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The Team (by appointment/degree type, then alphabetically by last name )

Principal investigator

Postdocs

PhD Students

MS Thesis & Graduate independent study students

Visiting scholars

Undergraduate independent study students

Group alumni (alphabetically by last name )

• Dr. Vishal Anand (Purdue, PhD, defended Spring 2020)

  Dissertation: "Microscale Fluid–Structure Interactions between Viscous Internal Flows and Elastic Structures"

  First position after graduation: Postdoc, Purdue University.

• Ahmad Faraz Badar (Aligarh Muslim University, S. N. Bose Fellow, Summer 2019)

  Research topic: OpenFOAM simulation of gravity-driven particle-laden flows in shaped channels.

• Dr. Evgeniy Boyko (Postdoc, Fall 2020–Fall 2021)

  Research topic: microscale flows of non-Newtonian fluids. Joint appointment in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering with Prof. Osman Basaran.

  First position after Purdue: tenure-track Assistant Professor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion — Israel Institute of Technology.

• Ruihuan Cai (China Scholarship Council visiting scholar for academic year 2019–2020)

  Background: PhD student in Chemical Machinery and Equipment at Zhejiang University Hangzhou, China.

  Research topic: discrete element method (DEM) simulation of diffusion of ellipsoidal granular particles in shear flow.

• Sibi Chandrasekhar (Purdue BSME, independent study Fall 2018)

  Independent study topic: interface motion by phase change and diffusion.

  First position after graduation: MS studies in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University.

• Shayak Chatterjee (Purdue BSME, ME Summer Projects 2021, independent study Fall 2021)

  Independent study topic: perturbations and computations in mechanical engineering.

• Aditya Avinash Ghodgaonkar (Purdue, MSME thesis, defended Spring 2019)

  Thesis: "Numerical Methods for Studying Self-similar Propagation of Viscous Gravity Currents"

  First position after graduation: PhD studies in Mechanical Engineering the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• Sonia Gupta (Purdue MSAA, independent study Fall 2020)

  Research topic: computational modeling of gas-liquid flows in packed-bed reactors using OpenFOAM.

• McLayne Houin (Purdue BS, independent study Spring 2022)

  Research topic: large deformation of soft materials.

• Mitchell Howe (Purdue BSME, independent study Fall 2021, Spring 2022)

  Research topic: particle-laden low-Reynolds-number gravity currents.

  First position after graduation: MS studies in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University.

• Tanmay C. Inamdar (Purdue, MSME thesis, defended Spring 2018)

  Thesis: "Unsteady Fluid–structure Interactions in Soft-walled Microchannels"

  First position after graduation: Engineer, Cummins Inc.

• Srinath Kulkarni (Purdue MSAA, independent study Spring 2021–Spring 2023)

  Research topic: longitudinal wave propagation in periodic structures with fluid–structure interactions.

• Zihao Lin (Purdue BSME, SURF 2018 participant, independent study Fall 2018, Spring 2019)

  Research topic: computational analysis of the stability of the interface between two immiscible liquids during injection into tapered Hele-Shaw cells.

  First position after graduation: Graduate studies in Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University

• Dr. Daihui Lu (Purdue, PhD, defended Fall 2021)

  Dissertation: "Modeling of Interfacial Instability, Conductivity and Particle Migration in Confined Flows"

  First position after graduation: Research Scientist, Meta.

• Megan Madden (Purdue BSME, ME Summer Projects 2020, independent study Spring 2021)

  Research topic: computational modeling of hemodynamics and biomechanics of aneurysms and model calibration using murine models.

• Abbhelash S. Menon (Purdue MSAA, independent study Spring 2020)

  Research topic: ANSYS simulations of flows in rectangular microchannels.

• Julia M. Meyer (Purdue BSME, SURF 2017 participant, independent study Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019)

  Research topic: modeling and simulation of dynamics and thermodynamics of coherent structures near phase transitions.

  First position after graduation: PhD studies in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University.

• Sanjan C. Muchandimath (IIT Madras, PURE 2019 participant)

  Research topic: ANSYS simulations and mathematical modeling of the fluid–structure interaction between a viscous Newtonian fluid and a pre-stretched deformable elastic top wall of a microchannel.

  First position after graduation: MS studies in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan.

• Dr. Federico Municchi (Postdoc, Fall 2017–Fall 2018)

  Research topic: computational modeling of multiphase flows and fluid–structure interactions; OpenFOAM solver development.

  First position after Purdue: Research Fellow in Applied Mathematics at The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.

• Masashi Nishiguchi (The University of Mount Union, SURF 2019 participant)

  Research topic: 1D mathematical and computational models of particle transport in multiphase flows in tight geometries (Hele-Shaw cells).

  First position after graduation: Graduate studies in Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University.

• Zoë Song Penko (University of Alabama at Birmingham, SURF 2018 participant)

  Research topic: computational analysis of universality in 1D models of viscous fluid spreading and leveling.

  First position after graduation: PhD studies in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at The University of Notre Dame.

• Joshua David John Rathinaraj (IIT Madras, PURE 2018 participant)

  Research topic: ANSYS simulation and mathematical modeling of fluid–structure interactions between a power-law fluid and a deformable microchannel with an elastic top wall.

  First position after graduation: MS studies in Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• Sanketh Saravanan (IIT Madras, PURE 2017 participant)

  Research topic: ANSYS simulation of fluid–structure interactions in deformable tubes, comparisons with basic theory.

  First position after graduation: MS studies in the Management Science & Engineering program at Columbia University.

• Dr. Tanmay Chandrashekhar Shidhore (Purdue, PhD, defended Summer 2022)

  Dissertation: "Assessing the Role of Biomechanical Fluid–Structure Interactions in Cerebral Aneurysm Progression via Patient-Specific Computational Models"

  First position after graduation: Engineer, MathWorks.

  Previously: MSME, Purdue University, 2018, Thesis: "Computational Analysis of Fluid–Structure Interactions in Shallow, Deformable Microchannels".

• Dr. Kimberly A. Stevens Boster (Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow, Fall 2018–Fall 2020)

  Research topic: biomechanics and hemodynamics of cerebral aneurysms and arterovenous malformations, including patient specific computational modeling. Joint appointment with Prof. Vitaliy L. Rayz's Cardiovascular Flow Modeling Laboratory in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering.

  First position after Purdue: Postdoc, University of Rochester.

• Arjun SR (Purdue, MSME non-thesis, independent study Spring 2017)

  Research topic: fluid–structure interactions between high-speed bubbly flows and pipes, solving the relevant hyperbolic conservation laws with PyClaw.

  First position after graduation: Engineer, Cummins Inc.

• Mengying Wang (Purdue, MSME thesis, defended Spring 2018)

  Thesis: "Mixing by Cutting and Shuffling a Line Segment: The Effect of Incorporating Diffusion"

  First position after graduation: PhD studies in Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University.

• Dr. Xiaojia Wang (Purdue, PhD, defended Summer 2022)

  Dissertation: "Modeling and Stability of Flows in Compliant Microchannels"

  First position after graduation: Postdoctoral Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

• Dr. Zongxin Yu (Purdue, PhD, defended Summer 2023)

  Dissertation: "Interfacial dynamics of ferrofluids in Hele-Shaw cells"

  First position after graduation: Postdoctoral Scholar, Department Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University.

• Usamah Zaman (Purdue BSME, independent study Fall 2018)

  Independent study topic: ANSYS simulations of fluid–structure interactions of viscous internal flows in deformable conduits.

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