understanding of the fundamentals of fluid flow. The program prepares graduate students for careers in industry and academia.

At the graduate level, all students must complete a one-year course in fluid dynamics before specializing in particular areas. In addition, the group strives to provide graduates with a firm foundation in analytical, computational and experimental essentials of fluid dynamics.

Research activities span the Reynolds number range from creeping flows to planetary phenomena. Topics of current study include suspension mechanics, dynamics of phase changes (in engineering and in geophysical flows), earth mantle dynamics, interfacial phenomena, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, biofluid mechanics, vascular flows, chaotic mixing and transport of scalars, bubble dynamics, flow in curved pipes, environmental fluid dynamics, external aerodynamics, unsteady aerodynamics, bluff-body aerodynamics, vortex dynamics and breakdown, aircraft wake vortices, vortex merger, vortex instabilities, rotating flows, stability and transition, chaos, grid turbulence, shear turbulence, turbulence modeling, shock dynamics, sonoluminescence, sonochemistry, reacting flows, planetary atmospheres, ship waves, internal waves, and nonlinear wave-vorticity interaction.

Our experimental facilities are equipped with a low speed wind tunnel, a ship-model towing basin, a hydraulically driven wave tank, and apparatus for vascular flows, rotating flows, channel flows, jet flows, grid turbulence. The instrumentation includes numerous lasers for PIV, LDV and flow visualization, hot wire anemometers, pressure transducers, strain gauge balances, and various motion systems. All are equipped with data acquisition and processing systems.

The Major Field Advisors for each research area are listed here.

Core Faculty:
Alam

M. Reza Alam

Makiharju-Simo

Simo Mäkiharju

Philip Marcus

Philip S. Marcus

Omer Savas

Ömer Savaş

Faculty with research interests that relate to Fluids issues include Professors Mohammad R. K. Mofrad and Shawn Shadden.

 

Fluids Labs:
Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Our research group is focused on the fluid dynamics of vortices, waves, turbulence, and hydrodynamic stability. We use traditional analysis, ...
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FLOW Lab

FLOW Lab

Our research focuses on the advancement of the physical understanding of high-Reynolds number single- and multiphase flows. The present focus ...
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Fluid Mechanics Laboratory

Fluid Mechanics Laboratory

Research focus: Classical Fluid Mechanic; Aircraft Wake Vortices; Biofluid Mechanics; Vortex Dynamics; Rotating Flows; Experimental Techniques; Bluff Body Aerodynamics; Turbulent ...
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Theoretical & Applied Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Theoretical & Applied Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Research focus: Theoretical Fluid Dynamics; Nonlinear Wave Mechanics; Ocean and Coastal Waves Phenomena; Ocean Renewable Energy (Wave, Tide and Offshore ...
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Berkeley Fluids Research in the News:
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Making Waves: Turning Ocean Power Into Electricity

Making Waves: Turning Ocean Power Into Electricity

ME Professor Reza Alam's "Rolling Rings" Featured by the American Association for the Advancement of Science

ME Professor Reza Alam’s “Rolling Rings” Featured by the American Association for the Advancement of Science

ME Professor Reza Alam and Team Among Finalists for Odebrecht Award for Sustainable Development

ME Professor Reza Alam and Team Among Finalists for Odebrecht Award for Sustainable Development

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