People

Graduate Students

Michael Emory


  • PhD Candidate Mechanical Engineering
  • Mike is working on numerical simulation of hypersonic air-breathing vehicles focusing on both turbulence and combustion modeling. He is focused on developing a new framework to study structural (epistemic) uncertainties induced by assumptions in the turbulence models.

Per Pettersson


  • PhD Candidate ICME
  • For his research Per is developing numerical algortihms to study hyperbolic PDE problems. He is using Stochastic Galerkin methods to capture uncertainties in the specification of the boundary conditions with applications to two-phase flows.

Gary Tang


  • PhD Candidate Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Gary's interest is in methods to study uncertainty using optimization. He is focused on the Compressed Sensing paradigm with application to wind turbine studies. He has also worked on global sensitivity and approaches to propagate interval-type uncertainties.

Akshay Mittal


  • PhD Candidate ICME
  • Akshay is studying uncertainty propagation in multi-physics problems. He has developed a framework to efficiently glueing together different intrusive/non-intrusive methods. This work is applied to heat trasnfer and reaction/diffusion-type problems.

Saman Ghili


  • PhD Candidate ICME
  • Saman works on low-rank separated representations, a promising approach to handle computational models affected by large number of uncertainties. He is focused on the study of the uncertainty introduced in reactive flows by imprecise specification of the reaction rates.

Sungmin Ryu


  • PhD Candidate ME
  • Sungmin's research is focused on high-fidelity simulations or turbulent flows. He has studied transition in high speed flows, and is currently focusing on computations of wing-body junctions with the objective to assess the accuracy of RANS-type turbulence models.

Alumni - Graduated Students

Qiqi Wang


  • PhD ICME 2008 (co-advised with P. Moin)
  • Assistant Professor, MIT
  • "Doctoral Thesis"
  • For his thesis Qiqi worked on adjoints methods for unsteady fluid dynamics problems, creating a new algortihm for optimal checkpointing. He also introduced a new approximation framework based on rational functions.

Seongwon Kang


  • PhD ME 2008 (co-advised with P. Moin)
  • Assistant Professor, Sogang University, South Korea
  • "Doctoral Thesis"
  • Seongwon worked on the Immersed Boundary method focusing on accurate (DNS/LES) simulations of turbulent flows with applications to acoustics and heat transfer. He developed a novel approach to handle multi-material problems.

Paul Constantine


  • PhD ICME 2009
  • von Neumann Fellow, Sandia National Lab
  • "Doctoral Thesis"
  • Paul's research was inspired by spectral methods used in uncertainty quantification. He developed an adaptive approach to increase their accuracy and also worked on hybrid approaches for uncertain heat transfer problems.

David Richter


  • PhD ME 2009 (co-advised with E.S.G. Shaqfeh)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow at NCAR
  • "Doctoral Thesis"
  • The study of complex flows in the presence of non-Newtonian effects has been the focus on David's research work. He has developed and implemented rheological models for studying the effect of polymers in the wake of a cylinder.

Tonkid Chantrasmi


  • PhD ME 2010
  • Assistant Professor, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok Thailand
  • "Doctoral Thesis"
  • Tonkid has developed a Pade approximation method to propagate uncertainty through systems that display strong non-linearirites. This new method has been applied to high-speed fluid flow problems dominated by shock waves.

John Axerio-Cilies


  • PhD ME 2012
  • "Doctoral Thesis (DRAFT)"
  • John worked on large scale simulations of the flow in and around tire/brake assemblies used Formula 1. He also performed optimization under uncertainty of the brake cooling duct using 1000s of full scale simulations which included uncertainties in the tire geometry.

David Philips


  • PhD ME 2012
  • "Doctoral Thesis (DRAFT)"
  • For his thesis David focused on dispersion simulations in urban environments. He worked on both RANS closures by introducing a novel anisotropic model and on LES simulations to study the details of the dispersion plume in the presence of urban-type roughness.

Post Doctoral Fellows

Jeroen Witteveen


  • Algortihms for efficient uncertainty quantification
  • Personal Site

Catherine Gorle


  • Modeling of turbulent mixing using LES and RANS, uncertainty quantification

Jerome Dombard


  • LES simulations of swirling flows, multiphase flows, uncertainty quantification

Alumni - Post Doctoral Fellows

Alireza Doostan


  • Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Bounder

Rene Pecnik


  • Assistant Professor, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands

Olaf Marxen


  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Von Karman Institute for Fluid Mechanics, Belgium,

Seonghyeon Hahn


  • Principal Engineer, VESTAS Wind Systems, Denmark