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Wind Tunnel Experiment

Ph.D positions at University of Connecticut

Submitted by SamWeiZhang on
Ph.D. student positions are available within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Connecticut. The research topic in Dr. Zhang's lab is interdisciplinary by nature, spanning over structural dynamics, fluid mechanics, finite element analysis, solid mechanics, and structural reliability. The positions will be filled in 2014 Spring and Fall.

Research background in the following areas is preferred: 
1. Fatigue and fracture of materials and structures;

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In our wind tunnel experiments, we have wake survey of a cylinder and boundary layer measurement for a thin flat plate as two experiments. We measure the stagnation pressure(Pt) at points using a pitot tube. We also measure the static pressure of the free stream Pinf.