Luc

Deike

Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the High Meadows Environmental Institute

Research interests: Fundamental fluid dynamics with an emphasis on non-linear and multi-scale systems. Addressing fundamental physics problems related to environmental and industrial applications, including the statistics of waves in the ocean, floating ice sheets, gas transfer by surface breaking waves in the ocean, and spray dynamics in the atmosphere.

(Footage courtesy of the researchers, display by Bumper DeJesus.)

Bursting bubbles move microplastics from the ocean to the atmosphere

Engineering faculty recognized for excellence in teaching

Photo of a city from afar, with grass in foreground. This is the Meadowlands. — Mario Gandelsonas, Princeton’s Class of 1913 Lecturer in Architecture, professor of architecture, and director of the Program in Urban Studies, has been leading an assessment of the New Jersey Meadowlands (pictured) as a potential national climate park that would mitigate the effects of climate change.

Princeton research is pursuing a sustainable future for New Jersey and the world

Researcher exposes fire-retardant and untreated control material to flame — Postdoctoral research associate Xiaohui Xu (pictured) and professor Rodney Priestley received funding to develop a fire-retardant spray. Photos by David Kelly Crow

Innovation funds support advances in bioengineering, machine learning and materials science

Before-and-after images of computer vision technology showing a city street in heavy snow — One of this year’s Metropolis Project grants is supporting work led by Felix Heide, an assistant professor of computer science, to improve the imaging and computer vision capabilities of sensors for autonomous vehicles. The left panel shows a street scene in heavy snow using a standard vehicle imaging system, while the right panel shows the output of ZeroScatter, a technique developed by Heide’s team that improves image quality and reveals objects at long distances, such as the house at the end of the road.

Metropolis Project backs solutions for safer, more resilient cities

Junior faculty awards recognize excellence in research and teaching

Student uses drill press while others observe.

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Solving problems in energy, combustion, fluids, lasers, materials science, robotics and control systems, and nuclear security

Luc Deike