Lab Members
Anirudh Lakshmi Narasimha Prasad, PhD Scholar
Anirudh is a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at the FSU College of Engineering. He has a Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering from Arizona State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from PES University, Bangalore. He has previously worked on projects in various domains including Supersonic flows, Combustion and Propulsion. He has also worked as a Research intern at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland as a part of a student exchange program initiative in 2017. He is currently focusing his efforts on characterizing flow fields and noise levels from supersonic flows exiting non-axisymmetric nozzles using high-fidelity large eddy simulations.
Gargi Dashora, PhD Scholar
Gargi is a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at FSU College of Engineering. She had completed her master’s degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Missouri, Columbia and her bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from MITS Gwalior, India. Prior to coming to FSU, she worked as an R&D Engineer II at Becton and Dickinson. She worked on shock-driven multiphase instabilities modeling and simulation during her master’s research (2017-2018) and CO2-based Brayton cycle during her internship at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India in 2015. She was also a part of Industrial Assessment Centre led by the Department of Energy to audit energy evaluation and presented recommendations for energy savings for various industries. Her current research involves high fidelity computational analysis of supersonic inlets, study of shock boundary layer interactions inside inlets, and their effects on the engine's efficiency.
Jordan Wilkerson, PhD Scholar
Jordan is a PhD student in the Mechanical Engineering department at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. He received his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Florida A&M University. His current research topic is the study of compressibility effects on crossflow separation and vortex asymmetry on slender axisymmetric bodies at high angles of incidence.
Nitin Singh, PhD Scholar
Nitin Singh is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at the FSU College of Engineering. He holds a master's in Aerospace Engineering from the esteemed Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, and a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar, India. With a profound background in Mechanical Engineering, he has garnered valuable experience through his previous work focusing on the design of wind turbine blades. At present, Nitin is at the forefront of cutting-edge research, delving into the complexities of separation bubble dynamics over airfoils.
Niyati Chokshi, PhD Scholar
Niyati is a Ph.D. student in the Mechanical Engineering department at the FSU College of Engineering. She received her master’s in Aerospace Engineering from California State University, Long Beach. She worked and interned at Regent Craft as a Hydrodynamics Intern and at Hexagon as an Advanced Physics Intern specializing in Cradle CFD. In her spare time, she likes to kayak, hike, and spend time as a CAPCOM for astronaut analog missions. Before coming to FSU, she served as President of the Women of Aerospace organization for three years. Her current research is on shock-wave/boundary-layer interactions with three-dimensional non-homogeneous effects.
Sarath K. P., Post-Doctoral Scholar
Sarath is a postdoctoral researcher at CASL, Department of Mechanical Engineering, FSU College of Engineering. He earned his PhD from the Aerospace Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology. His thesis focused on the DNS of vortical flow structures developed in the wake of a body due to a transitional boundary layer developed from spatio-temporal velocity field variations. His current research pertains to turbulent boundry layer control using surface texturing, and hypersonic boundary layer transition.
Alumni
Arrah Calvin, PhD Scholar
Arrah was a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at FSU College of Engineering and completed his bachelor's at Western Kentucky University where he worked at the local Center for Energy Systems. Here at FSU, he hopes to pursue my academic dreams to help others with the knowledge. His current research involves evaluation of supersonic inlets at design and off-design conditions, utilizing theoretical and simulation-based approaches. Hobbies that define him would be Music, Table-Top Games, and Sports. Arrah enjoys playing the Trombone, especially Jazz, and marching bands.
Kunal Kanawade, PhD Scholar
Kunal was a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at FSU College of Engineering. Kunal received his master's degree in Aerospace Engineering from Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), the Netherlands and did his bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from BITS-Pilani, India. He has previously worked on turbulent heat flux modeling, flow & heat transfer modeling and multiphase flow domains. Also, he had the opportunity to intern at Nuclear research at Consultancy Group to work on natural convection flows. He worked on hypersonic flows where he studied the evolution of instabilities and their dominant modes.
Aswathy Nair K., Post-Doctoral Scholar
Aswathy was a postdoctoral researcher at CASL, Mechanical Engineering, FSU College of Engineering. She has an MS and PhD dual degree from the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai, India and a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Calicut, Kerala, India. For her PhD, she developed a novel linear stability solver based on the three-dimensional linearized Navier-Stokes equations to study the temporal and spatial stability of flows simultaneously. Earlier, for her MS, she worked on the experimental velocity characterization of the boundary layer flow over a porous laminated flat plate and explored its prospects in flow and separation control strategies. She also worked on optimizing the transition prediction methods as an intern at Airbus Group, Bangalore, India. At CASL, she worked on developing linear stability tools for the analysis of high-speed flows.