News - 2020
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- Salvador Gomez presented a Caltech Science Journey, entitled “Fluid Dynamics: from Disturbances to Turbulence” . This program reaches an audience aimed at 8th grade and above. 11/20/20
- Prof. McKeon is the 2021-2023 Chair of the U.S. National Committee on Theoretical & Applied Mechanics (US/NCTAM). 11/1/20
- McKeon group members are participating in Caltech’s Future Ignited event , targeted to increase representation in STEM, on October 17, 2020. 10/07/20
- Sydney Richardson, who undertook a SURF in the McKeon group this summer was featured in the Caltech magazine . 8/24/20
- We wrapped up another summer AMP program ! 8/21/20
- Dory, Jacque and Miles participated in the STEAM Trio event for the Newark, NJ, school system. 8/15/20
- Dory Castillo, who is working on analysis of turbulent channel flow in the group this summer, was featured in the Rutgers University Newark News ! 7/28/20
- Our lab featured on the Veritasium channel in an item entitled Turbulent Flow is MORE Awesome Than Laminar Flow. We agree! 7/1/20
- Congratulations to Rahul Arun, a rising senior advised by Prof. McKeon and Prof. Ames who is performing research in the McKeon group, on winning Henry Ford II Scholar Award ! 5/28/20
- Congratulations, Dr. McMullen! Ryan successfully defended his thesis, entitled “Aspects of reduced-order modeling of turbulent channel flows: From linear mechanisms to data-driven approaches”. 5/15/20
- The group held “Coherent Day”, a virtual retreat, with a special guest appearance by Prof. Steve Brunton from the University of Washington! 5/1/20
- Professor McKeon was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) [AIAA press release] 2/3/20
- Check out the recent group outreach activities! 1/31/20
- Ryan McMullen was one of the recipients of the Shirley Thomas Academic Scholarship from the Aerospace Historical Society. Congratulations, Ryan! [Award Photo] 1/26/20
- Our paper on resolvent analysis for compressible turbulent boundary layers (Bae, Dawson & McKeon) made the cover of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Well done, Jane! 1/1/20
