Education
M.S., Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (2006)
B.S., Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, The Ohio State University (2004)
Areas of Expertise
- Fluid Dynamics/Turbulence
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Lagrangian Statistics
Technical Qualifications
Fluid Mechanics/Turbulence
- Analyzed data of isotropic turbulence compiled from DNS to
determine relationships between entrophy, dissipation and
pseudo-dissipation. This relationship was used to identify the
contribution and impact of the strain rate and vorticity of a fluid
on the development of a turbulent flow.
- Developed post-processing codes to transform velocity and
velocity gradients into a local coordinate system based on the
vorticity vector and investigate the theory of particle trapping.
Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Developed several post-processing routines that could compute
correlations, frequency spectra and probability density functions
as well as the coordinate transformation.
- Part of a research team whose DNS code was used for
benchmarking on machines such as IBM's Blue Gene.
Lagrangian Statistics
- Specialized in computing statistics of turbulence in the
Lagrangian frame. Increased the database of Lagrangian data
available on the 20483 data set by three times making our research
group a leader in high Reynolds number data of Lagrangian data.
- Used Lagrangian statistical data to investigate the particle
trapping theory as well as investigate the relationship between
enstrophy and strain as a function of Reynolds number.
Professional Affiliations
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astonautics
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