Research Interests
- Advanced flow diagnosis
- Particle Dynamics
- Geophysical flows, complex boundary layer processes
- Flow-structure interaction
- Wind and Hydrokinetic energy
Education
- Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Minor, University of Minnesota, 2010.
- M.Sc. Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2008.
Courses Taught
- ME 310 - Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics
- TAM 532 - Viscous Flow
- TAM 537 - Experimental Fluid Mechanics
- TAM 538 - Turbulence
- TAM 539 - Fluid Mechanics Seminar
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs, Mechanical Science and Engineering
Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering
Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Affiliate, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor, Earth Science and Environmental Change
Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Recent Publications
Ahmed, F., & Chamorro, L. P. (2026). On Bio-Inspired Strategies for Flow Control, Fluid–Structure Interaction, and Thermal Transport. Biomimetics, 11(2), Article 143. https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics11020143
Baek, S., Rhee, J. H., Osler, S. K., Kim, M. P., Cheng, S., Chamorro, L. P., Ko, H., Robb, M. J., & Kim, G. (2026). Mechanophore-Based Multichannel Colorimetric Force Sensors: Ultrasound-Driven Stress and Strain Quantification. Advanced Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.77607
Caraway, B. D., Bogucki, R., Rafuna, I., Reyna, M., Cheng, S., & Chamorro, L. P. (2026). Frequency-domain correlation of nonuniform time series: Coherence across distant wind stations. Physics of Fluids, 38(1), Article 015105. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0311886
Fareed, B., Nadeem, M., Ullah, A., Molina, J. J., Yamamoto, R., Chamorro, L. P., & Hamid, A. (2026). Collective sedimentation of symmetric nonspherical particles in Stokes flow. Physical Review Fluids, 11(5), Article 054305. https://doi.org/10.1103/441B-P5MV
Kang, S., Wang, Y., Comer-Warner, S., Hannah, D., Krause, S., Best, J., & Chamorro, L. P. (2026). Collective settling and wake-driven interactions of density-heterogeneous particle arrays. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1035, Article A22. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2026.11570