Research Projects

Petrov-Galerkin PROM for the Taylor-Green Vortex

• • Worked with Dr. Charbel Farhat and Sebastian Grimberg, Farhat Research Group

  • Developed a projection-based reduced order model for the Taylor-Green vortex, a benchmark problem in turbulence

  • Special case of the pre-compute method, due to the problem being characterized by a quadratic dependence on the state

  • Demonstrated stability and accuracy for all length scales even with significant basis truncation

Duke University, Durham NC

Local Higher-Order Corrections to Slender Body Theory

• • Worked with Dr. Donald Bliss, Aeroelasticity Group

  • Funded via the Pratt Fellows program

  • Worked on extending slender body theory to real-world applications to enable accurate and robust use in preliminary design of low aspect-ratio bodies, such as supersonics jets and rockets

Non-destructive Natural Frequency Prediction

• • Assisted by Dr. Lawrie Virgin, Nonlinear Dynamics Group

  • Designed and conducted an experiment on predicting the natural frequency of any oscillatory system from a set of responses to noncritical forcing frequencies

  • Theory from structural dynamics, with applicability to bluff-body aerodynamics

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden