Dr. Naseem Ansari (2009-2012)
Dissertation: Filtered Density Function for Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Reacting Flows on Unstructured Meshes.
Current Position: Research Scientist, ANSYS Inc., Pittsburgh, PA.
Dr. Virgil Adumitroaie (1992-1997)
Dissertation: Quasi-Explicit Algebraic Turbulence Closures in Compressible Reacting Flows.
Current Position: Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, Pasadena, CA.
Dr. Paul J. Colucci (1993-1998)
Dissertation: Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Reactive Flows: Stochastic Representation of the Subgrid Scale Scalar Fluctuations.
Current Position: Research Engineer at Pratt & Whitney, East Hartford, CT.
Dr. Tomasz G. Drozda (2002-2005)
Dissertation: Implementation of LES/SFMDF for Prediction of Non-Premixed Turbulent Flames.
Current Position: Research Scientist, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA.
Dr. Steven H. Frankel (1990-1993)
Dissertation: Probabilistic and Deterministic Description of Turbulent Flows with Nonpremixed Reactants, June 1993.
Current Position: Professor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
ONR Young Investigator Award.
Second Prize, Graduate Technical Paper Competition of AIAA Northeast Regional Student Conference, UB. Title of paper: “Probabilistic and Deterministic Description of Turbulent Flows with Nonpremixed Reactants,” April 1992.
Dr. Sean C. Garrick (1994-1998)
Dissertation: Large Eddy Simulations of Turbulent Reacting Jets.
Current Position: Nelson Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN.
ONR/HBECC Faculty Fellowship Award.
Dr. Laurent Y.M. Gicquel (1997-2001)
Dissertation: Velocity Filtered Density Function for Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flows.
Current Position: Research Scientist, CERFACS: Centre Europeen de Recherche et de Formation Avanc'ee en Calcul Scientifique, Toulouse, France.
Dr. Farhad A. Jaberi (1992-1996)
Dissertation: Mathematical Modeling and Computational Analysis of Turbulent Mixing and Reacting Systems.
Current Position: Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation.
ONR Young Investigator Award.
Dr. Sunil James (1994-1998)
Dissertation: Realistic Chemistry in Large Scale Numerical Simulations of Methane Diffusion Flames.
Current Position: Program Manager, Honeywell Aerospace, Phoenix, AZ.
Dr. Ling Miao (2014-2018)
Dissertation: Filter and Grid Resolution Requirements in LES via a Discontinuous Galerkin Solver.
Current Position: Exa - Computational physicist engineer, Dassault Systemes, Waltham, MA.
Dr. Richard S. Miller (1993-1995)
Dissertation: Passive Scalar, Magnetic Field, and Solid Particle Transport in Homogeneous Turbulence.
Current Position: Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC.
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation.
Abe M. Zarem Award for Distinguished Achievement in Aeronautics . This award is in relation to the paper entitled: “The Manifestation of Eddy Shocklets and Laminar Diffusion Flamelets in a Shear Layer,” AIAA Student Journal , 31 (4), 12-22, 1994. AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting in Reno, NV in January 1994.
ICAS McCarthy Award of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS). This ward is in relation to the Invited ICAS Paper and Lecture: “The Manifestation of Eddy Shocklets and Laminar Diffusion Flamelets in a Shear Layer,” ICAS Paper 94-10.1.4 , 19th Congress of ICAS held at Anaheim, CA in September 1994. Ranked First in a group of 28 contestants representing 11 countries with leading aerospace programs.
Dr. Cristian R. Nastase (1998-2004)
Dissertation: Direct Spectral/HP Element Simulation of Piloted Jet Non-premixed Flames.
Current Position: Research Engineer, Rolls-Royce Corp., Indianapolis, IN.
Dr. Mehdi B. Nik (2007-2012)
Dissertation: VS-FMDF and EPVS-FMDF for Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flows.
Dr. Arash Nouri (2014-2017)
Dissertation: Self-Contained Filtered Density Function.
Current Position: Research Scientist, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Dr. Collin C. Otis (2010-2013)
Dissertation: High-Fidelity Simulation of Compressible Flows for Hypersonic Propulsion Applications.
Current Position: Data Analyst, Target Corp., Pittsburgh, PA.
Dr. Patrick H. Pisciuneri (2008-2013)
Dissertation: An Irregularly Portioned FDF Solver for Turbulent Flow Simulation.
Current Position: Data Analyst, Target Corp., Pittsburgh, PA.
Dr. Shervin Sammak (2013-2016)
Dissertation: A Hybrid Discontinuous Galerkin-Monte Carlo Simulator for Filtered Density Function.
Current Position: Research Assistant Professor, Center for Research Computing, University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. M. Reza H. Sheikhi (2002-2005)
Dissertation: Joint Velocity-Scalar Filtered Density Function for Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Reacting Flows.
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University.
Dr. Craig J. Steinberger (1992-1997)
Dissertation: Computational Analysis of Some Physical Issues in Nonpremixed and Premixed Turbulent Flames.
Current Position: Systems Engineer, Xerox Corp., Rochester, NY.
First Prize, Graduate Technical Paper Competition of AIAA Northeast Regional Student Conference, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. Title of paper: “Model Free Simulations of a High Speed Reacting Mixing Layer,” AIAA Paper 92-0257, April 1991.
Dr. Krisda Tapracharoen (2015-2018)
Dissertation: A Hybrid Filtered Density Function Spectral-Element Large Eddy Simulator.
Current Position: Research Scientist, National Metal and Materials Technology Center, Bangkok, Thailand.
