Presentations

Wednesday February 25

Session I - Large Eddy Simulation 

Large-eddy simulation of aircraft-grid-resolution, Reynolds number and wind-tunnel effects
Prof. Parviz Moin, Franklin P. and Caroline M. Johnson Professor of Mechanical Engineering 

 Aircraft icing: From drop-resolved simulations to large-scale engineering computations
Lucy Brown, PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering 

Development and control of Görtler vortices in a serpentine diffuser
Dr. Akhil Nekkanti, CTR Postdoctoral Fellow 

High-fidelity simulations and camera observations of contrail formation
Dr. Tania Ferreira, CTR Postdoctoral Fellow  

Session II - High-speed, Reacting and Multiphase Flows

Explosive Encounters: Shock-droplet interactions and multiphase detonations
Prof. Hai Wang, Silas Palmer Professor of Mechanical Engineering

New insights into high-temperature flame dynamics of sustainable fuels 
Lauren Simitz, PhD Student of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Hydrogen sensing in hydrogen/fuel blends via collision-induced infrared absorption 
Andrew Klingberg, PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering  

Reduced order model for chemistry in high-speed flow simulations using Fourier Neural Operators 
Federico Rios Tascon, PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering  

A stirred-tank flow-electrode reactor for lithium extraction from brines 
Yousif Alkhulaifi, PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering  

Thursday February 26

Session III - Turbulence, Acoustics and Data-Driven Methods

Interplay between Turbulence and Acoustics
Prof. Sanjiva Lele, Edward C. Wells Professor of the School of Engineering  

Computational study of high-speed jet acoustics
Olivia Martin, PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering  

Multi-fidelity data ensembles of liquid-oxygen gaseous-methane rocket ignition
Albo Voci, PhD Student in Aeronautics and Astronautics 

Benchmarking data-driven Reynolds stress closures: Exposing the generalization gap toward foundational turbulence models
Nikita Kozak, PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering  

Session IV - Radiation, Nucleation and Modeling

High-power lasers and laser-driven particle and radiation sources for advanced diagnostics
Prof. Matthew Edwards, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Soot-liquid interaction: Implications for particle transport and radiative properties
Dr. Cyprien Jourdain, Postdoctoral Fellow in Mechanical Engineering

SpectraQuery: A hybrid retrieval-augmented conversational assistant for battery science
Sreya Vangara, PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering 

End-to-end Uncertainty Quantification for CO2 injection-induced seismicity via multifidelity estimators and data-driven approaches
Dr. Soren Taverniers, Physical Science Research Scientist in Mechanical Engineering  

Session V - Experiments and Reduced Order Modeling

Machine-learning-enabled experiments and new (mobile) capabilities
Prof. Beverley McKeon, Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Nonlinear spectral model reduction of chaotic flows from data
Dr. Balint Kaszas, CTR Postdoctoral Fellow 

Electrokinetic microfluidic devices for nucleic acid analysis
Qi Jiang, PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering 

Thermal footprint of rough walls under step change in roughness
Dr. Shilpa Vijay, CTR Postdoctoral Fellow