Bridget Benner

Mechanical Engineering

Assistant Professor

Contact Information

bbenner2@uwyo.edu

EN 2020

She/her

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Research Interests:

  • Experimental Fluid-Structure Interactions
  • Wind Energy
  • Blade Aerodynamics

 

Education:

  • Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2024
  • M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2023
  • B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2018
  • A.S. in Engineering, Bunker Hill Community College, 2016

 

Teaching:

  • ME 5475: Fluid-Structure Interactions
  • ME/ESE 4470, ME 5470: Wind and Ocean Energy Engineering

 

Professional Experience:

  • Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Wyoming, 2025-current
  • Hibbitt Engineering Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Brown University, 2024-2025
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2020-2024

 

Selected Publications:

B.M. Benner, A. G. Carleton, Y. Modarres-Sadeghi (2025). Transition from Vortex-Induced Vibrations to Galloping in a Flexible Square Prism. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 1007,  A76. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2025.95

 

P.R. Boersma, E. DeWitt, F. Thurber, B.M. Benner, P. Riahi, Y. Modarres-Sadeghi (2023). On symmetric and Alternating-Symmetric Patterns in the Wake of a Cylinder Undergoing Vortex-Induced Vibrations in the Inline or Close to the Inline Direction. Journal of Fluids and Structures. 119, 103886. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2023.103886

 

M. Edraki, B. Benner, Y. Modarres-Sadeghi (2023). Energy Extraction from Galloping of a Triangular Prism Forced to Oscillate at a Fixed Magnitude. Journal of Fluids and Structures. 118, 103840. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2023.103840

 

P. Boersma, B. Benner, T. Currier, Y. Modarres-Sadeghi (2022). Experimental Evidence of Vortex-Induced Vibrations and Coupled-Mode Flutter in a Two-Meter Long Non-Rotating Wind Turbine Blade. Journal of Fluids and Structures. 112, 103611. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2022.103611

 

B.M. Benner, Y. Modarres-Sadeghi (2021). Vortex-Induced Vibrations of a One-Degree-of-Freedom Cylinder Transitioning from the Inline to the Crossflow Degree of Freedom. Physical Review Fluids. 6, 114702. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.6.114702

 

B. Seyed-Aghazadeh, B. Benner, X. Gjokollari, Y. Modarres-Sadeghi (2021). An Experimental Investigation of Vortex-Induced Vibration of a Curved Flexible Cylinder. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 927, A21. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2021.725

 

B. Benner, D.W. Carlson, B. Seyed-Aghazadeh, Y. Modarres-Sadeghi (2019). Vortex-Induced Vibration of Symmetric Airfoils used in Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines. Journal of Fluids and Structures. 91, 102577. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2019.01.018

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