| News Story | This is a story done by the USC Chronicle on my research into Low Reynolds Number Aerodynamics. The story also discusses my advisor's involvement in research in Sweden on bird flight. Overall, a very good piece. |
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Qualifying Exam
(Proposal of Research) |
Here's my qualifying exam. It summarizes the literature review that I've done, presents some of the research that I have completed, and poses questions to be answered. I presented this in August of 2007. |
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Vortex Visualized
Over a Swept Wing |
This is a series of raw image files taken during a PIV experiment. The experiment is conducted on a 60 deg swept wing of Aspect Ratio 6, with a 5% cambered circular-arc airfoil, with chord of 4.5 cm, at speed 1.6 m/s, in a wind tunnel. The resultant chord Reynolds number is approximately 5,000. The laser is moved in the span-wise direction while the images are acquired. The laser moves from approximately 2.1 cm from the apex, to 4.1 cm from the apex. The time between images is approximately 620 us. |
| Dissertation | Here's the final draft of my dissertation. I defended on 19 August 2008. |
| Dissertation Presentation | Here's the dissertation presentation. |
| Iridescent | A non-profit started by a friend and colleague, Tara Chklovski. Her focus is to change and improve the US education system, especially for math and science education of inner-city youth, Thus far, the three most unique ideas are Engineers As Teachers, Hands On Science, and Science For The Family. |
| Micro Air Vehicle Video | This is a video I made of the first flight of the Micro Air Vehicle built at USC. Dan Frohlich, Syed Feruz, and I designed and built the plane. This video is taken in the Simi Valley and the pilot is John Asplund, an engineer at Aerovironment at the time. |
| USC Micro Air Vehicle Website | This is the website of the USC Micro Air Vehicle Team. I founded the team in 2003, but the team has not been active since 2005, when I started doing research for my PhD. Maybe someday I will find time to build small flying things again. One can only hope... |
| How To Use LaTeX | This is basically a brief description and help for getting LaTeX up and running on your PC. It's basically just the way that I did it, and it seems to work. I use Windows XP, so it should work on that no problem. I doubt my instructions would help for anyone not using Windows. |