Jane Bae
California Institute of Technology, CA·Engineering·Early-career
Turbulent airflow and water flow near solid surfaces affect drag, efficiency, and stability in aircraft, cars, ships, and energy systems. When flow separates from a surface, it creates complex motions that current simulation tools struggle to predict.
- Fields
Engineering
- Topics
turbulence
large-eddy simulation
wall-modeled LES
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jan 2031
What they work on
- Analyze high-resolution flow data to determine how the directionality (anisotropy) of unresolved small-scale turbulent motion behaves in attached and separating flows near walls.
- Develop new near-wall models for wall-modeled large-eddy simulation that account for the subgrid-scale anisotropy features found to matter most.
- Evaluate the new models on challenging engineering flow configurations, comparing them with experimental measurements and high-fidelity reference data.
More about the research
This project aims to make turbulence models more reliable without making them too costly to run. It focuses on how small near-wall motions, which simulations do not resolve directly, influence the larger flow.
Why it matters
More reliable turbulence models for flows near surfaces, especially flows that separate, could improve design tools for aircraft, ships, cars, and energy systems. Better predictions of drag, efficiency, and stability, at manageable computing cost, could benefit the aerospace, automotive, and energy industries.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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Pennsylvania State University, PA·Engineering
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The school
California Institute of Technology: 18 labs on PI Pages, $445M a year on research, 200 research doctorates a year.
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