I received my PhD in May 2023 under the supervision of Professor Krishnan Mahesh at the University of Minnesota. The focus of my research is the insight that can be extracted from direct numerical simulation (DNS) and large-eddy simulation (LES) of highly complex turbulent flows, including complex turbulent boundary layers and jets in crossflow. I am currently the Group Leader for Multiscale Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) at the Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering (RCPE) in Graz, Austria, where I was previously a Senior Scientist working on the development of a boundary element method (BEM) for small-scale droplets.
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Education
PhD in Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics, University of Minnesota, 2023
- Thesis: High-fidelity unstructured overset simulation of complex turbulent flows
- Adviser: Professor Krishnan Mahesh
MS in Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics, University of Minnesota, 2020
BAEM in Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics, University of Minnesota, 2018
- Minors: Math, Astrophysics
Service
Co-organizer of an international workshop at the Banff International Research Station: Particulates across Scales: Mathematical Modeling, Computation, and Applications
Awards
John A. & Jane Dunning Copper Fellowship for Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics, 2019
Donald & Shirley Gorence Scholarship, 2018
Robert H. & Marjorie F. Jewitt Fund Scholarship, 2017
Experience
Group Leader for Multiscale CFD (2025 - Present) and Senior Scientist (2023 - Present)
Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering (RCPE)
- Led the simulation strategy development for an EU Horizon 2020 project.
- Coded a boundary element method from scratch to resolve sub-Kolmogorov-scale droplet breakup.
- Implemented an ethanol-water mixture model in OpenFOAM to simulate impingement jet mixing.
Graduate Research Assistant (2018 - 2023)
Professor Krishnan Mahesh, University of Minnesota
- Large-scale (>10000 processor) large-eddy simulations (LES) and direct numerical simulations (DNS) of complex turbulent flows.
- LES of axisymmetric turbulent boundary layers
- LES of appended bodies and junction flows
- DNS of jets in cross-flow and synthetic jets
Undergraduate Research Assistant (2016 - 2017)
Professor Ellen Longmire, University of Minnesota
- Particle lift-off and tracking in a turbulent boundary layer
- Development of wax-iron oxide spheres with controllable density and magnetic release system
- MATLAB image processing to characterize coefficient of restitution versus Stokes number relationship
- Particle image velocimetry
Chief Engineer (2017 - 2018) and Aerodynamics Designer (2014 - 2019)
University of Minnesota Formula SAE
- Chief engineer of a team of 70 students
- Programmed MATLAB graphical user interface to parameterize multi-element wing profiles
- Automated large-scale ANSYS CFX simulations at the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute