A research team led by Brian Thurow, chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and W. Allen and Martha Reed Professor, has been awarded a $1.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a single-camera imaging system capable of capturing high-speed and 3-D measurements in practical flow fields.A research team led by Brian Thurow, chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and W. Allen and Martha Reed Professor, has been awarded a $1.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a single-camera imaging system capable of capturing high-speed and 3-D measurements in practical flow fields.

Thurow’s lab developed a prototype that has been demonstrated as a simple, robust and effective 3-D imaging system. The grant will help researchers develop the hardware and software of the technology, which allows them to capture all the information they need in one snapshot, using just one piece of equipment.

Other researchers involved in the project include David Scarborough and Vrishank Raghav, also of the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Stanley Reeves of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Pavlos Vlachos of the Purdue University School of Mechanical Engineering.

Thurow said the technology would allow them to expand their research beyond aerospace to other areas including biomedical engineering and cardiovascular fluid mechanics.