Department of Mechanical Engineering
School of Engineering & Computer Sciences
Computational Thermo-Fluid Laboratory
NEWS
2021
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Our group participated the Sci'Em Science Day in the Mayborn Museum
10/23/2021
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It is an important aspect of our group's mission to integrate our state-of-the-art research into STEM outreach activities! We have participated the annual Sci'Em Science Day in the Mayborn Museum. We present the project "Supercomputer Modeling of Sprays: from a sneeze to jet engines!" to visitors of all ages, including both our simulation movies, animations, and hands-on activities to create nice paintings with food sprays!
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Congratulations to Dr. Delin (Dale) Jiang for his successful PhD defense
09/21/2021
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Congratulations to Dale! Best wishes to his new job in Exponent!
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New members joining the group
08/23/2021
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Welcome two new graduate students, Tanjina Azad and Ryan Day, who joined our group in Fall 2021!
Educational video for spray
05/15/2021
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Thanks to Alyssa Edwards, Videographer in Office of the Vice Provost for Research at Baylor, who has helped our group to make our first educational animated video! It is published on YouTube now! Engineering research is fun!
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Congratulations to Dr. Jordan Sakakeeny for his successful PhD defense
04/15/2021
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Congratulations to Jordan! Best wishes to your new job in NASA!
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Simulating Atomization on Frontera, 5th fastest supercomputer in the world
04/8/2021
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Our group has been awarded allocations on Frontera through the Pathways project to perform direct numerical simulation of atomization. Frontera, hosted by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) is the 5th fastest supercomputer in the world.
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2020
New paper published in Physical Review Fluids
12/01/2021
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Congratulations to Jordan for his paper entitled "Natural oscillations of a sessile drop on flat surfaces with mobile contact lines " published in PRFluids! Good job!
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Congratulations to Dr. Bo Zhang for his successful PhD defense
08/15/2020
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Congratulations to Bo! Upon graduation, Bo will start his postdoc position at Georgia Tech. Keep up the great efforts!
New paper published in International Journal of Multiphase Flow
04/01/2021
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Congratulations to Bo for his paper entitled "Modeling and detailed numerical simulation of the primary breakup of a gasoline surrogate jet under non-evaporative operating conditions" published in IJMF! Good job!
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Dr Ling received the NSF CAREER Award
03/05/2020
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Dr Ling received the CAREER Award from NSF, entitled "CAREER: Impact of Inlet Conditions on Interfacial Instability and Spray Formation: High-Fidelity Simulation, Characterization, and Sub-Grid Modeling", to support his research on spray formation modeling and simulation!
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New paper published in Physical Review Fluids
11/01/2019
Bo's paper entitled “Falling dynamics of a dripping drop: shape oscillation and transient flow development” has been published on Physical Review Fluids 4, 123604 (2020). The study is a collaboration with Prof. An-Bang Wang's group at National Taiwan University, who performed the experiments. Congratulations to the graduate students who have made a great effort on this paper!
Visualization Award at AIAA Aviation Forum
09/01/2019
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The visualization of airblast atomization simulations done by Dale Jiang in our group has received the "Most Quantitatively Descriptive Flow Visualization Award” in the 3rd Flow Visualization Showcase in AIAA Aviation Forum 2019, Dallas, Texas, USA, 2019. Congratulations to Dale!
NSF Award is received
01/01/2019
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Our group has received funding award (#1853193) from NSF. The project “EAGER: Establishment of a High-Fidelity Simulation Infrastructure for Fuel Injection and Combustion in Supersonic Flows” is for two years.
Students presented research at ICLASS 2018
07/22/2018
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Bo Zhang and Dale Jiang presented their research on "Effect of fuel viscosity on the atomization of diesel and biodiesel fuels from a single-hole pressure atomizer" and "Effect of inlet gas turbulence on air-blast atomization" at the 14th Triennial International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems (Chicago, IL).
Students presented research at AIAA Aviation Forum 2018
06/25/2018
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Jordan Sakakeeny presented his research on "Direct Numerical Simulation of a Thin Film Over a NACA 0012 Airfoil" at the AIAA Aviation Forum 2018 (Atlanta, GA).
New journal article accepted on Journal of Fluid Mechanics
06/01/2018
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Our group has a new journal paper, entitled "Asymptotic scaling laws and semi-similarity solutions for a finite-source spherical blast wave" by Y. Ling and S. Balachandar, accepted by Journal of Fluid Mechanics.
Students presented research at Bluebonnet Symposium 2018
04/30/2018
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Bo Zhang and Dale Jiang presented our research results at the Bluebonnet Symposium on Thermal-Fluid Sciences 2018. This year the symposium was hosted by UT Dallas.
New journal article accepted on Shock Waves
12/20/2017
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The group has a new journal paper, entitled "Simulation and scaling analysis of a spherical particle-laden blast wave" accepted by Shock Waves.
New computational nodes added on the Baylor HPC system
06/30/2017
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New computational nodes have been recently purchased by the CTF Lab and installed in the Baylor HPC machine, Kodiak. There are in total 16 new computer nodes, each of which consists of two Intel E5-2695v4 processors, 256GB RAM, 240GB SSD, and Intel Omni-Path 100Gb/s network interface. The CTF Lab will use these computational resources for large-scale simulations of liquid fuel atomization and double emulsion formation in microfluidic devices.
Conference paper accepted by ILASS-Europe 2017
06/05/2017
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Our paper entitled "Direct numerical simulation of an atomizing biodiesel jet: Impact of fuel properties on atomization characteristics" has been accepted by ILASS 2017 : 28th European Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems.
Graduate student positions Available
02/14/2017
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The Computational Thermo-Fluid Laboratory (CTF Lab) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Baylor University has multiple research assistant openings available immediately (also possible to start in Fall 2017). The research projects are mainly on conducting numerical simulations on multiphase flows in energy applications or environmental flows under the supervision of Dr. Ling. Interested applicants please contact Dr. Ling by email (stanley_ling@baylor.edu).