Principal Investigator –
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PI: Chunlei Liang, Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program Awardee, 2014.
Dr. Liang also directs a team for modeling and simulations of solar convection and solar dynamo.
Present Members –
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Sathsara Dias
Postdoc
July 2024 –
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Ibrahim Fetuga
Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering
August 2024 –
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Seyi Oluwadare
M.S./Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering, co-advised by Professor Craig Merrett
June 2024 – Present
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Peter Parrish
Undergraduate Research Student in Mechanical Engineering
Fall 2023 – Present
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Shawn Murphy
Undergraduate Research Assistant in Aerospace Engineering
Spring 2024 – present
Former Members –
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Stephen Monroe,
Master’s Student, Fall 2022 – Spring 2024.
MS Thesis: URANS and LES Studies of Turbulent Flows in an ONR Waterjet Pump using Unstructured Grids with Sliding Mesh Interfaces.
Current Job: Computational Engineer, NSWC Carderock Division
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Drew Safford, Master’s Student, Fall 2020-Spring 2023
M.S. Thesis: Unsteady Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes Simulations of A Ducted Wind Turbine
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Chi Ding, Master’s Student, Fall 2019-Spring 2021
M.S. Thesis: Large Eddy Simulations of A Ducted Wind Turbine, co-advised by Prof. Ken Visser
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Kuangxu “Scott” Chen, Master’s Student, Fall 2018-Spring 2020
M.S. Thesis: A 3D Parallel High-Order Solver With Curved Local Mesh Refinement for Predicting Arterial Flow Through Varied Degrees of Stenoses
Current Job: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Engineering Physics, Shenzhen Tech University
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Dr. Christopher Cox, Ph.D. Dissertation, The George Washington University (2018), co-advised by Professor Mike Plesniak.
He is currently employed by Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
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Dr. Andrew DeJong, Ph.D. Dissertation, The George Washington University (2015).
He is currently employed by the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division (NSWCCD).
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Todd Dillon, BS, The George Washington University (2014).
He is currently employed by Lockheed Martin.