Tim Colonius
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
colonius @ caltech.edu
Research Interests
We develop and use algorithms for simulation of complex, multiscale flow phenomena. Simulations can
provide key insights into the mechanics of unsteady flows, including
understanding of local and global instabilites, sources of sound, shock
dynamics, and interactions with a disperse phase such as cavitaiton bubbles.
The simulations also provide important data for reduced-order modeling
efforts. Our current research projects are on:
Fluid dynamics: global
instabilities, cavitation and bubble dynamics, aerodynamic sound
Control: closed-loop flow
control and reduced-order modeling
Biomedical fluid dynamics: shock-waves in medicine, lithotripsy and ultrasound
Numerical methods: interface
capturing, immersed-boundary methods, high-order-accurate methods, and
nonreflecting boundary conditions
Further information
Fun videos of flow simulations