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Jesse Capecelatro, CV Associate Professor, Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Education: Ph.D., Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, 2014 M.S., Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, 2012 M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, 2011 B.S., Mechanical Engineering, SUNY Binghamton, 2009 Contact: Office number: 2011 Automotive Lab Phone: (734) 936-2137

Bio-sketch:
Jesse Capecelatro is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan. His research group develops numerical methods and data-driven models for the prediction and optimization of "messy turbulent flows" (often multiphase and reacting). His current research projects are focused on modeling compressible two-phase flows, adjoint-based methods applied to turbulent combustion, heat and mass transport in turbulent gas-solid flows, and dust deposition in gas turbine engines.

Prior to joining Michigan in 2016, Dr. Capecelatro was a research scientist at the Center for Exascale Simulation of Plasma-coupled Combustion (XPACC) at the University of Illinois. He received a B.S. from SUNY Binghamton in 2009, a M.S. from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2011, and a Ph.D. from Cornell in 2014. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, and the ASME Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal Award.

Abhilash Reddy Malipeddi Website Education: Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The George Washington University M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India Research Focus: Complex Fluids, Biological Fluid Dynamics, Rheology, Emulsions & Suspensions Contact: absh@umich.edu

Jack Wakefield Education: Ph.D. in Applied Math, University of Michigan (2022) B.S. in Applied Math, Colorado School of Mines (2016) Research Focus: PDEs, stochastic models, particle-laden flow Contact: jwake@umich.edu

Konstantinos (Costis) Zinelis Education: Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK (2023) MRes in Molecular Science & Engineering, Imperial College London, UK (2018) MEng in Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece (2017) Research Focus: Computational rheology, viscoelastic interfacial flows, soft matter Contact: k.zinelis17@imperial.ac.uk

Meet Patel Education: M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan (2019) B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Gujarat Technological University (2017) Research Focus: High-speed two-phase flows, plume-surface interactions, smooth particle hydrodynamics, pressure reconstruction Contact: meetm@umich.edu

Archana Sridhar Education: M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan (2021) B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, R.V. College of Engineering (2019) Research Focus: High-speed particle-laden flows, sensitivity analysis Contact: arsridha@umich.edu

Max Herzog Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University (2020) Research Focus: Particle-laden flows, stochastic methods, model order reduction Contact: maxzog@umich.edu

Rebecca Grawe Education: M.S. in Chemical Engineering, Brigham Young University (2016) B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Brigham Young University (2013) Research Focus: Adsorption, particle-laden flow, carbon capture Contact: rgrawe@umich.edu

Sathvik Bhat Education: B.E. in Mechanical Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University (2017) Research Focus: Computational fluid dynamics, particle-laden flows, fluidization Contact: sathvikb@umich.edu

Ashray Mohit Education: B.S in Aerospace Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai (2020) M.S in Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (exp. 2023) Research Focus: Computational fluid dynamics, turbulent combustion, machine Learning Contact: ashraym@umich.edu

Luc Grasset (visiting student) Education: Preparatory class in Physics and technology, Livet School, Nantes (2021) Undergrad in Engineering and Applied Physics, ENS Paris-Saclay/Paris-Saclay University (2022) Master 1 of Mechanical Engineering, ENS Paris-Saclay/Paris-Saclay University (2023) Research Focus: Wall-modeled LES, turbulence, planetary science, geophysical fluid dynamics Contact: lucgrass@umich.edu

Postdocs Dr. Mehdi Khalloufi. Currently a Senior Research Specialist at Dow Chemical. Dr. Pedram Pakseresht. Currently a Senior Research Specialist at Dow Chemical. Dr. Aaron Lattanzi. Currently a Project Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. PhD Students Ali Kord. Graduation date: 01/2022. Thesis: Adjoint-Based Sensitivity and Optimization of Turbulent Reacting Flows (PDF). First employment: Research Scientist at Corning. Gregory Shallcross. Graduation date: 08/2021. Thesis: Modeling Particle-Laden Compressible Flows with an Application to Plume-Surface Interactions (PDF). First employment: Contamination Control Engineer at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Sarah Beetham. Graduation date: 08/2021. Thesis: Turbulence Modeling of Strongly-Coupled Particle-Laden Flows (PDF). First employment: Assistant Professor at Oakland University. Yuan Yao. Graduation date: 05/2021. Thesis: Transport and Deposition of Fine Particulates in Turbulence: Numerical Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification (PDF). First employment: Senior Research Specialist at Dow Chemical. MS Students Connor Boerman. Graduation date: 2022. First employment: Blue Origin (engine CFD team). Qingquan (Megan) Wang. Graduation date: 2019. First employment: PhD student at University of Southern California. Arun Ashok Rao. Graduation date: 2018. First employment: Convergence Science. Lei Guo. Graduation date: 2018. First employment: PhD student at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Undergraduate Students Kalvin Monroe. Graduation date: 05/2021. First employment: PhD student at University of Colorado Boulder.

To be eligible to join our lab, students must first be admitted into the Ph.D. program at the University of Michigan, typically in the graduate fields of Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering (though other fields will also be considered). Information on the Mechanical Engineering program can be found here. While interested candidates not yet admitted to the UM Ph.D. program are welcome to contact Prof. Capecelatro by email, note that an answer is unlikely due to the large number of solicitations.