University of Michigan

Graduate Student, Aerospace Engineering

Doctoral Candidate, Laboratory for Turbulence and Combustion

College of Engineering

Thesis Title: Three Dimensional Inlet - Shockwave Boundary Layer Interactions

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I am a committed community member, a dedicated teacher, and a driven researcher. Through my efforts, I strive to improve my community, my students, and the world. My research impacts turbulent transport in high speed flows. Applications of Shock-Boundary Layer Interactions are predominantly related to engine efficiency and structural fatigue of high speed aircraft. The highly 3D interaction involves shear-turbulence-shock interactions, managing boundary layers in adverse pressure gradients, and mitigating total pressure shock losses.

More broadly, measurement science as a discipline faces a number of challenges in the 21st century. In the current culture where measurements are a universal 'truth' for CFD simulation comparisons, it is often our ability to comprehend which lags behind our capacity to measure. Necessitating, for example, a conceptual paradigm shift from 'traditional 2D flow' to '3D flow.' There remains a pressing need in the community for newly defined integrated quantities which can be compared to CFD in highly turbulent three dimensional domains to better assess the accuracy of these simulations. Defining these quantities carefully would allow modelers and experimentalists to explore trends and compare the relative rate of convergence of their simulations and measurements with both analytical solutions, and physically motivated reduced order models.

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