Turbulence is still considered an open issue due to its complexity and lack of a generic theory; however, it is a very common phenomenon and plays a key role in many industrial and engineering applications. One of the most critical problems in turbulent flows is its higher drag compared to a laminar flow.
Burak Aksak and Luciano Castillo US Patent App. 14/774,767
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Luciano Castillo, PhD
Prior to joining Texas Tech University in 2011 as the inaugural Center Director of the National Wind Resource Center and Don-Kay-Clay Cash Distinguished Engineering Chair in Wind Energy, he was Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the Mechanical & Aerospace Department. His areas of research interest include: turbulence, renewable energy and bioengineering. He is the founder of Med-Vi, LLC a startup focus on predictive and preventive medicine. He has published over 100 publications, edited several books on renewable energy and co-authored several patents (e.g., energy, health care, etc.). Some of his awards include: Fellow ASME, the NASA Faculty Fellowship, the Martin Luther King Faculty Award, the Robert T. Knapp Award on complex flows from the ASME, the Best Paper Award from the Journal of Renewable Energy, the Best Paper Award from IEEE for his innovative approaches on engineering education (by bringing active learning, design and innovation in the classroom), and the Rensselaer Faculty Award (twice). He gave several keynotes lectures, plenary lecture, and distinguished lectures on wind energy. Currently, he serves as Associate Editor of Wind Engineering & Science, and serves in various scientific committees on renewable energy in Europe. He is passionate about inclusiveness and mentoring students and young faculty, and founded and organized two summer research institutes on renewable energy & medicine, which included students, faculty and K-12 teachers. A key accomplishment that he feels very proud of is that 10 of his graduate advisees are now in academic positions in the USA. For his contributions and impacts on inclusiveness he received in 2016 the McDonald Mentoring Award from ASME, and was nominated for a Presidential Award given by the President of the USA. A dedicated athlete, he loves to compete on triathlon events, including 70.3 Ironman events. Humberto Bocanegra, PhD
Humberto received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics (2013) from the Eindhoven University of Technology, a top technical university in The Netherlands. There he worked in the development of a novel optical, non-intrusive diagnostic for turbulent particle-laden flows. He received the Young Scientist Award at the 14th European Turbulence Conference in Lyon, France, for his presentation of said diagnostic tool. He has almost ten years of experience in optical sensors and laser-based diagnostics, particularly applied to flow measurements, and high-speed imaging, as well as image and data analysis. Humberto brings unique expertise in measurement innovation, experimentation and complex flows to our team. |
Burak Aksak, PhD
Burak received his Ph.D. in 2008 from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA in Mechanical Engineering. Prior to joining Texas Tech University in Lubbock as Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering, he was Lead Research Engineer/Co-founder of NanoGriptech LLC, Pittsburg, PA. Distinguished Awards include: Faculty Teaching Faculty Award from TTU 2013, Pi Tau Sigma Best Professor Award TTU 2013, and Best Teaching Assistant Award-Feedback Control Systems from Carnegie Mellon 2004. 
Leonardo P. Chamorro, PhD
Dr. Chamorro is assistant professor in the department of Mechanical Science and Engineering in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is affiliated in the departments of Aerospace Engineering, and Civil and Environmental Engineering. He received a PhD from the University of Minnesota. Professor Chamorro has published over thirty peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including Nature Comm, J Fluid Mech, Phys Fluids, and J Turbul. He is serving as Associate Editor of the Journal of Energy Engineering, and as Academic Editor and member of the Editorial Board of the journal Energies. He leads the Renewable Energy and Turbulent Environment group, and has developed a comprehensive, versatile and robust experimental approach that combines a set of state-of-the-art experimental techniques, including planar and 3D particle image velocimetry, computer vision, and 3D particle tracking velocimetry. This experimental framework allows him to study fluid dynamics-related problems from Eulerian and Lagrangian frames of reference. Support Staff:
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