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

Journal articles

  1. Huang Y, L Reistroph, M Luhar, and E Kanso (2018) Bistability in the rotational motion of rigid and flexible flyers, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, in revision
  2. Efstathiou C and M Luhar (2018) Mean turbulence statistics in boundary layers over high-porosity foams, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, to appear
  3. Luhar M (2018) Peace in the pipeline, Nature Physics, invited News and Views piece.
  4. Luhar M (2017) Soft Physics: A remedy for thinning hair, Nature Physics, 13(10): 927, invited News and Views piece.
  5. Nakashima S, K Fukagata and M Luhar (2017) Assessment of suboptimal control for turbulent skin friction reduction via resolvent analysis, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 828: 496-526
  6. Luhar M, E Infantes and H Nepf (2017) Seagrass blade motion under waves and its impact on wave decay Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 122, 2017JC012731
  7. Luhar M, AS Sharma and BJ McKeon (2016) On the design of optimal compliant walls for turbulence control, Journal of Turbulence, 17(8): 787-806
  8. Luhar M and HM Nepf (2016) Wave-induced dynamics of flexible blades, Journal of Fluids and Structures, 61: 20-41
  9. Luhar M, AS Sharma and BJ McKeon (2015) A framework for studying the effect of compliant surfaces on wall turbulence, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 768: 415-441
  10. Gomez F, HM Blackburn, M Rudman, BJ McKeon, M Luhar, Rashad Moarref, and AS Sharma (2014) On the origin of frequency sparsity in direct numerical simulations of turbulent pipe flow, Physics of Fluids, 26, 101703
  11. Luhar M, AS Sharma, and BJ McKeon (2014) On the structure and origin of pressure fluctuations in wall turbulence: predictions based on the resolvent analysis, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 751: 38-70
  12. Luhar M, AS Sharma, and BJ McKeon (2014) Opposition control within the resolvent analysis framework, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 749: 597-626
  13. Luhar M, E Infantes, A Orfila, J Terrados, and HM Nepf (2013) Field observations of wave-induced streaming through a submerged seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) meadow, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, 118: 1955–1968
  14. Luhar M and HM Nepf (2013) From the blade scale to the reach scale: a characterization of aquatic vegetative drag, Advances in Water Resources, 51: 305-316 (invited article)
  15. Infantes E, A Orfila, G Simarro, J Terrados, M Luhar, and HM Nepf (2012) Effect of a seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) meadow on wave propagation, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 456: 63-72
  16. Marcos*, JR Seymour*, M Luhar*, WM Durham*, JG Mitchell, A Macke, and R Stocker* (2011) Microbial alignment in flow changes ocean light climate, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 108(10): 3860 (*authors contributed equally)
  17. Luhar M and HM Nepf (2011) Flow-induced reconfiguration of buoyant and flexible aquatic vegetation, Limnology and Oceanography, 56(6): 2003-2017
  18. Luhar M, S Coutu, E Infantes, S Fox, and HM Nepf (2010) Wave-induced velocities inside a model seagrass bed, Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, 115, C12005
  19. Luhar M, JT Rominger, and HM Nepf (2008) Interaction between flow, transport, and vegetation spatial structure, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 8(5): 423-439

Conference papers

  1. Efstathiou C and M Luhar (2017) Turbulent boundary layer measurements over permeable surfaces, Tenth International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP-10), Chicago, IL
  2. Luhar M (2017) Low-Order Models for Turbulent Flows over Complex Walls, Tenth International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP-10), Chicago, IL
  3. Luhar M, A Sharma and BJ McKeon (2015) On the design of optimal compliant walls for turbulence control, Ninth International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP-9), Melbourne, Australia
  4. Sharma A, R Moarref, M Luhar, DB Goldstein and BJ McKeon (2014) Effects of a gain-based optimal forcing on turbulent channel flow, 52nd Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA, National Harbor, MD
  5. Luhar M, AS Sharma, and BJ McKeon (2013) A systems approach to modeling opposition control in turbulent pipe flow, 43rd Fluid Dynamics Conference, AIAA, San Diego, CA
  6. Luhar M, AS Sharma and BJ McKeon (2013) Wall pressure fluctuations induced by coherent structures in turbulent pipe flow, Eighth International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP-8), Poitiers, France