Education

Below you can find some teaching resources, publicly available numerical models, and information regarding outreach activities. Please feel free to contact Dr. Luhar if you have any questions or would like to request further resources (e.g., lecture notes).

Teaching

Courses taught and basic information

• AME 530a Dynamics of Incompressible Fluids: Syllabus | Schedule | Gallery of Fluid Motion*
• AME 530b Dynamics of Incompressible Fluids: Syllabus | Schedule

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Codes and Tutorials

Please see the following GitHub repositories for public-available MATLAB codes on:

• Resolvent Analysis: Developed together with Dr. Beverley McKeon at Caltech and Dr. Ati Sharma at University of Southampton. This particular code is in primitive variables and for pipe flow. In addition to the standard no-slip boundary condition, it can also handle simplified conditions corresponding to active and passive control (e.g., opposition control and compliant walls). Dr. Luhar also provided a tutorial on resolvent analysis at the AIAA Aviation meeting in 2016, as part of an invited sessino on modal analysis methods.
• Dynamic Blade: Developed as part of my Ph.D. working with Dr. Heidi Nepf. This is a simple finite difference code to simulate the dynamics of inextensible, elastic blades (or beams) under oscillatory flow.

Outreach

Dr. Luhar has been lucky enough to partner with the STEM Academy of Hollywood for the past couple of years, a truly wonderful public school in the Los Angeles Unified School District that features a rigorous interdisciplinary and project-based curriculum and provides multiple student internships and community based learning opportunities.

In addition to serving on the STEM Academy Board of Advisors and helping out with student competitions and professional development activities, Dr. Luhar has also hosted lab visits where the students get to pursue hands-on flow visualization and drag measurement experiments with model cars. The introductory lecture can be found here. Further documentation regarding the activity and assessment available upon request.