Research directions

Research Vision

Our mission is to advance fundamental fluid dynamics to develop innovative flow control strategies that enhance maneuverability, efficiency, and control of unmanned aerial and underwater vehicles, optimize renewable energy harvesting, and improve the performance of bio-inspired propulsion systems.


Adaptive Flow Control Using Smart Morphable Skin

Sareen Lab in the news! Check out the recent press release featuring our research here.

  1. Vilumbrales-Garcia R, Sudarsana PB, Sareen A. Adaptive drag reduction of a sphere using smart morphable skin. Flow. 2025;5:E17. doi:10.1017/flo.2025.7
  2. Putu Brahmanda Sudarsana, Rodrigo Vilumbrales-Garcia, Anchal Sareen; On the lift generation over a sphere using asymmetric roughness. Physics of Fluids 1 December 2024; 36 (12): 127137. doi.org/10.1063/5.0241948