Welcome to the Computational Fluid Dynamics Group

Our group focuses on developing computational methods for simulating fluid flow, heat and mass transport, and hydrodynamic instabilities that occur in porous media and advanced water treatment systems. We use both high-accuracy spectral methods and lower-order finite-volume methods. Our numerical work currently focuses on projection methods for efficiently simulating unsteady fluids flows, and immersed boundary methods for simulating flows with complicated geometries. Additional theoretical work in our group focuses on perturbation methods for understanding the evolution of flow instabilities, and the development of volume-averaged models for flow through porous media. We also perform experimental work in collaboration with Dr. Tzahi Cath in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.