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Category: Milestones

  • NRG’s Aquagga Wins 2020 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge

    NRG’s Aquagga Wins 2020 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge

    The 2020 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge (EIC), hosted by the UW Foster School’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship, named Aquagga, co-founded by Brian Pinkard of UW Mechanical Engineering (ME) Novosselov Research Group and the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), as $15,000 Alaska Airlines Grand Prize winners, extending the ME department’s and specially the Novosselov Research Group streak to two years in a row.

    In a competition that was held completely virtually and included a strong showing from ME with four teams named as finalists, Aquagga’s patented technology for destroying toxic and hard-to-treat PFAS chemicals wowed judges and earned them both the grand prize and the $1,000 UW Grand Challenges Impact Lab domestic prize.

    More Information can be found here!

  • The Women of Fluid Mechanics

    Happy International Women’s Day!

    In honor of all the women across the world, we’d like the share a recent article one of our students, Courtney Otani, wrote for the American Physical Society.  Sharing her experience as a woman in engineering, Otani writes about her time attending the 2019 APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) and her engineering career.  While engineering and STEM currently remains heavily male dominant, we’d like to applause all the women who previously worked or are currently working hard to seek equal recognition.

    Otani’s full article can be read here.

  • AeroSpec Selected for UW’s Jones + Foster Accelerator

    AeroSpec Selected for UW’s Jones + Foster Accelerator

    The winner of past startup competitions, AeroSpec, has now been selected as one of the recipients of the Jones + Foster Accelerator program.  Guided by the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business, AeroSpec will receive up to $25,000 after they completing six months of milestones under the mentorship of industry leaders from across the community. The J+F Accelerator has now awarded more than $1.4 million since the program began in 2010.

    AeroSpec provides a complete air quality monitoring system for the industrial segment using off-the-shelf electronics and proprietary software to create a real time air quality heat map of an indoor facility. “AeroSpec started the program with many possible directions,” said CEO Sep Makhsous. “Now we have a focused 3-year plan with clear goals and milestones to achieve.” AeroSpec is scheduled to officially launch in January 2021.

    More information can be found at UW’s Foster Blog.  If you are interested in joining AeroSpec, please reach out to Sep.

  • NRG Explores Electrohydrodynamic Flow in 2019

    NRG Explores Electrohydrodynamic Flow in 2019

    2019 proves to be a strong year for NRG’s research in electrohydrodynamic flow.  Electrohydrodynamics (EHD) involves the study of plasma actuators to generate plasma that can then be controlled with the application of an external flow, and in the past year NRG has produced 10 articles involving analytical, experimental, and numerical investigations of EHD.  From conference appearances to journal publications, NRG hopes to continue push the boundaries of EHD.  Related articles can be found here:

    • Novosselov, I.; Aliseda, A.; Riley, J.; Guan, Y., Study of Laminar Electrohydrodynamic Flows. Novosselov, I.; Aliseda, A.; Riley, J., Eds. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing: 2019.
    • Vaddi, R. S.; Guan, Y.; Novosselov, I., Particle Dynamics in Corona Induced Electro-hydrodynamic Flow. 2019.
    • Vaddi, R. S.; Guan, Y.; Chen, Z. Y.; Mamishev, A.; Novosselov, I., Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Corona Discharge Induced Flow on a Flat Plate. 2019.
    • Prasad, H. K. H.; Vaddi, R. S.; Chukewad, Y. M.; Dedic, E.; Novosselov, I.; Fuller, S. B., A laser-microfabricated electrohydrodynamic thruster for centimeter-scale aerial robots. 2019.
    • Guan, Y.; Vaddi, R. S.; Aliseda, A.; Novosselov, I., Comparison of Analytical and Numerical Models for Point to Ring Electro-Hydrodynamic Flow. 2019
    • Guan, Y.; Riley, J.; Novosselov, I., Three-dimensional Electro-convective Vortices in Cross-flow. 2019.
    • Vaddi, R. S.; Novosselov, I., Analytical Model for Electrohydrodynamic Thrust. Bulletin of the American Physical Society 2019.
    • Fillingham, P.; Guan, Y.; Sankar Vadi, R.; Novosselov, I., Numerical, Experimental and Analytical Investigation of the Planar Electrohydrodynamic Wall Jet. Bulletin of the American Physical Society 2019, 64.
    • Guan, Y.; Novosselov, I., Two relaxation time lattice Boltzmann method coupled to fast Fourier transform Poisson solver: Application to electroconvective flow. Journal of Computational Physics 2019, 397.
    • Guan, Y.; Riley, J.; Novosselov, I., Numerical analysis of 2D and 3D electrohydrodynamic convection instability with crossflow. Bulletin of the American Physical Society 2019.