Publications

In preparation or under review

Butler, D., Nguyen, M., Dar, S., Eluchie, C., Wang, C.* (2025). Design of a low-turbulence free surface water tunnel and dye-visualization studies of turbulent free-surface wake. In preparation.

Wang. C*, Eluchie, C., Gharib, M. (2025). Experimental measurements of turbulent free-surface wake flow behind a bluff-body triangle wedge. In preparation

Eluchie, C., Dar, S., Wang. C*, . (2025). On the frequency dependence of the compliant surface based synthetic jet actuator. In preparation

Nguyen, M., Mohammad, M., Mohammad, H.,Ding, H., Wang, C., Turbulent drag reduction at high Reynolds numbers using laser-manufactured super-hydrophobic surface. In preparation

Wang. C*. (2025) On the physics of a special synthetic jet created by the oscillation of compliant surfaces, Journal of Fluid Mechanics.  Under review.

Journal publications

Wang, C*., & Gharib, M. (2022). Physics of a strongly oscillating axisymmetric air-water interface with a fixed boundary condition. Physical Review Fluids, 7(4), 044003.

Wang, C.*, & Gharib, M. (2022). On the Turbulent Drag Reduction Effect of the Dynamic Free-Slip Surface Method. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 10(7), 879.

 Wang, C.*, & Gharib, M. (2021). Local relaminarization mechanism induced by a dynamic free-slip boundary. Physical Review Fluids, 6(8), 084604.

Wang, C., & Gharib, M.* (2020). Effect of the dynamic slip boundary condition on the near-wall turbulent boundary layer. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 901, A11. Featured on the front cover of Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

Patents

Wang, C., Jeon, D., Grivel, M., Pereira, F., & Gharib, M. (2020). U.S. Patent No. 10,787,231. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Darolles, I. M., Fahimi, A., Wang, C., Aria, A. I., Cendon, L., & Gharib, M. (2021). U.S. Patent No. 11,056,712. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Conference papers

Cong Wang*, Morteza Gharib, “Turbulent drag reduction using a dynamic free-slip surface”, The 34th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics (2022).

 ( * indicates corresponding authors)

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