Dr. Daniel Floryan

Kalsi Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Office Location N231 Engineering Building 1

Phone 713-743-3557

Fax 713-743-4503

Email dfloryan [at] uh.edu

Website https://dfloryan.github.io/

Education

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2019

B.S., Cornell University

B.A., Cornell University

Professional Experience

Kalsi Assistant Professor, University of Houston, 2021-present

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Courses Taught

MECE 3363 Introduction to Fluid Mechanics

MECE 6397 Fluid Dynamics II

MECE 6397 Machine Learning for Fluid Mechanics

Research Interests

Fluid mechanics
Nonlinear dynamics
Bio-inspired flows
Applied mathematics
Scientific machine learning

Awards & Honors

Teaching Excellence Award, University of Houston, 2024

Thomas J. R. Hughes Fellowship, USNC/TAM, 2021

Porter Ogden Jacobus Honorific Fellowship, Princeton University, 2019

The Sibley Prize, Cornell University, 2014

Phi Beta Kappa, Cornell University, 2013

Selected Publications

Data-driven discovery of intrinsic dynamics
D. Floryan, M.D. Graham
Nature Machine Intelligence 4 (12), 1113-1120 (2022)
Citations: 65
Exact coherent states and the nonlinear dynamics of wall-bounded turbulent flows
M.D. Graham, D. Floryan
Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 53 (1), 227-253 (2021)
Citations: 101
Scaling and performance of simultaneously heaving and pitching foils
T. Van Buren, D. Floryan, A.J. Smits
AIAA Journal 57 (9), 3666-3677 (2019)
Citations: 110
Clarifying the relationship between efficiency and resonance for flexible inertial swimmers
D. Floryan, C.W. Rowley
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 853, 271-300
Efficient cruising for swimming and flying animals is dictated by fluid drag
D. Floryan, T. Van Buren, A.J. Smits
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (32), 8116-8118 (2018)
Citations: 112
Flow speed has little impact on propulsive characteristics of oscillating foils
T. Van Buren, D. Floryan, N. Wei, A.J. Smits
Physical Review Fluids 3 (1), 013103 (2018)
Citations: 62
Impact of trailing edge shape on the wake and propulsive performance of pitching panels
T. Van Buren, D. Floryan, D. Brunner, U. Senturk, A.J. Smits
Physical Review Fluids 2 (1), 014702 (2017)
Citations: 58
Scaling the propulsive performance of heaving and pitching foils
D. Floryan, T. Van Buren, C.W. Rowley, A.J. Smits
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 822, 386-397 (2017)
Citations: 178
High-bandwidth optical measurements of the second-mode instability in a Mach 6 quiet tunnel
J. Hofferth, R. Humble, D. Floryan, W. Saric
51st AIAA aerospace sciences meeting including the new horizons forum and … (2013)
Citations: 63
Drag reduction due to spatial thermal modulations
M.Z. Hossain, D. Floryan, J.M. Floryan
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 713, 398-419 (2012)
Citations: 46