Welcome to
Fluid Dynamics Research LaboratoryDr.
Isaac Choutapalli, PhD
Assistant Professor of Mechanical
Engineering
The Fluid Dynamics Research Laboratory is located in the department of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas - Pan American, Edinburg, TX. It is equipped with state-of-the-art diagnostic and testing facilities that include a jet facility and optical flow diagnostics equipment. The main areas of reseach are advanced propulsion, flow control of high speed flows and aero-optics. The focus of the research is both basic and applied in nature. Some of the research projects include development of flow control techniques to reduce aero-optical aberrations in high-speed flows, thrust augmentation and noise reduction of pulsed jets and development of robust optical flow diagnostic techniques such as stereoscopic Particle Image Velocimetry (3D-PIV) and Background Oriented Schlieren (BOS).