Welcome to CMAT Lab

At the Complex Mixing and Advanced Turbulence lab, we understand and predict the action of turbulence in fluids for aerospace, maritime, atmospheric, energy, and chemical engineering applications.

Research activities of CMAT Lab involve:

Investigating various turbulence phenomena by developing and implementing advanced multi-diagnostic experimental approaches,
Developing stochastic metrics that better describe phenomena of engineering interest from first principles approach, and
Developing models that better predict these complex fluid flow behavior

We do these on a fundamental level so that the science we discover enables applied research on wide range of applications!

Want to be part of CMAT Lab?

There is an open post-doctoral opening starting Fall 2025 in experimental turbulence research. All students interested in joining the lab should read this first before reaching out.

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Where it occurs?

Airplanes, ships/submarines, gas and wind turbines, atmospheric phenomena, etc.

Why we study it?

Influences aerodynamic handling, drag characteristics, and heat transfer.
Determines atmospheric scalar transport, including pollutants and aerosols, cloud dynamics, etc.

Where does it occur?

Chemical industrial applications, jet engines fuel/air mixing, geophysical phenomena, etc.

Why do we study it?

Dictates the efficiency of engines.
Affects marine life through nutrient and pollutant transport.
Controls reaction progress in chemical industrial applications.

I am an old man now, and when I die and go to heaven there are two matters on which I hope for enlightenment. One is quantum electrodynamics, and the other is the turbulent motion of fluids. And about the former I am rather optimistic.

Sir Horace Lamb