Dr. Nate Werner
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Education
- BS. Engineering Science, Onondaga Community College
- BS. Mechanical Engineering, Clarkson University minoring in Math and Physics
- MS. Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
- Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
Experience Record
- Graduate Research Assistant – BioRob-InFL Lab at Penn State under Bo Cheng
- Teaching Assistant at Penn State for several courses in Mechanical Engineering
- Presented research at the American Physical Society – Division of Fluid Mechanics in 2017 and 2019
- Several internships at Welch Allyn (now Hill-Rom) in mechanical engineering, computer engineering, and metrology
Specialty Areas
- Fluid dynamics
- Vorticity dynamics
- Aerodynamics of insects, bats, and small birds
- Quasi-steady models of insect flight
- Leading-Edge Vortex stability in revolving and flapping wings at intermediate Reynolds numbers
- Biomimetics
- Finite Difference Methods
- Particle Tracking Velocimetry
- Dimensional Analysis
- MATLAB and Simulink
Publications
- Werner, N. H., Chung, H., Wang, J., Liu, G., Cimbala, J. M., Dong, H., & Cheng, B. (2019). Radial planetary vorticity tilting in the leading-edge vortex of revolving wings. Physics of Fluids, 31(4), 041902.
- Werner, N. H., Wang, J., Dong, H., Panah, A. E., & Cheng, B. (2020). Scaling the vorticity dynamics in the leading-edge vortices of revolving wings with two directional length scales. Physics of Fluids, 32(12), 121903.