Manipulation and control of shear flows in a broad range of applications, including reacting and nonreacting mixing processes, enhancement of the aerodynamic performance of airborne and underwater vehicles, small-scale combustion-driven power systems, jet thrust vectoring and noise reduction, fluidic-driven heat transfer with an emphasis on electronic cooling, fluid atomization, and the development of novel fluidic actuator technologies including microelectromechanical systems based (MEMS) actuators
