Environmental Flow Physics Lab
EFPL @ Columbia University
Our group focuses on both fundamental and applied problems related to fluid dynamics and turbulence, with an emphasis on environmental flows. We focus on challenges related to atmospheric boundary layer flow phenomena and wind engineering, using supercomputers and analytical methods.
Current research areas include turbulence and turbulent transport in urban and plant canopies, flow in complex terrain, hurricane boundary layer turbulence, uncertainty quantification and artificial intelligence techniques for turbulence modeling.
Recent News
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Early Career Program Award from the Army Research Office: Quantifying the Impact of Surface Uncertainties on the Aerodynamic Properties of Built Environments. Click here for more details.
Oct 10, 2022
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New paper in BLM proposing a framework to quantify uncertainty in flow over and within plant canopies. Congratulations Beatrice! doi:10.1007/s10546-022-00718-5
Jul 29, 2022
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PhD students Atharva Sathe and Beatrice Giacomini recognized with TA Excellence Awards for their outstanding contribution as Teaching Assistants in the Fluid Mechanics class. Congratulations!
May 4, 2022
More News
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New project to support aerial drone operations: The Prime Air Hyperlocal Wind Model. Thank you, Amazon!
Jan 9, 2023
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New Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) Award from the Army Research Office: Distributed Sensor Network for Land‐Atmosphere Interaction Research.
Nov 22, 2022
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Welcome to Sofia Farina who joins our group from the University of Trento as visiting Ph.D. student on a prestigious Fullbright Scholarship!
Nov 14, 2022
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PhD student Weiyi Li recognized with the prestigious Boris Bakhmeteff award for his contributions to fluid dynamics research. Congratulations Weiyi!
Aug 10, 2022
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New project: Characterization of Hurricane Boundary Layer Turbulence for Wind Hazard Mitigation. This effort contributes to the Disaster Resilience Research Grant (DRRG) program, which is jointly funded by NSF and NIST. Click here for mode details.
June 4, 2022
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New project: Data Driven Models for Vegetation-Atmosphere Interaction. Collaboration with Professors Ensheng, Fish, Lawrence, and Vondrick. Thank you, LEAP NSF Science Technology Center!
Feb 20, 2022
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Our group secured a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) award for the acquisition of an aerial light detection and ranging system. Click here for more details.
Dec 10, 2021
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Marco will give a talk on hurricane turbulence at the Parsons Laboratory Seminar Series at MIT on Dec 3rd, 2021.
Oct 20, 2021
Industry Partnerships
back to topThe Environmental Flow Physics Lab contributes its expertise in turbulence, computational fluid dynamics, and urban flow dynamics to help industry partners tackle challenging engineering problems. We partner with Amazon to improve flight dynamics of package delivery drones as part of the Amazon Prime Air project. We are also starting a new collaboration with the engineering and technology company Thornton Tomasetti.
Contact & Location
back to topDr. Marco G. Giometto
- Seeley W. Mudd Building, Room 638
- 500 W. 120th Steet, New York, NY 10027
- Tel (212) 853-1799
- mg3929@columbia.edu
Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics
- Seeley W. Mudd Building, Room 610
- 500 W. 120th Steet, New York, NY 10027
- Tel (212) 854-2993
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