News
August 2026
Check out the last MRV Challenge article comparing results of 3D flow velocity and passive scalar measurements performed independently by five teams using MRI techniques. The three-dimensional nature of the data, and the excellent agreement between data sets, corroborates the unique potential of MRI in fluid dynamics.
July 2026
Tuhin selected as 2026-27 UIUC/Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. Congratulations are in order!
July 2026
Maheen Kumar delivered an outstanding presentation of his work on particle effects on mini UAV brushless motors during the 2026 STEM Career Exploration and Symposium.
July 2026
Maheen Kumar and Romina Lugardo Perez perform outstanding research this summer while participating in the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) at UIUC. They presented their work at the poster session of the 2026 STEM Career Exploration and Symposium
June 2026
An honor to have been invited as a Compressible Multiphase Flow Minisymposia Keynote lecture speaker at the 20th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics conference in Pasadena, CA.
April 2026
Callahan receives the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congrats Callahan! .
April 2026
Check out Nicolas Rasmont's last paper on millimeter wave tomography to resolve spatial distributions of particles in dense suspension with sub-millisecond temporal resolution, published in Rev. of Sci. Instruments.
March 2026
Congratulations to Dr. Tuhin Bandopadhyay for a fantastic performance on his PhD defense!!! Fantastic work Dr. Bandopadhyay!
December 2025
Check out Benjamin Ringel's new paper "Unsteady spallation of low-density carbon fiber ablators" published in Carbon. Fantastic job and a great pleasure to work with Ben and team.
November 2025
Cutler's work on parachute textiles is featured in the 2024-2025 Beckman Institute Annual Report.
July 2025
Nick's work featured in the 2025 UPDate AE Newsletter, "New instrument uses radar to see what the eye can't see". Thanks Debra Larson for the nice article. Read the 2025 Newsletter.
July 2025
Cutler's work featured in the 2025 UPDate AE Newsletter, "A micro-scale look at how parachute textiles act under stress". Thanks Debra Larson for the nice article. Read the 2025 Newsletter .
June 2025
Tuhin's paper "Inertial particle cluster dynamics in the core region of a turbulent duct flow" is now published in the Int. Journal of Multiphase Flows! Congratulations for a fantastic work Tuhin.
June 2025
Luca Placco gets Outstanding Student Presentation Award, 2nd place, for his presentation at IPPW 2025. Congrats Luca!
April 2025
Tuhin Bandopadhyay receives an Aerospace Engineering Department Fellowship for outstanding academic and research achievements, supported by the Graduate College Block Grant Fund. 2025 AE awards
April 2025
A great pleasure to give invited MMAE seminar at Illinois Tech, Chicago.
April 2025
Check out our new paper on millimeter wave interferometry for measuring concentration of particles in dense multiphase flows, published on the Int. Journal of Multiphase flows. Read paper
April 2025
A great pleasure to have worked with Ted Heindel, Alberto Aliseda, Steven Ceccio, Paolo di Marco, and Nathanaël Machicoane on a review article of experimental methods for dispersed multiphase flow, as part of the '50 Years of International Journal of Multiphase Flow'. Read paper
April 2025
Congratulations to Dr. Nicolas Rasmont for an outstanding PhD defense. The conclusion of years of outstanding work. .
April 2025
Fantastic time at the 7th International Conference on Turbulence and Interactions held at La Palma. A great honor to be an invited keynote speaker presenting our recent work on turbulent particle laden flows.
March 2025
Third edition!! West Point Cadets come to UIUC for the longest to date Magnetic Resonance Velocimetry test campaign at the Beckman Institute. Two full days of successful scans to understand multi-building interactions and wind angle effects in ventilation dynamics. Kudos to the full team!
March 2025
Laura gives invited lecture at the Aerospace and Engineering Mechanics Department, University of Minnesota.
February 2025
Tuhin Bandopadhyay receives award to the "Best Technical Accomplishment" during the Graduate Programs Research Poster Competition organized by the Aerospace Department on February 23. His poster summarized his work on the development and application of Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Fluid Dynamics
February 2025
Laura presents at Stanford Fluid Mechanics seminar series, Stanford University.
January 2025
Claudia Jimenez Cuesta, from University of Glasgow, and Luca Placco, from University of Padova join the group as visiting scholars. Welcome!.
November 2024
Our collaboration with West Point and the Biomedical Imaging Center at Beckman Institute was featured in the 2023-2024 Beckman Institute's Annual Report, Science that Serves.
October 2024
Cutler's work using micro-CT scans to understand how stress impacts parachutes at the fiber-scale featured in Beckman's News. Read the story by Lauren Otolski: "A micro-scale look at how parachute textiles act under stress"
October 2024
"New instrument uses radar to measure what the eye can't see". Read about the work of Nicolas Rasmont featured in our AE department News, by Debra Larson.
October 2024
Laura gives invited seminar at the Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Institute, Michigan Tech University.
September 2024
Nicolas Rasmont and Lorenzo Bruni present at the Lunar Surface Science workshop on the first edition of Plume Surface Interaction focused talks
September 2024
Laura Villafañe named Associate Fellow of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics. Read more in the AE department News article by Debra Larson
September 2024
Laura gives invited seminar at Brown University Center for Fluid Mechanics.
August 2024
Cutler Phillippe's paper "In Situ Imaging of Parachute Textile Micro-Mechanics Under
Tensile Load" published in AIAA Journal. Great job Cutler!
June 2024
Update: CONGRATULATIONS!!! "HINDER: Holistic Integration of Navigational Dynamics for Erosion Reduction" WINS second place at NASA's Human Lander Challenge (HuLC) Forum. The UIUC team: a group of students pursuing their BS with majors in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Physics. Read the story in the Aerospace Department website, by Debra Larson.
June 2024
The UIUC HuLC team presents their work "HINDER: Holistic Integration of Navigational Dynamics for Erosion Reduction" at NASA's Human Lander Challenge (HuLC) Forum, an initiative supporting NASA's Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate's (ESDMD's) efforts to explore innovative solutions for a variety of known Human Landing System (HLS) challenge areas. All finalists team presentations will be livestreamed open to the general public. Full Livestream Agenda.