Faculty
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 - 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 - Clarifying the relationship between efficiency and resonance for flexible inertial swimmers
D. Floryan, C.W. Rowley
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 853, 271-300 - 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