Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Renewable Energy Laboratory

Our research focuses on measurement and prediction of environmental fluid mechanics, turbulent transport, and renewable energy.

We are interested in environmental boundary-layer (EBL) dynamics, atmospheric boundary layers, land- and lake-atmosphere interactions, large-eddy simulation (LES), and experimental boundary-layer turbulence studies of flows over complex terrain, urban areas, and wind farms. Our goal is to better understand interactions at environmental interfaces and improve prediction of transport and surface fluxes, including momentum, heat, water vapor, and trace gasses (e.g., CO₂ , CH₄ , and pollutants) by developing physically realistic and reliable models of Earth systems, e.g., ecosystem, lake, climate, weather and pollution models, by improving sub-grid scale and surface exchange parameterizations for EBLs over complex terrain.