FASt Lab in the News

• Oct. 2023 – FASt Lab is part of an Air Force Center of Excellence titled AEROMORPH, which will advance the sense-assess-response of high-speed morphing vehicles. The FASt Lab will investigate the use of vibratory dynamics for mechanical computation.
  • “Air Force grants $5 million for joint UF, FSU, FAMU research”, Main Street Daily News, Oct 30, 2023. https://www.mainstreetdailynews.com/news/air-force-grants-5-million-university-florida-research
  • “Air Force awards $5M to FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, University of Florida collaboration on new research Center of Excellence”, FSU News, Oct 27, 2023. https://news.fsu.edu/news/science-technology/2023/10/27/air-force-awards-5m-to-famu-fsu-college-of-engineering-university-of-florida-collaboration-on-new-research-center-of-excellence/
  • “AFRL grant launches Center of Excellence at FAMU-FSU College of Engineering”, AFRL, Oct 20, 2023.https://www.afrl.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3563509/afrl-grant-launches-center-of-excellence-at-famu-fsu-college-of-engineering/
• Nov. 2022 – “The Nebula: Improving Coastal Monitoring one Robotic Fish at a Time”. University of Florida Center for Coastal Solutions (CCS).
  • https://ccs.eng.ufl.edu/the-nebula-improving-coastal-monitoring-one-robotic-fish-at-a-time/ 

Journal Articles

1. Musgrave, P. F. (2021). Electro-hydro-elastic modeling of Structure-Borne Traveling Waves and their application to aquatic swimming motions. Journal of Fluids and Structures, 102, 103230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2021.103230
2. Musgrave, P. F., Albakri, M. I., & Phoenix, A. A. (2021). Guidelines and procedure for tailoring high-performance, steady-state traveling waves for propulsion and solid-state motion. Smart Materials and Structures, 30(2), 025013. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-665X/abd3d7
3. Musgrave, P. F., Albakri, M. I., Tenney, C, & Tarazaga, P. (2020). Generating and tailoring Structure-Borne Traveling Waves on two-dimensional surfaces. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 115417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2020.115417

Conference Proceedings (Select)

1. Hess, I. and P. Musgrave. The Role of Compliance in Generating Traveling Waves on a Bio-Inspired Flexible Propulsor. in Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems. 2022. American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Best paper in Bio-inspired Systems track at 2022 ASME SMASIS conference
2. Musgrave, P.F. and P.A. Tarazaga. Turbulent Boundary Layer over a Piezoelectrically Excited Traveling Wave Surface. in AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum. 2019
3. Musgrave, P.F. and P.A. Tarazaga. Skin friction drag reduction in turbulent flow using spanwise traveling surface waves. in SPIE Smart Structures and Materials+ Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring. 2017. International Society for Optics and Photonics
4. Musgrave, P., W. Zhou, and L. Zuo. Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting From Torsional Vibration. in ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. 2015. American Society of Mechanical Engineers.