My Field of Specialty :

Application of advanced analytical and computational methods in the thermo-fluid sciences.

 

My Research Interests :

• Analytical and computational solutions of partial differential equations.
• Theoretical and numerical investigations of instabilities in boundary layer flows and laminar-turbulent transition
• Improving numerical solution techniques by using faster multigrid algorithms.
• Application of adaptive grid strategy to numerical solution techniques.
• Development of serial and parallel numerical algorithms.

My research interests are mainly in computational fluid dynamics. However I have conducted several experiments during my Postdoc at University of Notre Dame for two years. I really enjoyed doing experiments and I would advise it to every person dealing with CFD. From my experience, I could say that most people dealing with CFD think that they are only dealing with numbers without realizing that they are actually dealing with physical problems. Experiments help to see and also feel the physical aspects of fluid dynamics.

Wind tunnel experiments I conducted :

• Conducted a wind tunnel experiment to investigate the response of the Klebanoff modes in the boundary layer to free stream vortical disturbances.
• Conducted active flow control wind tunnel experiments with glow discharge (plasma) actuators.

Lately I am involved with wind turbines. At Gebze Institute of Technology I lead a wind turbine design team. We are going to desing a wind turbine and then build it and test it in the long run.

 

My Research Groups :

Flow Stability and Transition Research Group :

Prof. Dr. Thomas C. Corke (University of Notre Dame)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Osamah Haddad (Jordan University of Science and Technology)

Incompressible Flow at High Reynolds Number Research Group :

Prof. Dr. Thomas C. Corke (University of Notre Dame)

Wind Turbine Research Group :

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Ata (Gebze Institute of Technology)

Asst. Prof. Dr. Hakan Hocaoglu (Gebze Institute of Technology)

Asst. Prof. Dr. Abdulkadir Balikci (Gebze Institute of Technology)

 

Not as a professional but rather as an hobbiest I am working on in the field of mechatronics and robotics. I am building robot arms, autonomous robots with vision sensing and and artificial intelligence, walking robots, bipeds, quadrupeds, hexapods and etc. I was always interested and good at building mechanisms since I was a child. Lately I decided to learn more about electrical and electronical engineering. I read many books and learned how to build microprocessor circuit boards, PIC programming and etc. Now I can build robots, control them with microprocessor boards I built, and program them. I am even planning to write a robotics book for hobiests in the future (if I have time). Please see my Lego Mindstorms page where I posted robotic creations I build and also my electronics projects.