Areas of Research

• Numerical simulations of reactive flows

• Modeling CO2 desublimation in carbon capture

• Sustainable aviation fuels

• Mathematical modeling of hemostasis and thrombosis under flow 

• High Performance Computing 

Research Projects

• Developed FuelLib, a fuel library leveraging the group contribution method to accurately predict thermodynamic properties of organic compounds for combustion simulations related to sustainable aviation fuels.

• Adding capabilities to PeleLMeX to enable exascale modeling of CO2 desublimation in carbon capture.

• Developed clotFoam: an open-source framework for simulating blood clotting in a variety of domains to study hemostasis, thrombosis, clotting disorders and treatments.

• Understanding the effect of transmural pressure drop on blood clotting under flow in extravascular injuries.

• Developing novel continuum models of platelet aggregation for applications in high-shear flow. 

Education

• BS in Applied Mathematics with minor in Physics from Metropolitan State University 2018

• MS in Computational and Applied Mathematics from the Colorado School of Mines 2020

• PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematics from the Colorado School of Mines 2023

Publications

• David Montgomery, Federico Municchi and Karin Leiderman, clotFoam: An open-source framework to simulate blood clot formation under arterial flow. SoftwareX (2023) 101483, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2023.101483.

• David Montgomery, A Computational framework for modeling blood clotting in extravascular injuries. Mines Theses & Dissertations (2023), https://hdl.handle.net/11124/178643.

Software Development

• clotFoam: An open-source framework for simulating blood clotting. https://github.com/d-montgomery/clotFoam.

• clotFoam tutorial: A pdf that introduces the basics of OpenFOAM and how to compile/edit the clotFoam software.

• FuelLib, a fuel library leveraging the group contribution method