Dr. S. L. Yilmaz (2003-2008)
Dissertation: RANS/PDF and LES/FDF for Prediction of Turbulent Premixed Flames.
Current Position: Senior Software Engineer, MathWorks, Natick, MA.
Dr. Farhad A. Jaberi (1996-1999)
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from UB.
Current Position: Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation.
ONR Young Investigator Award.
Dr. Tail-Lun Jiang (1990-1991)
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from SUNY at Stony Brook.
Current Position: Professor of Engineering in Taiwan.
Dr. Cyrus K. Madnia (1989-1994)
Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan.
Current Position: Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UB.
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation.
Dr. Farzad Mashayek (1994-1997)
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from UB.
Current Position: Professor and Department Head of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation.
ONR Young Investigator Award.
Dr. Mehdi B. Nik (2012-2014)
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Pitt.
Dr. M. Reza H. Sheikhi (2005-2009)
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Pitt.
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University.
Dr. Francine Battaglia (1991-1992)
Thesis: Direct Simulations of a Mixing Layer by a Lagrangian Transport Element Method.
Current Position: Professor and Director, Computational Research for Energy Systems and Transport (CREST) Laboratory, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo, NY.
First Prize, Graduate Technical Presentation Competition of AIAA Northeast Regional Student Conference, UB. Title of presentation: “Direct Lagrangian Simulations of a Mixing Layer by the Transport Element Method,” April 1992.
Paul J. Colucci (1991-1993)
Thesis: Linear Stability Analysis of Density Stratified Parallel Shear Flows.
First Prize, Graduate Technical Paper Competition of AIAA Northeast Regional Student Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Title of paper: “Linear Stability Analysis of Density Stratified Parallel Shear Flows,” AIAA Paper 94-0011 , April 1993.
Dr. Tomasz G. Drozda (1999-2002)
Thesis: Consistency Assessment of Velocity-Scalar Filtered Density Function for Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flows.
Second Prize, Graduate Technical Paper Competition of AIAA Northeast Regional Student Conference, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. Title of paper: “A Hybrid Stochastic-Deterministic Methodology for Large Eddy Simulation of Scalar Mixing and Reaction in Turbulent Flows,” April, 2002.
Dr. Sean C. Garrick (1992-1994)
Thesis: Affordable Computation of Turbulent Reactive Flows by Large Eddy Simulations.
First Prize, Graduate Technical Paper Competition of AIAA Northeast Regional Student Conference, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY. Title of paper: “Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Reactive Flows,” AIAA Paper 95-0010, April 1994.
Dr. Laurent Y.M. Gicquel (1994-1997)
Thesis: Explicit Algebraic Turbulence Closures in LARCK.
Third Prize, Graduate Technical Paper Competition of AIAA Northeast Regional Student Conference, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. Title of paper: “Algebraic Turbulent Closures for Affordable Prediction of Complex Turbulent Flows,” April 1996.
Dr. Sunil James (1992-1994)
Thesis: Direct Numerical Simulation of Vortex Rings.
Second Prize, Graduate Technical Paper Competition of AIAA Northeast Regional Student Conference, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, NY. Title of paper: “Direct Numerical Simulation of a Laminar Vortex Ring,” April 1995.
Dr. Richard S. Miller (1992-1993)
Thesis: Structure of a Reacting Turbulent Mixing Layer.
First Prize, Graduate Technical Paper Competition of AIAA Northeast Regional Student Conference, UB. Title of paper: “The Manifestation of Eddy Shocklets and Laminar Diffusion Flamelets in a Shear Layer,” AIAA Paper 93-0011 , April 1992.
Dr. Mahdi Mohebbi (2005-2007)
Thesis: Large Eddy Simulation of NASA LaRC Coaxial He-O2/air Jet.
Dr. Collin C. Otis (2008-2010)
Thesis: Comparative Assessment of Adaptive-Stencil Finite Difference Schemes for Hyperbolic Equations with Jump Discontinuities.
AIAA Gordon C. Oates Airbreathing Propulsion Graduate Award (2010)
NASA Aeronautics Graduate Scholarship (2008)
Dr. Patrick H. Pisciuneri (2006-2008)
Thesis: Large Eddy Simulation of a Turbulent Nonpremixed Jet Flame using a Finite-Rate Chemistry Model.
George J. Sabini (1992-1995)
Thesis: Statistical Modeling of the Fluctuations of Reacting Scalars in Non-Premixed Isothermal Turbulent Flows.
Third Prize co-winner, Technical Paper Competition of AIAA Northeast Regional Student Conference, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY. Title of the co-authored paper: “Modeling of Fluctuations and the Frequency-Spectra of Reacting Scalar in Turbulent Scalar Mixing Layers,” April 1994.
Geoffrey S. Shieh (1992-1994)
Thesis: Fluctuation-Correlations and the Frequency-Spectra of Reacting Scalars in a Turbulent Mixing Layer.
Third Prize co-winner, Graduate Technical Paper Competition of AIAA Northeast Regional Student Conference, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY. Title of the co-authored paper: “Modeling of Fluctuations and the Frequency-Spectra of Reacting Scalar in Turbulent Scalar Mixing Layers,” April 1994.
Dr. Craig J. Steinberger (1989-1991)
Thesis: Mixing and Non-Equilibrium Chemical Reaction in a Compressible Mixing Layer. Published as NASA Contractor Report 187084 (1991).
Thomas J. Vidoni (1990-1992)
Thesis: Mixing Characteristics of a Compressible, Two-Dimensional Spatially Developing Planar Jet.