Members
Current and Past Members
The Flow and Turbulence Engineering Laboratory includes graduate students, undergraduate researchers, postdoctoral researchers, and collaborators working on experimental and computational fluid mechanics, turbulence, aerodynamics, particle transport, and flow control.
Principal Investigator
Prof. Ronald E. Hanson
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University. Principal Investigator of the Flow and Turbulence Engineering Laboratory.
Current Members
Amirhossein Hamidi
Researcher and former PhD student. His work focuses on the settling and transport of microfibres and complex-shaped particles in still and turbulent flows, with applications to atmospheric microplastic transport.
Hossein Khanjari
PhD student. His research focuses on active control of large-scale structures in turbulent boundary layers using synthetic jet actuators.
Costa Kandias
PhD student. His research focuses on unsteady vehicle aerodynamics in yawing flow and the generation of representative on-road aerodynamic conditions in wind tunnels.
Alec Sangster
PhD student. His research focuses on active turbulence generation and the effects of turbulence on fibre transport.
Yousseff Aboubakr
MASc student. He is leading novel work in active flow control.
Sebastian Bissainthe-Vandermeer
MASc student. His research is related to sustainable building envelopes and Trombe wall systems.
Stephanie Katopodis
Undergraduate researcher in Mechanical Engineering supported by an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award. Her work focuses on instrumenting a vehicle model for wind tunnel testing.
Yash Kerpla
Undergraduate researcher in Mechanical Engineering supported by a Lassonde Undergraduate Research Award. His work supports jet design for active turbulence generation and porous particle testing.
Kyle Rapinchuck
Undergraduate researcher in Mechanical Engineering supporting the design of wind tunnel upgrade systems.