Undergraduate Student Projects
Current Projects
2024-2025:
2024-2025:
N. Mills, Sharp interface model for energy and mass transport through a cellulose fiber wall
Previous Projects
2023-2024:
K. Chhoeuk, "Energy loss effects on thermal inactivation of pathogens in aerosolized droplets through electromagnetic heating"
2021-2022:
J. Jorgensen, "Optimum energy absorption in resonant two-layer laminates"
2016-2017:
T. deRito, "Acoustically-aided drying of thin liquid films"
N. Porter, "Electrically-aided sintering"
2015-2016:
H. Yu, "Dynamics of Atomtronic Battery" (co-advised with A.Z. Zozulya). Provost MQP winner in Physics.
J. Xie, "Sommerfeld Effect for a Rotor with Asymmetric Support Stiffness" (co-advised with M. Dimentberg)
2014-2015:
D. Gendin, "Mathematical Modeling of Charged Laminate Materials". Provost MQP winner in Mathematics
K. Chen, "On the performance of slinky residential geothermal energy harvesters".
2012-2013:
Y. Lu, "Marangoni-Soret instabilities in gravity-driven falling films"
2011-2012:
B. Hamm & K.R. Peterson, "Corrugated Wall Effect in Vertical Concentric Ground Source Heat Pumps", Provost MQP winner in Mathematics.
Summer 2011:
V.C. Yang, "Mathematical modeling in residential geothermal systems", funded by WPI Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF). Appeared in Journal of Engineering Mathematics 102 (1) 131-150 (2017).
2010-2011:
T. Spoor, "Swimming Filaments" (co-advised with S.A. Koehler). Provost MQP winner in Physics. Appeared in Physics of Fluids 24 (9) 091901: (2012).
M. Rasco, "Boundary-Value Problems in Geothermal Heat Harnessing".
REU's@WPI
Summer 2023: K. Gomez-Haibach and Z. Adams, "Optimizing multilayer electromagnetic heat exchangers", funded through AFOSR.
Summer 2022: Y. Chen, D. Milligan, K. Grieco, and N. Willemsen, "Optimizing Efficiencies in an Electromagnetic Heat Exchanger", Industrial Sponsor: Dr. Zane Cohick, Directed Energy Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory-Kirtland (co-advised with Prof. V.V Yakovlev).
Summer 2019: J. Bernardi, V. Filardi, M. Finch, T. Shinkre, and J. Zhang, "Material Wear Data Analysis", Industrial Sponsor: Dr. Mng Fu, General Electric Aviation. (co-advised with Prof. R.C. Paffenroth).
Summer 2018: S. Amato, L. Moore, K. Ragosta, S. Stowe, "Modeling the Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Interacting Fish Species in the Northeast Continental Shelf", Industrial Sponsor: Dr. Sarah Gaichas, NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center. (co-advised with Prof. A. Arnold).
Summer 2015: C. FitzGerald, A. Gambino, J. Keane, C. Mauck, "Integrating Fish Movement in Multispecies Population Models". Industrial Sponsor: Dr. Sarah Gaichas, NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center. (co-advised with Prof. M. Rostami)
Summer 2014: K. Hawekotte, S. Naden, S. Novitzky, M. Sapp, "Performance sensitivity to installation methods in vertical U-tube geothermal energy harvesting systems", Industrial Sponsor: Paul Ormond, P.E., C.G.D, Haley & Aldrich, Inc. and the New England Geothermal Professional Association.
Summer 2011: J. Boyer, S. Frei, K. Lockwood, G. Stewart, "Geometry and flow effects on the performance of vertical residential geothermal heating systems", Industrial Sponsor: New England Geothermal Professional Association. Appeard in Journal of Engineering Mathematics 86 (1): (2014).
Summer 2010: E. Cody, M. Lapa, K. Park, M. Valcarce, "Mathematical Modeling of Cobbling Instabilities in Steel Rod Fabrication, Industrial Sponsor: Siemens VAI.
Projects@Olin College
2007-2008:
N.R. Kapania, K. Terracciano, S. Taylor, "Modeling the Fluid Flow around Airfoils using Conformal Mapping", Appeared in SIAM Undergraduate Research Online, 1 (2): (2008).
Z. Borden, "Energy harvesting in oil-producing applications", sponsored by Schlumberger-Doll Research.
2006-2007:
M. Brouillard, J. Freeman, M. Penner, B. Rowan, T. Schwartz, "Downhole energy generation", sponsored by Schlumberger-Doll Research.
Z. Borden, "On dimpled thin liquid films". Appeared in Physics of Fluids 20 102013 (2008).
2005-2006:
K. King, "Pattern formation in cholesterol crystallization", (co-advised with Y.V. Zastavker).