Visiting Scholar (2017-2019)
Current Position: Associate Professor, Sichuan University, China
chaoliu (at) scu.edu.cn; liuchaoscu (at) vip.qq.com
At MIT I investigated how the spacing between floating islands (FTIs) deployed in series along a channel impacts the velocity field and mass removal. A large island spacing leads to a higher inflow rate into the root zone, but a smaller number of FTIs per channel length. These competing trends produce an optimum spacing, corresponding to a maximum mass removal per channel length.