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Jesse Capecelatro Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Education: Contact: Office number: 2011 Automotive Lab Phone: (734) 936-2137 Email: jcaps@umich.edu |
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Ali Kord PhD candidate Ali Kord is a 2nd-year PhD student. He holds a Bachelor’s (2012) and a Master’s (2015) degree in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Iran. He worked on drag reduction due to hairy attachments of bodies for his Bachelor’s thesis. He also worked on blood coagulation with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and parallelized his code with GPU for his Master’s degree. Now, he is working towards developing methods for control/optimization of mixing in variable density turbulent flows with the eventual goal of controlling/optimizing turbulent combustion. |
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Gregory Shallcross PhD candidate Awards: 2017 NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF); 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP) Gregory Shallcross is a 2nd-year PhD student. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia where he was involved in bio-inspiration research. His current research interests are in particle-laden turbulent flows and compressible multiphase flow modeling. He is currently developing methods to capture particle fluidization during interplanetary surface plume interactions, which pose serious problems during planetary landing. |
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Yuan Yao PhD candidate Yuan Yao is a 2nd-year PhD student. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology where he has conducted research on microfluid simulations. He also has experience on in-vivo turbulence simulation for drug deposition at UC Berkeley. Currently, he is working on developing efficient methods for computing long-range electrostatic forces in electrically-charged particle-laden flows, in addition to reduced-order modeling of droplet combustion. |
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Sarah Beetham PhD candidate Awards: 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP); 2016-2017 MICDE Fellowship Sarah Beetham is a 2nd-year PhD student. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan where she was involved in computational modeling of biological phenomenon related to solid mechanics. She also obtained an MFA in creative writing from the University of Southampton, UK, through support of the Roger M. Jones Fellowship. She spent 6 years in the automotive industry, working in powertrain calibration at General Motors and side impact airbag design at Nissan Technical Center. Her current research interests are in particle-laden turbulent flows and data-driven modeling. |
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Arun Ashok Rao MS student Arun Ashok Rao is a first year Masters student. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal. He has worked on the numerical estimation of quenching heat flux using Inverse Heat Transfer at Universitӓt Bremen. He is currently working on Euler-Lagrange models that can describe the erosion and pattern formation in large subaqueous sediment beds. |
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Lei Guo MS student Lei Guo is a first year Masters student. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Energy & Power Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University. His past research involved heat transfer of condensing and liquid metal flow. He is currently working on numerical modeling of heat transfer in gas-solid turbulent flows. |
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Qingquan (Megan) Wang MS student Qingquan (Megan) Wang is a first year Masters student. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Mechanics and Astronautics from the University of Wisconsin - Madison where she was involved in nuclear software development research. Her current research interest is GPU accelerated fluid particle simulation. She is currently researching on developing parallelization of particle and fluid computation in Euler-Lagrangian frame with OpenACC directives on heterogeneous cores. |
Undergraduate students at Michigan interested in research related to fluid dynamics and high-performance computing can email me about available positions. |
No funded post-doctoral positions are available at the moment, although applications are always welcome. |
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 Engineering (though other
fields will also be considered). Information on the Mechanical
Engineering program can be found here. Note that the admission deadlines are typically in late December, and that applications outside of the regular cycle are not considered for admission.
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 sollicitations. |