Current Students

Chaitanya Ghodke

Chaitanya is a Ph.D. (expected 2015) student in the School of MIME. He got his batchelor's degree in Pune, India and his MS in Aerospace at Georgia Tech in 2009. He then worked at CD-Adapco as a CFD application engineer. He joined our group in Winter 2013 to work on a NSF funded project (#1133363) on sediment-bed-turbulence coupling in oscillatory flows. He will use the fictitious domain as well as LES-DEM approaches in his research to characterize sediment-turbulence interactions, sediment incipient motion in coastal environments.

 

Tracie Jackson

Tracie is a Ph.D. student (expected 2013) Geosciences department and is co-advised by Prof. Roy Haggerty and Dr. Apte. She came to OSU from University of Nevada and is working on a NSF-funded collaborative project (#0943570) (Surface transient storage in dead zones: Residence times from stream morphology, velocity and CFD modeling). This collaborative work will involve training of hydrologists and geo-scientists in CFD and LES methodologies.

 

Joseph Skitka

Joe is a MS student (expected 2013) in the School of MIME. He came to Oregon State from Massachusetts and with a Physics background. He is working on development of fictitious domain/immersed boundary type approaches for fully resolved simulations (FRS) of arbitrary shaped immersed bodies in fluid flow. He is our group's mountain/rock climbing expert.

 

Charles Rymal

Charles is a MS student (expected 2014) in the School of MIME. He did his BS at OSU in Mechanical Engineering. He is working on the Sunshot Solar Concentrator Project funded by DoE under the EERE program. Charles is using CFD to help design microchannel based solar receiver efficient removal of solar heat flux on the order of 100W/cm2 using supercritical CO2 and keeping the pressure drop small.