id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt news-002832 Air flow research takes flight | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame .html text/html 688 27 51 Project members face a weighty to-do list over the next five years: Conceive and predict flow-control schemes and test them both in the wind tunnel and in flight; design a turret-like laser trapping device for the air experiments that captures and analyzes data; design two-aircraft send-and-receive experiments at flight speeds close to the speed of sound. Jumpers teamincluding research assistant professor Stanislav Gordeyev, visiting professor Mark Rennie, research specialist Dave Cavalieri, operations manager Mike Zenk and several graduate studentsprovides everything from the experimental and safety protocols of flight tests to analysis of the underlying principals of physics and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). cache/news-002832.html txt/news-002832.txt