Fluid-Structure Interactions Lab Mitul Luhar
Assistant Professor · AME · USC
(213) 740-7212 · luhar@usc.edu

Group members

Faculty
Dr. Mitul Luhar Dr. Mitul Luhar
Assistant Professor
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Office: OHE 400C
Phone: (213) 740-7212
Ph.D. Students
Andrew Chavarin Andrew Chavarin (achavari@usc.edu)

Flow over porous
Sounding like turbulent jazz
Oh, the chaotic rhythm
Christoph Efstathiou Christoph Efstathiou (efstathi@usc.edu)

A flat plate with holes
Laser tools the flow do show
Many days, nights, years
Mark Hermes Mark Hermes (markherm@usc.edu)

The electric star
plods its sucking feet upstream
in search of a home
Shilpa Vijay Shilpa Vijay (shilpavi@usc.edu)

A turbulent ride
Through hot foams the coolant slides
the temperature changes
M.S. Students
Chan-Ye Ohh Chan-Ye "Chris" Ohh (ohh@usc.edu)

Flapping up and down
With restoring force? Fluid
you keep me stable
Ziteng Wen Ziteng "Jack" Wen (zwen@usc.edu)

Oh lambda flyer
I oscillate you up down
are you flexible?
Will Rose Will Rose

Simple principles
simple conditions, but wait
compelling results
Undergraduates
Nina Singh Nina Singh

Model cilia
Left-right broken symmetry
In traveling waves
Albert Kong Albert Kong

Wiggle wiggle whoosh
Mechanical cilia
Will it shift axes?
Alon Tivon Alon Tivon

Just need a RasPi
A laser and some T-slots
P-I-V is born
Julia Wang Julia Wang

Lift, drag, and sea stars
How can we relate those things?
Let's ask the channel
Alumni
Shen Wang, M.S. 2017
Hyunggon Park, M.S. 2017
Changning Zhou, M.S. 2017
Anup Kanale, M.S. 2016 (currently a Ph.D. student in Prof. Eva Kanso's group at USC)
Han Tu, M.S. 2016 (currently a Ph.D. student in Prof. Melissa Green's group at Syracuse)
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Sifat Syed, B.S. 2017
Jane Hong, B.S. 2017
Dennis Tran, B.S. 2016
Brian Loh, Undergraduate
Allison Miranda, Undergraduate
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Mohit Kumar Tekriwal, Visting student, S.N. Bose Scholar
Akash Velu, High-school student, SHINE Program
Erik Szayna, High-school student, SHINE Program
Lalith Srivatsa, Visting student, Viterbi-India Program
Emeric Durozoy, Visting student, ParisTech (currently a Ph.D. student at CNRS, France)
Aishwarya Rath, Visting student, S.N. Bose Scholar