Center for Flow Physics and Control (CeFPaC)

Fotis Kopsaftopoulos

Assistant Professor
Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
intelligent structural systems
structural health monitoring diagnostics and prognostics
stochastic system identification and machine learning
fly-by-feel aerial vehicles
bio-inspired systems
smart materials and structures

Isom Herron

Professor
Mathematical Sciences
The theory of the stability of fluid flows.
Common applications are to phenomena in the atmosphere, the oceans, to problems of the motion of ships and aircraft and to internal machinery.
Modern approaches involve new techniques in operator theory, energy methods and dynamical systems.
Current research interests are in (i) stability of rotating magneto-hydrodynamic flows, (ii) more complicated geophysical flows such as groundwater, for which mathematical models are still being developed.

Michael Amitay

Professor and James L. Decker '45 Endowed Chair in Aerospace Engineering and Director, Center for Flow Physics and Control (CeFPaC).
Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
Experimental Aerodynamics
Experimental fluid mechanics
Active and passive Flow Control

Sandipan Mishra

Associate Professor
Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
Dynamic Systems and Control
Precision Mechatronics
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Advanced Manufacturing
Energy Efficient Buildings

Farhan Gandhi

Rosalind and John J. Redfern Jr Chair in Engineering
Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
Smart and Adaptive Structures for Rotocraft
Material Systems
Cellular Structures

Onkar Sahni

Associate Professor
Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
Fluid Mechanics
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Turbulence Simulations
Computational Mechanics
High-Performance and Parallel Computing