• Fluid Mechanics


• Marine and Aerial Robotics and Controls


• Applications

Fluid Mechanics

• Observability in classical field theory with specific application in: (arXiv:1010.2612 [2010]):

  • Shocks   ( 44th AIAA Aero. Sci. Meeting 2006-1516 [2006] )
  • Turbulence   ( Mulitscale Model. Simul. 7 4 [2009], Mulitscale Model. Simul. 8 4 [2010], J. Phys. A 41 344016 [2008] )
  • Two-phase   ( Int. Conf. Comp. Sci. [2017] )
  • Magnetohydrodynamics ( Future work )

• Kinematics and dynamics of an interface with irregularities

  • Generlaized conservation laws for interactions of interfacial irregularities   ( Submitted to J. Fluid Mech. 2017, 54th AIAA Aero. Sci. Meeting 2016-1078 [2016] )
  • Sources of vorticity and energy at interfacial irreularities   ( Phys Fluids 27(1) 012002 [2015], 31st ONR Symposium [2016] )
  • Unification of interfacial boundary codnitions   ( Phys Rev. E 94 023113 [2016], Phys Rev. E 87 033018 [2013] )

• Fluid dynamics of deformable bodies

  • J. Fluid. Mech. 769 337-368 [2015]
  • J. Fluid Mech. 719 488-526 [2013]

Marine and Aerial Robotics and Controls

• Bioinspired robotics

  • Lateral lines sensory systems   ( IEEE J. Oceanic Eng. [2016], Marine Technology Society Journal, 51(5) [2017] )
  • Squid actuators   ( Chapter 10 in Mohseni and Mittal, Synthetic Jets: Fundamentals and Applications, [2014], IEEE Trans. Robotics 26(3) [2010], IEEE J. Oceanic Eng. 33(2) [2008] )
  • Soft robotics   ( Bionispiration and Biomimetics 10 066001 [2015], Bionispiration and Biomimetics 10 065004 [2015], Composites Science and Technology, 1142 [2017], J. of Morphology 273(6) [2012] )
  • Flapping wing   ( Exp. Fluids 49 (3) [2010] )
  • Vision based robots   ( Future work )

• GNC

  • Flow-aided underwater localization   ( IEEE J. Ocean Eng. [2017] )
  • Fluid based cooperative control   ( Ocean Eng. 141 [2017] )
  • Control of bioinspired vehicles   ( Transactions on mechatronics 19 (4) [2014] )

• Low aspect ratio flyers

  • Roll stall   ( J. Aircraft 50(4) [2013], Adv. Robotics 27(9) [2013] )
  • Resonant mode   ( J. Aircraft 52 (1) [2015] )
  • Vehicle control ( 6 gram Autopilot, J. Aerosp. Inf. Syst. [2017], Mittakiri & Mohseni, IEEE RA-Letter [2017] )

• Model reduction

  • Geometric reduction   ( SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 38(1) [2016], SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 52\ (4) [2014] )