August 1, 2018: Our study describing the modeling of transverse gusts has been published in the AIAA Journal.
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/1.J056961
July 22, 2018: Our conference on Bio-Propulsion of Adaptive Systems kicks off today at QUBS!
https://biopropulsion.ca/?page_id=54
July 20, 2018: Our research on the decay of turbulence in dense suspensions has now been published in Physics of Fluids.
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5031767
June 18, 2018: Dr. Serhiy Yarusevych, from the University of Waterloo, presents this Wednesday (June 20) at the Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series.
http://my.me.queensu.ca/News/2018/06/distinguished-speaker-series-Yarusevych.html
June 7, 2018: Our work uncovering the swimming behaviour of Anomalocaris 500MYA has been published in Integrative and Comparative Biology.
https://academic.oup.com/icb/advance-article/doi/10.1093/icb/icy014/4985728
April 11, 2018: Our research on bio-inspired, slotted delta wings has been published in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics.
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-3190/aaafbd
March 28, 2018: Learn more about the lab’s collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine, specifically cardiology and cardiac surgery.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/b5m7ruYfSBI?rel=
March 15, 2018: Our research on estimating fluid forces using Lagrangian data has been published in Experiments in Fluids.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00348-018-2515-2
January 10, 2018: Dr. Stephane Moreau, from the University of Sherbrooke, presents next Friday (January 19) at the Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series.
http://my.me.queensu.ca/News/2018/01/Stephane%20Moreau%20Seminar.pdf
January 5, 2018: Our latest insight into entrainment from a Lagrangian perspective has been published in Experiments in Fluids.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00348-017-2465-0
December 4, 2017: Our research on the turbulence decay of shear-thinning fluids has been published in Physics of Fluids.
http://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5012900
November 27, 2017: Dr. Sean Peterson, from the University of Waterloo, presents next Friday (December 8) at the Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series.
http://my.me.queensu.ca/News/Sean%20Peterson%20Seminar.pdf
September 18, 2017: Our work on the estimation of spatial gradients in unstructured Lagrangian data has been published in Experiments in Fluids.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00348-017-2427-6
September 6, 2017: Our research exploring spanwise flexibilty has been published in the Journal of Fluids and Structures.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2017.08.006
July 18, 2017: Our research exploring rapid area change for perching flight on three-dimensional planforms has been published in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics.
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-3190/aa6f47
July 3, 2017: Dr. Josephine Galipon, from Keio University, presents next Monday (July 10) at the Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series.
http://my.me.queensu.ca/News/2017/07/Seminar_Galipon_Distinguished%20Speaker%20Series%202017.pdf
April 3, 2017: Our Lagrangian pressure extraction technique has been tested against other approaches developed by our European colleagues, and has been published in Experiments of Fluids.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00348-017-2324-z
March 14, 2017: Our research exploring the vortex formation on accelerating spheres has been published in Physics of Fluids.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4977730
March 3, 2017: A review article on load estimations from velocity fields has been published in Experiments in Fluids.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00348-017-2304-3
February 15, 2017: Our lab is featured on the Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet show. Here is a clip from the show:
February 11, 2017: Our research comparing flapping flight to unsteady rotors has been published in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics.
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-3190/aa594b/pdf
January 12, 2017: Our research on entrainment in accelerating flows has been published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.
https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2016.716
December 16, 2016: Dr. Melissa Green, from Syracuse University, presents this Tuesday (December 20) at the Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series.
http://my.me.queensu.ca/Research/Distinguished_Speakers/files/Seminar_Melissa_Green_122016.pdf
November 15, 2016: Dr. Grant Ingram, from Durham University, presents this Friday (November 18) at the Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series.
http://my.me.queensu.ca/Research/Distinguished_Speakers/files/Seminar_Ingram_18112016.pdf
October 5, 2016: Dr. John Cater, from the University of Auckland, presents on October 21st at the Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series.
http://my.me.queensu.ca/Research/Distinguished_Speakers/files/Seminar_Cater_211016.pdf
July 15, 2016: Our research on the Reynolds-number scaling of vortex rings on circular plates has been published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2016.396
June 6, 2016: Our research on experimental pressure extraction using a Lagrangian framework has been published in Experiments in Fluids.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00348-016-2170-4
May 4, 2016: Dr. Aleksandar Jemcov, from the University of Notre Dame, presents on May 27th at the Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series.
http://me.queensu.ca/Research/Distinguished_Speakers/files/Jemcov%20seminar%20May27.pdf
March 6, 2016: Dr. Jean-Pierre Hickey, from the University of Waterloo, presents this Friday (March 11th) at the Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series.
http://me.queensu.ca/Research/Distinguished_Speakers/files/Seminar_Hickey_110316.pdf
February 9, 2016: Dr. Robert Martinuzzi, from the University of Calgary, presents at the Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series.
http://me.queensu.ca/Research/Distinguished_Speakers/files/DSS%20Martinuzzi%20Feb9.pdf
January 21, 2016: Our research on vortex evolution behind accelerating bodies has been published in Physics of Fluids.
http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/pof2/28/1/10.1063/1.4938744
December 4, 2015: Dr. Ken Visser, from Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY, presents this Friday (December 11th) at the Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series.
http://me.queensu.ca/Research/Distinguished_Speakers/files/seminar_Visser%2012-11-15.pdf
November 9, 2015: Dr. Nabiha Chaumeix, from CNRS-ICARE in Orleans, France, presents this Thursday (November 12th) at the Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series.
http://me.queensu.ca/Research/Distinguished_Speakers/files/seminar_Chaumeix%2011-12-15.pdf
October 26, 2015: Our research on the characterization of live, perching chickadees has been published in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics.
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-3190/10/6/066004/pdf
September 28, 2015: Dr. Jochen Kriegseis, from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, presents this Friday (October 2nd) at the Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series.
http://me.queensu.ca/files/Kriegseis%20seminar%2010-02-15.pdf
September 24, 2015: Our research on Lagrangian coherent structure identification using Voronoi tesselations has been published in Experiments in Fluids.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00348-015-2061-0
August 25, 2015: Professor James Wallace, from the University of Maryland (College Park), presents this Friday (28th) at the first Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series of the season.
http://me.queensu.ca/News/2015/Images/Wallace%20seminar%20August%2028th1.pdf
July 12, 2015: Our research on maple-seed aerodynamics has now been published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2015.279
May 12, 2015: Highlights of our work predicting wind ramps in complex terrain.
http://www.aip.org/publishing/journal-highlights/shifting-winds-early-warning-reduced-energy
May 8th, 2015: The new OTTER lab is unveiled to the public.
https://www.queensu.ca/gazette/mc_administrator/stories/reverse-engineering-nature
http://www.ckwstv.com/2015/05/08/queens-unveils-new-otter-lab/
http://www.station14.ca/video.html?id=2261
http://www.thewhig.com/2015/05/10/tool-will-help-research-take-flight