CRG Team Members
CRG Team Members
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Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Jesse Capecelatro, PhD
Jesse Capecelatro, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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
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). 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.
Postdoctoral researchers
Postdoctoral researchers
Dr. Abhilash Reddy Malipeddi
Dr. Abhilash Reddy Malipeddi
Abhilash joined CRG in 2021. He received a Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from George Washington University, a M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. His research is focused on complex fluids, biological fluid dynamics, rheology, emulsions & suspensions.
Contact: absh@umich.edu | website
Dr. Deepak Mangal
Dr. Deepak Mangal
Deepak joined CRG in Dec 2024. He earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston in 2021, and completed his B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering at IIT Kharagpur in 2012. Before joining the group, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University. His research is focused on transport in porous media, rheology and structure of different colloidal fluids and using scientific machine learning in these areas.
Contact: dmangal@umich.edu
Dr. Ana Carolina Borges Silva
Dr. Ana Carolina Borges Silva
Ana joined CRG in 2025. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of SĂŁo Paulo, holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of SĂŁo Carlos, an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Uberlandia, and a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Uberaba. Her research focuses on particle-resolved simulations with an emphasis on catalytic beds, particle distribution, and renewable energies.
Contact: borgesana@usp.br
Doctoral students
Doctoral students
Meet Patel
Meet Patel
Meet joined CRG in 2019. He received a M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2019 and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Gujarat Technological University in 2017. His research is focused on high-speed flows, plume-surface interactions, smooth particle hydrodynamics, and pressure reconstruction.
Contact: meetm@umich.edu
Archana Sridhar
Archana Sridhar
Archana joined CRG in 2020. She received a M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2021 and a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from R.V. College of Engineering in 2019. Her research is focused on shock-particle interactions, particle-resolved simulations, and turbulence modeling.
Contact: arsridha@umich.edu
Max Herzog
Max Herzog
Max joined CRG in 2021. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University in 2020. His research is focused on particle-laden flows, stochastic modeling, deposition and adhesion.
Contact: maxzog@umich.edu
Rebecca Grawe
Rebecca Grawe
Rebecca joined CRG in 2021. She received a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University in 2016 and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University in 2013. Her research is focused on adsorption, particle-laden flows, pseudo-turbulence, and carbon capture.
Contact: rgrawe@umich.edu
Sathvik Bhat
Sathvik Bhat
Sathvik joined CRG in 2022. He received a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University in 2017. His research is focused on CFD-DEM, coarse-grain modeling, and fluidization.
Contact: sathvikb@umich.edu
Ashray Mohit
Ashray Mohit
Ashray joined CRG in 2023. He received a B.S in Aerospace Engineering from SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai in 2020 and a M.S in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2023. His research is focused on turbulent combustion, LES, and machine learning.
Contact: ashraym@umich.edu
Masters Students
Masters Students
Jaehyeon Song
Jaehyeon Song
Jaehyeon joined CRG in 2024. He received a B.S in Mechanical Engineering from University of Ulsan in 2024. His research is fucused on biological particle-laden flow, immersed boundary methods, hemodynamics.
Contact: jaehyn@umich.edu
Alumni
Alumni
Postdocs
Postdocs
Dr. Jack Wakefield. Currently a Research Physical Scientist at the National Energy Technology Lab.
Dr. Konstantinos (Costis) Zinelis. Currently a postdoc at MIT.
Dr. Mehdi Khalloufi. First employment: Senior Research Specialist at Dow Chemical.
Dr. Pedram Pakseresht. First employment: Senior Research Specialist at Dow Chemical. Currently Assistant Professor at Weber State University.
Dr. Aaron Lattanzi. First employment: Project Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
PhD students
PhD students
Dr. Ali Kord. Graduation date: 01/2022. Thesis: Adjoint-Based Sensitivity and Optimization of Turbulent Reacting Flows (PDF). First employment: Research Scientist at Corning
Dr. 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.
Dr. Sarah Beetham. Graduation date: 08/2021. Thesis: Turbulence Modeling of Strongly-Coupled Particle-Laden Flows (PDF). First employment: Assistant Professor at Oakland University.Â
Dr. 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
MS students
Owen Faulkner. Graduation date: 2025. First employment: Blue Origin (Aerospace Systems Engineer).
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
Undergraduate students
Kalvin Monroe. Graduation date: 05/2021. First employment: PhD student at University of Colorado Boulder.
Positions
Positions
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.
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