Engineering Mechanics Corporation of Columbus
Ms. Elizabeth Kurth
Researcher
E-mail: ekurth@emc-sq.com
614-459-3200 ext 225
Education

M.S., Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (2006)
B.S., Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, The Ohio State University (2004)

Professional Interests

  • Fluid Dynamics/Turbulence
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Lagrangian Statistics


Professional Experiences

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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