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TFSA Conference 2025
Wednesday, February 26, and Thursday, February 27, 2025
Mackenzie Room, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center, Room 300
475 Via Ortega 3rd Floor, Stanford, CA 94305
Wednesday | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Check-In: Light Lunch and Poster Session |
| 13:00 - 13:15 | Welcome and Introduction Prof. Beverley McKeon |
| 13:15 - 15:00 | Session 1 - Reacting, High-Speed and Non-Equilibrium Flows Particle-laden reacting flows: climate, energy and catalysis Prof. Adam Boies, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering High speed jet aeroacoustics Olivia Grace Martin, PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering Measurements of electronically-excited atomic oxygen in the Caltech T5 shock tunnel via diode laser absorption spectroscopy Tal Schwartz, PhD Student in Aeronautics and Astronautics Shock tube ARAS measurements of excited-state N atoms in shock-heated 5100-6400K N2-Argon mixtures Zev Granowitz, PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering |
| 15:00 - 15:45 | Refreshments and Poster Session MS and PhD Students Welcome |
| 15:45 - 17:30 | Session II - Fundamentals : Mixing, Simulation and Experiments From the Micro- to Large-Scales A novel method of trapping and imaging individual DNA molecules Prof. Juan Santiago, Charles Lee Powell Foundation Professor in Mechanical Engineering Effect of particle mixing and settling on charge transport in a flow-electrode cell Dr. Soumyadeep Paul, Postdoctoral Scholar in Mechanical Engineering Importance of nonlocality in finite-atwood rayleigh-taylor mixing Dana Lynn Ona-Lansigan Lavacot, PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering Towards high resolution simulation of multiphase and dense gas phenomena Zoe Barbeau, PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering Observations and modeling of very low wavenumbers to wall pressure and wall shear stress in high Reynolds number zero pressure gradient turbulent boundary layers Dr. Facundo Cabrera-Booman, CTR Postdoctoral Fellow |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Reception: Appetizers and Drinks |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Dinner |
Thursday | |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Check-In: Light Breakfast |
| 08:30 - 10:05 | Session III - Large Eddy Simulation, Environmental and Other Complex Flows LES of urban flows Prof. Catherine Gorle, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Predicting turbulence structure In street-canyon flows using deep generative modeling Dr. Tomek Jaroslawski, CTR Postdoctoral Fellow Wall-modeled LES of heat transfer from iced surfaces Dr. Federico Zabaleta, CTR Postdoctoral Fellow Slip wall models for LES of complex separated flows Michael Whitmore, PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering |
| 10:05 - 10:45 | Refreshments and Poster Session MS and PhD Students Welcome |
| 10:45 - 12:30 | Session IV - Integrated Simulations using Exascale Multiphysics Ensembles (PSAAP Program) The PSAAP project at Stanford: multiphysics exascale simulations, data science and uncertainty quantification Prof. Gianluca Iaccarino, Robert Bosch Chair and Professor in Mechanical Engineering Modeling compressible multiphase flows Henry Collis, PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering A mass-conserving contact line treatment for second-order conservative phase field methods Reed Brown, PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering Learning unsteady trajectories in a latent space for studying ignition in rocket combustors Dr. Tony Zahtila, CTR Postdoctoral Fellow |
| 12:30 - 13:15 | Lunch |
| 13:15 - 15:00 | Session V - Machine Learning and Data-Driven Techniques Graph neural networks for accelerator physics at SLAC Prof. Eric Darve, Director, Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME) and Professor of Mechanical Engineering Towards the identification of digital twin: combining experimental and computational schlieren images for latent space analysis Tiffany Fan, PhD Student in the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME) Bi-fidelity approximation of stochastic, multi-modal data Dr. Murray Cutforth, Physical Sciences Research Scientist in Mechanical Engineering Dataset construction and characterization for learning automotive aerodynamics Dr. Mark Benjamin, Former PhD Student in Mechanical Engineering |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Close |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Lab Tours (Optional) |
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Affiliates Dinner at the Stanford Faculty Club (Invitation only) |