Timeline
2024-Present
PhD Student, University of Oregon
Electromagnetic Signatures of Compressible Granular Jets
Using numerical methods and shock tube experiements to understand the electromagnetic fields resulting from charged particles in a high-speed flow. These flows are common in particularly explosive volcanic eruptions such as the 2022 Hunga-Tonga eruption.
2024
Navy Research Enterprise Internship Program
Hypersonic Aerothermal Analysis
2023-2024
Wings Subsystem lead
Distributed Electric Propulsion – Senior Design Project
Our team of seven Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering seniors is designing, building, and flying a subscale Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) using Distributed Electric Propulsion (DEP). I was elected to lead the development and manufacturing of the aircraft’s wings, a process that has involved extensive computational modeling in Star CCM+ and XFLR5.
2023
University of Florida
Multiphase Reactive Flow Group
With Dr. Ryan Houim, I investigated the use of Symbolic Regression to discover a sparse relationship for speed of sound in a compressible polydisperse granular phase
2021-present
Computational Biomechanics Lab
With Dr. Luigi Perotti, I am investigating the effect that a small boat’s asymmetry has on it’s total drag and planing characterisitcs. We are using a multiphase model with two allowed degrees of freedom to capture the translation and rotation from the hydrodynamic forces.
2021-2022
Head of Aerodynamics
Elected by the team as Head of Aerodynamics in May of 2021 to lead the development, manufacturing, and testing of all aerodynamic components on UCF’s student built race car. Testing involved extensive computational simulations using Star CCM+ and was roughly validated through tuft flow visualization.
2020-2021
Computational Fluid & Aerodynamics Lab
With Dr. Michael Kinzel, I started using and understanding Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software Star CCM+. Eventually began studying automotive aerodynamics and working with 4th year undergraduate student Andy Torres on data driven approaches to fluid dynamics.