ATLAS

About

Our vision is to observe, model, and simulate atmospheric turbulent processes through a rich database of high-resolution field data enabled by novel nano-scale measurement technologies. The goal of this research agenda is to enable the development of a spectrum of reduced-order models for turbulence representation optimally suited for the plethora of science and engineering problems facing society today and in the foreseeable future.

People

Faculty

Kelly Y. Huang

Kalsi Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
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Graduate Students

Reban Niraula

PhD Student

Hossein Motalebi

PhD Student

Heet Joshi

MS Student

Undergraduate Students

Sohan Bhamare

Ushanth Balasuriya

Nathaniel Durand

Thomas Moreno

Sonya Ortiz

Visiting Scholars

Milo

Professor in String Theory

Dusty

PhD Candidate in Materials Science

Pip

PhD Candidate in Music Theory

Alumni

2024
Evan Lin, HS Student
Eric Liu, HS Student
Filippo Pesenti, M.S.

2025
Emir Ancin, B.S.
Neel Gupta, B.S.
Christal Biney, B.S.
Neha Hakeem, HS Student
Atharv Shukla, HS Student

Papers

F. Pesenti , H. Motalebi , R. Niraula , G. G. Katul, K. Y. Huang, Directional Dynamics of Fog: Irreversibility and Causal Coupling with Turbulence (Under review).

K. Y. Huang, R. Niraula, G. G. Katul, Scaling laws for the longitudinal heat turbulent flux in the atmospheric surface layer (Under review).

H. J. S. Fernando et al., Fatima-GB: Searching Clarity within Marine Fog, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (2025).

T.J. Hintz, K. Y. Huang, S. W. Hoch, S. L. Bardoel, S. Gaberšek, I. Gultepe, J. Ruiz-Plancarte, E. Pardyjak, Q. Wang, and H. J. S. Fernando, A mechanism for coastal fog genesis at evening transition, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (2024).

K. Y. Huang, M. K. Fu, C. Byers, G. G. Katul, and A. D. Bragg, Logarithmic scaling of higher-order temperature moments in the atmospheric surface layer, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow (2023).

K. Y. Huang, G. G. Katul, T. J. Hintz, J. Ruiz-Plancarte, and H. J. S. Fernando, Fog intermittency and criticality, Atmosphere (2023).

H.J.S. Fernando, S. Wang, K. Y. Huang, and E. Creegan, Fog-laden density staircases in marine atmospheric boundary layer, Environmental Fluid Mechanics (2023).

K. Y. Huang and G. G. Katul, Profiles of high-order moments of longitudinal velocity explained by the random sweeping decorrelation hypothesis, Physical Review Fluids (2022).

K. Y. Huang, G. G. Katul, and M. Hultmark, Velocity and temperature dissimilarity in the surface layer uncovered by the telegraph approximation, Boundary-Layer Meteorology (2021).

K. Y. Huang, C. E. Brunner, M. K. Fu, K. Kokmanian, T. Morrison, A. O. Perelet, M. Calaf, E. Pardyjak, and M. Hultmark, Investigation of the atmospheric surface layer using a novel high-resolution sensor array, Experiments in Fluids (2021).

Projects

Updates coming soon!

Positions

We currently have no openings.

Posts

12/06/25 First gig for N65! Lab members Nathaniel, Reban, and Emir on stage as part of the Hurricane Melissa Relief Benefit Concert at Lucian’s, with the lab cheering from the crowd!

11/24/25 Presenting and volunteering at APS DFD in our home court!

5/24/25 The lab wraps up the spring semester with a day at the Space Center and Sylvan Beach, where soccer was played.

12/9/24 Pew pew! The ATLAS lab had a joint end-of-semester event with the AIM lab.

12/3/24 Congratulations to Filippo Pesenti on a successful Masters thesis defense!

8/17/24 The lab celebrates the end of summer!

Elements

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    i++;
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