Wind Engineering and Experimental Aerodynamics
Contact:
WEEA Program
Aerospace Eng. Dept
2271 Howe Hall, Rm 1200
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2271 U.S.A.
Undergraduate Students
| Students | Program/Course/ Project |
Term(s) | Advisor | Description
of Project |
| Molly Olson | Freshman Honors Program | Spring 2002 | Haan |
Non-stationary gust generator experiments and literature search |
| Jamie Cook | Freshman Honors Program | Spring 2002 | Sarkar |
Development of a diffuser for a hot-wire calibrator |
| Kevin Houstman | Freshman Honors Program | Spring 2003 Spring 2004 |
Haan |
Devp. of a roof wind load demonstrator, development of instructional materials and demonstrations for DTE of the Career grant |
| Matthew Orris | Freshman Honors Program | Spring 2003 | Haan |
Vehicle stability in high winds, MATLAB model, experimental wind tunnel work |
| Allen Ball | Freshman Honors Program | Spring 2004 | Haan |
Development of a pressure triggering system to locate the tornado vortex and trigger the PIV system for data acquisition |
| Nick Kreitinger | Freshman Honors Program | Spring 2004 | Sarkar |
Building a functional tabletop model of the ISU/Aer E tornado simulator |
| Kara Kranzusch | Honors Program | Spring 2004 | Haan |
Using neural networks to control abort commands for a 2009 Mars exploration mission (conducted at NASA Johnson Space Center in collaboration with ISU) |
| Ryan Kardell | Senior Project
(Atm. Science) |
Fall 2000 Spring 2001 |
Sarkar |
Influence of barriers on surface evaporation due to wind |
| Rebecca Heller | Senior Project | Spring 2001 Fall 2001 |
Sarkar |
Building of a wind tunnel for use in CTA calibration for turbulent flow measurement |
| John Stronck | Senior Project | Spring 2002 | Sarkar |
Development of a three-degree-of-freedom elastic suspension system for wind tunnel models |
| Nicholas Spencer-Berger | Senior Project | Spring 2002 | Haan |
Development of a gust generator prototype for an atmospheric boundary layer wind tunnel |
| Alan Samuelson | Senior Project | Fall 2002 Spring 2003 |
Sarkar |
Tractor trailer aerodynamic drag manipulation |
| Jordan Deters | Senior Project | Spring 2004 | Haan |
Design of bicycle racing helmet for reduced drag |
| Joshua Clemens | Research Project | Summer 2002 | Haan |
Experimental aerodynamics—pressure and hot wire measurements related to gust generator design and to flow through an air curtain diffuser |
| .Jamie Cook | Research Project | Fall 2002 Spring 2003 |
Sarkar |
Development of a hot-wire calibrator |
| Sarah Riggert | Research Project | Summer 2003 | Haan |
CFD validation literature search, setup of DTE equipment and Labview code development |
| Kyle Andringa | Research Project | Summer 2003 Spring 2004 |
Haan |
Setup and DTE lab equipment—including pressure scanners, hot wire anemometers and probes, force balances, data acquisition hardware, and Labview code development |
| Sumeet Gupta (Grad) | Research Project | Summer 2003 | Haan | CFD modeling of tornado vortex |
| Jamie Cook | Research Project | Fall 2003 Spring 2004 |
Sarkar |
Building a functional tabletop model of the ISU/Aer E Aero/ABL Wind Tunnel |
| Eric Faidley Derick Wolf Jordan Deters Andrew Stephenson John Stronck David Westman |
WiST Laboratory/WEEA Program Development | Fall 2000 Spring 2003 |
Sarkar | Refurbishment of Bill James Wind Tunnel |
| Ashvin Mahajan (Grad) Arindam G. Chowdhury (Grad) John Blattel-Britton |
WiST Laboratory/WEEA Program Development | Spring 2001 to Spring 2004 |
Sarkar | WEEA webpage development, solid modeling |
| Jordan Deters Dave Westman Andrew Stephenson |
WiST Laboratory/WEEA Program Development | Summer 2003 to Spring 2004 |
Sarkar | Assembling of
tornado/microburst simulator
And construction test section platform |