SAFL Lab Insider Stories
Michael Heisel Defends PhD Thesis: Organization and scaling of coherent structures in the outer region of high-Reynolds-number turbulent boundary layers
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Ph.D candidate Michael Heisel successfully defended his Ph.D in Civil, Environmental, Geo- Engineering on May 4th, 2020. He is advised by Michele Guala of the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory and Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering at the University of Minnesota.
Alec Petersen defends PhD thesis: Laboratory Investigation of Disperse Multiphase-Turbulent Flows
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Ph.D candidate Alec Petersen successfully defended his Ph.D in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics on May 15th, 2020. He is advised by Filippo Coletti of the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory and Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota.
SAFL Director Appointed Dean of Engineering and Applied Sciences at SUNY Stony Brook
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SAFL Director Appointed Dean of Engineering and Applied Sciences at SUNY Stony Broo
SAFL Director Lian Shen selected as co-chair for offshore wind research advisory group
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Lian Shen, director of the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL) and professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, was recently selected as a co-chair of the research and development (R&D) advisory group for the National Offshore Wind Research & Development Consortium.
Amirreza Ghasemi selected as 2019-2020 Alvin Anderson award recipient
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This past Tuesday, February 4th, SAFL was pleased to award the 2019-2020 Alvin G. Anderson award to Amirreza Ghasemi, a PhD Student in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering. The Alvin G. Anderson Award is awarded annually to University of Minnesota students pursuing graduate studies in water resources. Special consideration is given to students involved in the sediment transportation field, which was Dr. Anderson's specialty when a professor at the University of Minnesota from 1950 until 1975.
Phd Students Sagar Tamang and Luci Baker named 2019 Edward Silberman Fellowship Recipients
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Two SAFL PhD students were recently named recipients of the 2019 Edward Silberman Fellowship at a special SAFL seminar on November 19th, 2019. Luci Baker, from the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics (AEM), and Sagar Tamang, from the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering (CEGE), were presented the fellowships for their outstanding research at SAFL. The fellowship award is paid for in honor of Edward Silberman by his family and friends to acknowledge his contribution to the lab.
Santosh Kumar chosen as 2018-2019 Edward Silberman Recipient
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Santosh Kumar, a Mechanical Engineering PhD candidate at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory was awarded the 2018-2019 Edward Silberman Award during a special SAFL seminar on November 13th, 2018. The Silberman Award is awarded annually for outstanding research at SAFL. The fellowship award is paid for in honor of Edward Silberman by his family and friends to acknowledge his contribution to the lab. Santosh received the award for his research titled, "Novel optical diagnostic tools for flow measurement near complex interfaces."
Spring 2020 Class List Taught by SAFL Faculty
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The following courses for Spring 2020 will be taught by SAFL-affiliated faculty:
SAFL awarded funding to design more environmentally-friendly hydropower technologies
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The St. Anthony Falls Laboratory at the University of Minnesota was recently selected for funding by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to design and develop a modular dam technology that could help lift barriers to development of new hydropower projects across the nation.
Tracking changes to global snowfall patterns in a warming world
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One of the anticipated impacts of global warming is the change in amount and distribution of snow across the globe. Using multi-satellite and reanalysis data, researchers at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL), University of Minnesota and the National Center for Atmospheric Research are analyzing how global snowfall patterns have changed over the past 40 years.