Teaching and Outreach

Teaching

Fall 2020
ME 3414: Fluid Dynamics
(M 8-8:50am, TR, 12:30-1:45pm)

Description: Comprehensive first course in fluid dynamics. Fluid properties. Hydrostatics. Mass, momentum,and energy conservation in control volumes. Elementary dynamics and Bernoulli's equation.Dimensional analysis and similitude. Laminar and turbulent flows. Introduction to Euler's and Navier-Stokes equations. Pipe flows. External flows and boundary layers. Introduction to compressible flows.

Outreach

Summer Camps:
Our research group runs summer camp modules in conjunction with the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED). From 2016-20, we have held 17 total camps with themes of “Jumping Drops and Ice Bridges!” and "Tree-Inspired Water and Energy Harvesting" for groups of high-school female students (C-Tech² Camp) and middle school students (Imagination Camp) These camps showcased visually exciting and hands-on examples of phase-change phenomena such as jumping-droplet condensation, inter-droplet ice bridging, and transpiration in synthetic trees.

A game to demonstrate frost growth — Playing a game outside to demonstrate how frost growth works.

Inter-droplet frost growth demonstration — Students snapped a mini-microscope onto their smart phones to observe inter-droplet frost growth.

Bio-Inspired Science & Technology (BIST)

Prof. Boreyko is a founding member of the Bio-Inspired Science & Technology (BIST) Center, which provides a collaborative platform for interdisciplinary research between engineering and the life sciences.

Art & Science Integration

Prof. Boreyko believes that art is a powerful way to communicate scientific concepts, both to technical and general audiences. Sallie Wolf, an artist based in Chicago, provided a watercolor illustration to complement the journal article ‘Dynamic morphologies of microscale droplet interface bilayers’, which was featured on the back cover of Soft Matter. He has also collaborated with Mary Katherine Chin, an art teacher at Woodland Elementary School in Oak Ridge, TN, to create the artwork and logo for his Nature-Inspired Fluids & Interfaces Lab. If you are an artist or photographer interested in collaborating with Prof. Boreyko, please contact him at boreyko@vt.edu.

Sallie Wolf watercolor — Dynamic morphologies of microscale droplet interface bilayers, watercolor by Sallie Wolf

Lake painting — This artwork by Mary Katherine Chin represents our desire to draw inspiration from nature to develop novel technologies and systems.

NIFI student Farzad Ahmadi studied photography to capture this beautiful image sequence of a freezing bubble.

We worked with photographer John Lloyd to capture these images of a bubble freezing outside during wintertime in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Latest News

10/6/20: Our paper on how Fog Harps operate in a heavy outdoor fog has been published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congrats to Weiwei and team!

8/18/20: Congrats to Mojtaba, Kevin, and Ranit for their paper on bridging-droplet thermal diodes getting published in Advanced Functional Materials!

6/11/20: Prof. Boreyko has received tenure with promotion to associate professor. A big thanks to my mentors, Prof. Chuan-Hua Chen and Dr. Patrick Collier, collaborators, and all of my wonderful students who made this possible!

4/16/20: Read this new paper in Advanced Sustainable Systems to find out how Fog Harps can harvest water even in a light fog! Congrats to Weiwei, Thomas, Brandon, and Prof. Kennedy!

3/30/20: Congrats to Viverjita for defending her MS thesis! We will miss you but are excited about your future adventures in ecology.

3/24/20: Weiwei has successfully defended her PhD thesis! Thanks for all of your outstanding work on the Fog Harp and synthetic tree projects, NIFI will miss your bright presence in our group!

2/18/20: Congrats to Pranav, Tejas, and Andrew, for their paper in Langmuir on using evaporating droplets to characterize hygroscopic materials.

2/7/20: Congrats to Saurabh and Farzad, who captured the physics of inter-droplet ice bridging in their new Soft Matter paper.

1/15/20: Congrats to Kaavya for winning the MII Adhesive Manufacturing Scholarship for her research with NIFI!

1/14/20: Congrats to Weiwei and the senior project team of Richard, Collin, David, Ziad, and Daniel, whose paper in Scientific Reports shows how to build a tall and scalable synthetic tree.

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