Welcome to Fluid Learning, Outreach, And Transition (\(\mathcal{FLOAT}\)) education and outreach Program!
Outreach to UConn Boat Camp (5-6th grade students) by introducing “How to build an electric boat?”
Presentation in PowerPoint format with full video (200MB)
Presentation slides in pdf format (2MB)
Dr. Liu is giving a presentation: “How to build an electric boat?” in the Boat Camp.
Advising UConn Electric Boat Club (Undergraduate Club)
The UConn Electric Boat club (Instagram) will build an elctric boat to participate in the Promoting Electric Propulsion (PEP) boat racing.
UConn electric boat in 2026! https://www.navalengineers.org/UCONN
UConn electric boat in 2025 PEP boat racing!
See UConn Today news!
UConn electric boat in 2024 PEP boat racing!
UConn electric boat in 2023 PEP boat racing!
Mentoring high school researcher in partnership with Avon High School Achieve Internship Program
2026 Spring
Rohan Ganesh “Comparing CPU vs GPU performance of oceanic flow simulations using Oceananigans.jl” Code
2025 Summer
Saujas Kant “Solving inverse Navier-Stokes equations using neural networks” Code
Nabeel Chasmawala “Data assimilation of chaotic systems using DAPPER” Code
Nabeel Chasmawala and Saujas Kant presented their summer research posters in Avon High School (09/16/2025).
Nabeel and Saujas giving the presentation of their summer research presentation at UConn.
2024 Fall
Aditya Thakar “An optimization approach for analyzing nonlinear stability.” Next position: Undergraduate at University of Connecticut
Dr. Chang Liu, Aditya Thakar (Avon High School) presenting the poster for research intern, and intern coordinator Maria Mascoli from Avon High School.
2024 Summer
Jingrui (Ray) Hu “Solving compressible flow using physics-informed neural networks.” Next position: Undergraduate at University of California, Los Angeles. Code
Benjamin Machlus “Visualizing turbulent channel flow data.” Next position: Undergraduate at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Avon High School’s ACHIEVE Internship Program Showcase, September 17th, 2024. Benjamin Machlus and Jingrui (Ray) Hu are presenting their posters from their summer research intern.
Ray (left) and Ben (right) are giving a final presentation of their summer research.
Left: Intern coordinator Maria Mascoli from Avon High School, summer high school researchers Ben and Ray, and Dr. Liu. Right: Dr. Liu is meeting with two high school researchers discussing turbulent flows.
Developing a graduate course module in Nonlinear Systems class ME5895/ME3295/ECE6095
This course has been offered in Fall 2024, See syllabus.
Example course code on GitHub and Introduction slides of numerically searching for Lyapunov function using YALMIP and numerical bifurcation analysis using pde2path.
This course is also an elective course for undergraduate, which is in Dynamics and Control concentration.
Design of \(\mathcal{FLOAT}\) logo
\(\mathcal{FLOAT}\) refers to Fluid Learning, Outreach, And Transition. The “transition” word means transition to turbulence that is the core of our group’s research, and it also means transition from research to education as well as transition from education to research. The acronym FLOAT also implies two key component of this education program: Outreach to Boat Camp and advising UConn Electric Boat Club. The underwave of “FLOAT” indicates boats floating upon water waves.
The mathcal font of \(\mathcal{FLOAT}\) in our logo also connects to some standard notation in advanced STEM courses, such as Fourier transform (\(\mathcal{F}\)), Laplace transform or linear operator (\(\mathcal{L}\)), order of magnitude (\(\mathcal{O}\)), linear systems theory (\(\mathcal{A}\)), and general transformations (\(\mathcal{T}\)).
Acknowledgement
We acknowledge the support of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award with grant number CBET-2542711.