Owen and Juanita have had a busy season attending AIAA AVIATION and the BARC showcase to highlight recent work developing the CRM-HLS test geometry (to be used by the AIAA High-lift workshops) and preparing the Kirsten Wind Tunnel at UWAL for testing of this geometry.

O. Williams et al. “Definition of a Simplified, Low-Cost, Constant Cross-Section High-Lift Wing Configuration Based on the Common Research Model (CRM-HLS)“ AIAA AVIATION.

J. Osorio Tovar, et al “Side-wall splitter plate design and validation for the Kirsten Wind Tunnel” AIAA AVIATION.

Please refer to our papers for more information on exciting upcoming plans for the study of high lift configuration separation and multiple solutions.

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Big congratulations to Dr. Ari Athair on the completion of his PhD! Excited for your next steps!

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Huge congratulations to the graduates from the lab this spring!

Vannessa Franco Lopez, BSc

Cade Homfeldt, BSc

Jack Ninos, MSAA

Paul Medina, MSAA

Juanita Osorio Tovar, MSAA

Cannot wait to hear all the great things you will do next.

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Upcoming Annual Reviews article focussed on unintentionally asymmetric flows is highlighted on the AA website.

Full article here.

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Congratulations to Abigale Snortland on her successful dissertation defense and graduation from UW. You will be sorely missed. But we are so excited to hear more about her upcoming work at PNNL. So we will still see her around Seattle, which is wonderful!

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Congratulations to Marvin Bok (UG ‘24) and Paul Medina (Masters) for their awards at the recent AA end of year showcases. Marvin took home first prize and the people’s choice award for his work designing a hypersonic Ludweig tube. Paul was awarded second place in the graduate competition for his work developing the FLDI diagnostic for upcoming hypersonic testing. Congratulations to you both!

AA Graduate showcase highlights.

AA Undergraduate showcase highlights.

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It has been an exiting and busy year. Congratulations to all four of the recent Masters Graduates from our lab. Looking forward to hearing more about your next steps future successes.

Michael Chi

Binyu ‘Jonathan’ Wong

Sumukh Peddada

Ganesh Kumar Reddy Bommavaram

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A&A Ph.D. student Kevin Manohar earned the prestigious Herbold Fellowship from the College of Engineering. This fellowship is designed to bolster the endeavors of masters and early-career doctoral students within the College researching within the fields of data science and computation.

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We have just started commissioning our new three component Laser Dopper Velocimetry (LDV) system from Dantec. Providing all three velocity components at a single point in the flow, we will be using this system to explore in-rotor turbine hydrodynamics and the influences of incoming turbulence on performance.

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