• On July 25, 2024, Undergraduate student, Peter Parrish, won the Sustainability Award in the Summer Research and Project Showcase event of Clarkson University.  Peter’s presentation is titled “Large Eddy Simulations of Two Canoe Paddles.”
  • On May 21, 2024, Charles Liang gave a poster presentation to industrial partners at the 2024 Annual CAMP Meeting titled “Large Eddy Simulations of Canoe Paddling, Ducted Wind Turbine, and Naval Waterjet Propulsion by Peter Parrish, Chi Ding, Stephen Monroe, and Chunlei Liang.”
  • On April 19, 2024, Stephen Monroe successfully defended his M.S. thesis titled “URANS and LES Studies of Turbulent Flows in an ONR Waterjet Pump using Unstructured Grids with Sliding Mesh Interfaces.”
  • Stephen Monroe won the 2023 AIAA Abe M. Zarem Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Achievement in Aeronautics. 
  • Steve Monroe presented his work at the AIAA Region I conference on March 31, 2023. He also won a third-place prize in the Master’s category. His paper was titled “Parallel Unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (URANS) Studies of the Performance of ONR Waterjet AxWJ-2.”
  • On September 27, 2021, Chi Ding successfully defended his M.S. thesis titled “High-order large-eddy simulations of a ducted wind turbine.”
  • Harry Werner won 1st place in the Master’s category at the 2020 AIAA Region I Conference. His presentation was titled “3-D Large Eddy Simulation of Dynamic Stall on a Dynamically Pitching Airfoil.”
  • Christopher Cox -George Washington University Research Day 2015, SEAS Graduate Theoretical Award: First Prize. Presentation Title: “Development of a fast algorithm for solving the unsteady Incompressible Navier-Stokes equations”, Advised by Professors Chunlei Liang and Michael Plesniak.
  • Dr. Liang receives 2014 AIAA National Capital Section Hal Andrews Young Engineer Scientist of the Year Award.
  • Andrew DeJong presented his work at the 2014 joint UMD, JHU, and GWU Fluid Dynamics Symposium. Andrew also won a “best presentation” award. His presentation was titled “High-Fidelity Numerical Models of Vortex-Induced Energy Harvester.” 
  • Todd Dillon won 2nd place at the AIAA Region I Conference held in Johns Hopkins University in 2013. His presentation was titled “Automatic Mesh Deforming Tool for CFD using Unstructured Quadrilateral Elements.”
  • Christopher Cox, Chunlei Liang, and Michael Plesniak, Spectral Difference Solution of Incompressible Flow Over an Inline Tube Bundle With Oscillating Cylinder, 2012 was selected as the best paper by the ASME PVP Conference.

Professor Liang receives one ONR YIP Award, April 24, 2014