Beverley J. McKeon
Theodore van Karman Professor of Aeronautics
Research interests: fluid mechanics, turbulent boundary layers, flow control, morphing surfaces, resolvent analysis for reduced order modeling, data assimilation for unsteady flows, measurement techniques
Overview
Professor McKeon explores new ways to manipulate or control the boundary layer—the thin layer between a material and flowing air—to improve flow characteristics, such as a reduction of drag, noise, and structural loading or expansion of vehicle performance envelopes during travel. The unifying theme to her work is an experimental and theoretical approach at the intersection of fluid mechanics, control, and materials science to investigate fundamental flow questions, address efficiency and performance challenges in aerospace vehicle design, and respond to the energy conservation imperative in novel and efficient ways.
Specific interests include:
Modeling and control of wall-bounded flows using smart, morphing surfaces. Resolvent analysis as a tool for modeling turbulent, transitional and controlled flows; rigorous, system-level tools for understanding flow physics and design of flow control schemes. Assimilation of experimental data for efficient low-order flow modeling.
Measurement, definition and description of high Reynolds number wall turbulence. Interdisciplinary approaches to experimental flow manipulation for performance enhancement and understanding of fundamental flow physics; application of new materials to flow control.
Professor Beverley McKeon is a faculty member in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, effective 1/1/23.
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- Harms, Tanner D.;Brunton, Steven L. et al. (2024) Lagrangian gradient regression for the detection of coherent structures from sparse trajectory dataRoyal Society Open Science
- Arun, Rahul;Bae, H. Jane et al. (2023) Towards real-time reconstruction of velocity fluctuations in turbulent channel flowPhysical Review Fluids
- Jafari, Azadeh;McKeon, Beverley J. et al. (2023) Frequency-tuned surfaces for passive control of wall-bounded turbulent flow – a resolvent analysis studyJournal of Fluid Mechanics
- Baddoo, Peter J.;Herrmann, Benjamin et al. (2023) Physics-informed dynamic mode decompositionProceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
- McKeon, Beverley (2023) Applications of resolvent analysis in fluid mechanics
- Laskari, Angeliki;de Silva, Charitha M. et al. (2022) Spatiotemporal characteristics of uniform momentum zones: Experiments and modelingPhysical Review Fluids
- Baddoo, Peter J.;Herrmann, Benjamin et al. (2022) Kernel learning for robust dynamic mode decomposition: linear and nonlinear disambiguation optimizationProceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
- Garcia-Mayoral, Ricardo;Durbin, Paul et al. (2022) Modeling of high-Re, incompressible, non-equilibrium, rough-wall boundary layers for naval applications under NATO-AVT349
- Madhusudanan, Anagha;McKeon, Beverley J. (2022) Stochastic forcing to a linearized Navier-Stokes based model for laminar compressible boundary layers
- Saxton-Fox, Theresa;Lozano-Durán, Adrián et al. (2022) Amplitude and wall-normal distance variation of small scales in turbulent boundary layersPhysical Review Fluids