2024 TFSA Conference
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TFSA Conference 2024
Tuesday, February 27 & Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Mackenzie Room, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Building
For registration or questions, email Cat Hunter (hunterc@stanford.edu)
| DAY 1: Tuesday, February 27 | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Check-In |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Lab tours (optional) |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Light lunch |
| 13:00 - 13:15 | Welcome and Introduction Prof. Beverley McKeon |
| 13:15 - 14:15 | Session 1: Multi-Phase Modeling Overview of Research in Multiphase Flows Prof. Ali Mani Multiphase transport in electrochemical CO2 reduction cells: a simple model for complex catalyst structures Raj Balaji, PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering A robust and consistent numerical model for compressible multiphase flows Henry Collis, PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering |
| 14:15 - 15:15 | Session 2: Large Eddy Simulation Introduced by Prof. Parviz Moin Advances in Wall Modeling for Prediction of Smooth Body Separation in LES, with emphasis on Aircraft Systems Rahul Agrawal, PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering LES of Aircraft Icing Brett Bornhoft, PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering LES vs Wind Tunnels for the Analysis of Wind Loading on Low-rise Buildings Themistoklis Vargiemezis, PhD Student in Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Break |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Networking and Poster Session |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Seminar Session: The Fluid Mechanics of a new VAT Polymerization Process for Additive Manufacturing Prof. Eric Shaqfeh, Lester Levi Carter Professor of Chemical Engineering |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Conference Dinner at the Stanford Faculty Club |
| DAY 2: Wednesday, February 28 | |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Light breakfast |
| 08:30 - 09:30 | Session 3: Experiments and low-order modeling Introduced by Prof. Beverley McKeon Improved black-box variational inference for high-dimensional Bayesian inference Dr. Dhruv Patel, Postdoctoral Scholar, Mechanical Engineering Machine learning for inferring hidden variables in fluid dynamics Dr. Murray Cutforth, Physical Sciences Resarch Scientist, Mechanical Engineering Particle settling experiments Dr. Tomek Jaroslawski, Center for Turbulence Research Postdoctoral Fellow |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Session 4: Non-equilibrium gas dynamics Introduced by Dr. Chris Strand Laser-Based Sensing for Understanding Extreme Environments Dr. Christopher Strand, Senior Research Engineer, Mechanical Engineering Modeling of triple point shock interactions Albo Voci, PhD Student, Aeronautics and Astronautics Numerical study of transonic laminar shock buffet on the OALT25 airfoil Hang Song, PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering High-speed jet noise: Screech dynamics and mixer nozzle Olivia Martin, PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Break |
| 10:45 - 11:45 | Networking and Poster Session |
| 11:45 - 12:45 | Lunch |
| 12:45 - 13:45 | Session 5: Integrated Simulations using Exascale Multiphysics Ensembles (PSAAP Program) Introduction by Prof. Sanjiva Lele Laser-induced ignition in GMRC Dr. Donatella Passiatore, Physical Sciences Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering Toward ignition modeling in LMRC Dr. Shahab Mirjalili, Physical Sciences Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering ML ignition modeling Wai Tong Chung, PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering |
| 13:45 - 13:50 | Mini break |
| 13:50 - 14:30 | Session 6: Affiliates Program Program Overview Prof. Beverley McKeon Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) Prof. Parviz Moin Introduction to Stanford High Performance Computing Center Steve Jones (HPC Director) and Caetano Melone (HPC Senior Software Engineer) |
| 14:30 - 15:15 | Panel Discussion |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Close |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Networking Reception with Mechanical Engineering PhD and Master's Students |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Affiliates Dinner (Invitation only) |