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Home Our Current Research Projects Nano-PIV Liquid Protection in Fusion Energy Fish Hearing Contact Us		The FLOID Lab develops and uses optical diagnostic techniques to study fundamental single- and two-phase fluid flows on spatial scales ranging from a few hundred nanometers to a few meters. These experiments are motivated by a wide range of applications including: Transport and mixing in micro-total analysis systems, or "labs on a chip", at the nanoscale Compact underwater acoustic sensors inspired by fish ears Using liquid sheets and films to protect solid structures in commercial fusion energy power plants Recycling and filtering fluids in space habitats Wear at the sub-micron, or nanoscale, including chemical-mechanical polishing of silicon wafers in IC manufacture Improving the mechanical properties of paper using on-line control of headbox flows The group works with Georgia Tech faculty in Mechanical Engineering in MEMS, Acoustics, Nuclear Energy and Manufacturing and GT faculty in Materials Science and Engineering, as well as colleagues at Oak Ridge National Laboratories, the Institute for Paper Science and Technology and Ohio State University. These projects are supported by several agencies including DARPA, DOE, ONR, NASA and NSF.

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