Lab Members

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Gargi Dashora, PhD Scholar

Gargi is a PhD student in Mechanical and Aerospace 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.

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Jordan Wilkerson, PhD Scholar

Jordan is a PhD student in the Mechanical and Aerospace 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.

ns23u@fsu.edu

Nitin Singh, PhD Scholar

Nitin Singh is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical and Aerospace 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.

nc23bd@fsu.edu

Niyati Chokshi, PhD Scholar

Niyati is a Ph.D. student in the Mechanical and Aerospace 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.

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Asmita Talukder, PhD Scholar

Asmita is a PhD student in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology. For her undergraduate thesis, she worked on computational fluid dynamics on turbulent flow to analyse the accuracy of flow measurement through an orifice plate. She also has prior research experience on heat transfer modelling on MHD mixed convection. Previously, she had internship experience at North-West Power Generation Company Limited and Walton Group of Industries. Her current research focuses on gust interaction on a pitching airfoil.

wj19b@fsu.edu

Wesley Jean-Pierre, Master's Student

Wesley Jean-Pierre is a Master’s student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the FSU College of Engineering. He completed his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, specializing in thermal fluids. During his undergraduate tenure, Wesley participated in UROP, contributing to the design of unmanned ground vehicles. He also participated in the FSU-FAMU NASA REU BP-AE program, conducting CFD research on vortices over a pitching airfoil. Currently, his research focuses on continuing CFD analysis of a vortex over a pitching airfoil.

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Sarath K. P., Post-Doctoral Scholar

Sarath is a postdoctoral researcher at CASL, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace 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.

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Anirudh Lakshmi Narasimha Prasad, Post-Doctoral Scholar

Anirudh is a postdoctoral scholar at FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. He obtained his PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Florida State University in August 2024, where his dissertation focused on small perturbation based noise control of supersonic rectangular jets. He also has a Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering from Arizona State University and a Bachelor’s 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 part of a student exchange program initiative in 2017. He is currently focusing his efforts on characterizing shockwave boundary layer interactions over axi-symmetric bodies and on the dynamics of hypersonic boundary layers over canonical geometries.

Summer Research Students

Katelyn Steele, Undergraduate Student

Katelyn is an undergraduate student at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, majoring in Mechanical Engineering with an Aerospace Engineering Certificate. She joined CASL in Summer 2025 as an NSF REU Research Fellow. Her research investigates shock-wave boundary layer interactions on slender bodies, focusing on how variations in Mach number and wedge angle influence interaction structures and aerodynamic loading.

Adrienne Boynes, Undergraduate Student

Adrienne Boynes is an undergraduate student at the Florida State University College of Engineering, majoring in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Thermal Fluids. She serves as the secretary on the AIAA FAMU-FSU College of Engineering board, contributing to student engagement and aerospace initiatives. in the summer of 2024, she joined CASL as an undergraduate researcher. Her work focused on analyzing the mean and unsteady characteristics of shock boundary layer interactions within aircraft inlets operating at supersonic speeds.

Ausband Harris, Undergraduate Student

Ausband Harris is an undergraduate student at the Florida State University College of Engineering, majoring in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on Thermal Fluids. He joined CASL in the summer of 2024 as an undergraduate researcher, where he investigated the acoustic phenomena of impinging jets and the mechanisms driving their sound wave dynamics.

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.

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