New Project Funded for Storm Surge Warning System
WHIRLab received a new research grant from NJ Transit to design and develop a storm surge warning system to forecast and inform flooding in a railway station in NJ.(7/26/2021)
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Reconfigurable Array of High-Efficiency Hydrokinetic Energy Harvesting
WHIRLab received new funds from US DOE to spearhead the environmental impact of tidal energy harvesting.(2/23/2021)
AI-supported High Tide Flooding Monitoring
High-tide Flooding is challenging to monitor because the existing observation infrastructure is limited in coverage or updating frequency such as gauges and satellite sensing. Crowdsourcing is considered the most promising solution but extracting high-quality data is difficult. We are developing an AI-supported monoplotting tool that brings us to a new level of data mining from social media images. This week, we presented our preliminary results on the high tide flood of Newport Beach, CA in July 2020 in the 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Advances in Resilient and Intelligent Cities. This is the first Behzad's conference presentation. Congrats! More details are at here (11/10/2020)
WHIRLab cracks the 5G's impact on weather forrecasting
5G may have an unexpected impact on our daily life: less accurate weather forecasting. I'm excited to contribute to this study and look forward to developing solutions for the problem with the Rutgers WIN Lab. More details at here(10/15/2020)
Edenville Dam collapse shown in new 3D video made at Rutgers University
We recently used computer vision to 3D reconstruct the Edenville dam collapse. Please check the news report at here (6/28/2020)
New study to explore the frontier of flood monitoring using the AI-enabled social media
The new study is published in IEEE Access (6/28/2020)
A new grant to support the NJ DOT for climate-resilient transportation systems
WHIRLab with a Rutgers team to receive a grant from NJ DOT to work with NJDOT/NJDEP to develop planning tools to enhance climate resilience in transportation planning (4/15/2020)
WHIRLab contributed to inventing a new device to fight deadly infections
Tiny device could help professionals diagnose and fight deadly infections: New Device Quickly Detects Harmful Bacteria in Blood (3/23/2020)
How to save 95% computational time? A new paper about DRESSA is published
We published a new paper to completely describe the DRESSA method and applied to two practical problems. Please check it here: Efficient dimension reduction and surrogate-based sensitivity analysis for expensive models with high-dimensional outputs and How to save 95% of computational load of numerical modeling in examining the coastal protection decision scenarios (2/1/2020)
WHIRLab received two more grants
WHIRLab received 1) NJ Water Resources Resesarch Institute Grant for the project of "Security and Sensitivity of Hydrological Model Forecasting to the Disruption of Sensor Networks" and 2) a contract award from Colgate-Palmolive Company for the project of "Theoretical and numerical study on the biological fluid flow in dentinal tubules" (12/11/2019)
First federal grant awarded!!
Department of Energy Announced $1.3 million to fund our project of "Computationally Efficient Atmospheric-Data-Driven Control Co-Design Optimization Framework with Mixed-Fidelity Fluid and Structure Analysis". The project is led by Dr Onur Bilgen at Mechanical Engineering, Rutgers (09/20/2019)
Looking for motivated students to join WHIRLab
Various research opportunities will be available at WHIRLab. Motivated students are encouraged to send their CVs to Dr. Wang at rq.wang@rutgers.edu for inquiries. Undergraduate interns, visiting scholars/students, and Master/PhD students are all welcome. (06/30/2019)
New Grants Awarded
Recently, WHIRL lab received three grants: The Rutgers Raritan River Consortium Mini-grant, Rutgers Research Council Grant, and Rutgers Energy Institute Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Grant! These will allow us to do AI, Offshore Wind, and Coastal Flood research. (06/03/2019)
Turbulence Characteristics and Mass Transport in the Near-Wake Region of an Aquaculture Cage
Aquaculture is booming in the world. Its environmental impact on the coastal development is still poorly understood. We published a new study to experimentally analyze the turbulent transport characteristics in the wake zone of the fish cage. The study is published in Water (2/23/2021).
Nature Human Behaviour Paper published
Twitter announced it would remove the precise geotagging feature in tweets. In addition to protecting the location privacy of users, this change also affects human behavior studies based on geotagged tweets. We discussed the potential impact of Twitter’s decision and how researchers can respond to this change. Very excited to publish in Nature journals for the first time. Thank you for the great collaboration, Yingjie Hu! The paper is at here (11/2/2020)
Satellite-based Ocean Wave Estimate
David presented in this week's virtual meeting of NSF EarthCube, Thursday June 18th. We are investigating how SAR satellite imagery can be used to provide an estimate of significant wave height. Congrats to the first conference presentation of David! (6/18/20)
Shreya Patil received funding from the Project SUPER program
Project SUPER (Science for Undergraduates: A Program for Excellence in Research) is a STEM-focused enrichment program that offers undergraduate women the opportunity to actively participate in academic research. She is working on data-driven recognition of chemical structures using AFM microscopy collaborating with ExxonMobile. Good job, Shreya! (06/20/2020)
How to better manage ash in engine?
WHIRLab joined a group to review the recent advances in managing ash in engines: The origin, transport, and evolution of ash in engine particulate filters (4/1/2020)
Coupling wind turbines and ocean-atmosphere modeling
Dr. Wang presented in the 2020 Ocean Sciences Meeting about offshore wind energy: Multi-scale Interaction between Wind Turbines and Coastal Processes: coupling OpenFAST with a regional coupled air-sea modeling system (2/16/2020)
New advances in Wave Energy Design
A new study to improve wave energy conversion is published: Hydrodynamic performance of an offshore-stationary OWC device with a horizontal bottom plate: Experimental and numerical study (12/11/2019)
A new CFD book published!
Our new CFD book has been published! Get it from here: Computational Fluid Dynamics: Applications in Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater Treatment (06/30/2019)
Invited talk at the Sustainable Urban Subsurface Systems Workshop
Dr. Wang gave an invited talk in the Sustainable Urban Subsurface Systems Workshop at New York University (06/25/2019)
Dr. Wang gave an invited talk at Princeton University
Dr. Wang was invited to give a presentation at the symposium of Building the Future: Smart Cities & New Technological Frontiers. (05/06/2019)
Co-organized a GeoAI session in the AAG Annual Meeting
We co-organized the GeoAI and Deep Learning Symposium: Geo-Text Data Analytics in the AAG Annual Meeting, Washington DC, 2019. (04/03/2019)
A Deformable Nano-sieve
We invented a new nanofluidic device that uses deformation to sieve particles of different sizes. The discovery has been published in Nanotechnology DOI. (06/03/2019)
Our lab has a wide spectrum of research topics, including coastal and urban resilience, environmental cyber-security, remote sensing, offshore wind energy, multiphase flows, nano-microfluidics, etc.
Please read our work in the research section.