University research is driven by motivated students with a desire to push the general understanding of the world and methods we use for design. This is a list that is either contributing or has contributed to CFAL!
Postdoctoral ScholarsÂ
| Name | Background/Degree | Degree | Core Research | Works | Year Started | Year Ended | Funding | Present Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Douglas Fontes | Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Uberlandia University (Brazil) | Mechanical Engineering | Quiet Sandblast Nozzle Design | Google Scholar | 2019 | 2021(Est) | Navy SBIR/UCF P3 | Florida Space Institute UCF |
Ph.D. Students
| Name | Degree | Degree | University | Thesis Title | Year Started | Year Ended | Funding | Present Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caroline Anderson | Ph.D. | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | CFD of Hypersonic Flows | 2019 | 2024(Est) | ORC | UCF |
| Tadd Yeager | M.S. | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | Evaluation of Bluff Body Aerodynamics | 2019 | 2021 (Est) | ORC | UCF |
| Wayne Farrell | Ph.D. | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | CFD-based Design of Control Algorithms | 2019 | 2023(Est) | ORC | UCF/Sandia National Laboratory |
| George Loubimov | Ph.D. | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | CFD of Undulating Propulsion | 2019 | 2023(Est) | DoD SMART | UCF/Navy |
| Melissa Fronzeo | Ph.D. | Aerospace Engineering | Penn State | Phase-map development of compressible gas jet in a liquid-gas co-flow | 2017 | 2021 (Est) | ONR Grant | Penn State Applied Research Laboratory |
| Belen Vera-Alba | Ph.D. | Aerospace Engineering | Penn State | Tip Gap Leakage and its Impact on Ice Deposition in Engine Shrouds | 2017 | 2021 (Est) | NASA NDSEG | Penn State |
| Amandeep Premi | Ph.D. | Aerospace Engineering | Penn State | Development of an Adaptive, Multiscale, Nonlinear Disturbance Equation Solver | 2011 | 2018 | N/A | Intel |
| David Hanson | Ph.D. | Aerospace Engineering | Penn State | Computational Investigation of Convective Heat Transfer on Ice-Roughened Aerodynamic Surfaces | 2013 | 2017 | VLRCOE | Penn State Applied Research Laboratory |
M.S. Students
| Name | Degree | Degree | University | Thesis Title | Year Started | Year Ended | Funding | Present Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reed Forehand | M.S. | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | TBD | 2019 | 2021 (est) | UCF | |
| Tadd Yeager | M.S. | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | Evaluation of Bluff Body Aerodynamics | 2019 | 2021 (Est) | ORC | UCF |
| Jose Urcia | M.S. | Mechanical Engineering | UCF | Evaluation of Rough Surface Approximations | 2019 | 2020 | UCF | |
| George Loubimov | M.S. | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | Efforts in Numerical Modeling of Undulating Propulsion | 2018 | 2020 | DoD SMART | UCF/Navy |
| Melissa Fronzeo | M.S. | Aerospace Engineering | Penn State | A Computational Study of Gaseous Jets Submerged in a Liquid Co-flow | 2015 | 2017 | ONR Grant | Penn State Applied Research Laboratory |
| Justin Valenti | M.S. | Aerospace Engineering | Penn State | Bounding Methods in Computational Fluid Dynamics for use in a Sequential Decision Process | 2015 | 2017 | Penn State Walker Fellowship | Penn State Applied Research Laboratory |
| Sean McIntyre | M.S. | Aerospace Engineering | Penn State | An Adaptive Immersed Boundary Method for CFD Simulation of Multiphase Flows with Moving Internal Bodies | 2009 | 2011 | ONR Grant | Penn State Applied Research Laboratory |
B.S. Honors Thesis Students
| Name | Degree | Degree | University | Thesis Title | Year Started | Year Ended | Funding | Present Location | 0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Juanpablo Delgado | BS, Honors in Major | Aerospace Engineering | Aerospace Engineering | Evaluation of an Elastic Spheres | 2020 | 2022 (Est) | N/A | UCF | 0 |
| Andrew Vigne | BS, Honors in Major | Aerospace Engineering | Aerospace Engineering | Advanced Modeling of Bike Wheel Aerodynamics | 2020 | 2021 (Est) | N/A | UCF | 0 |
| Chris Kaminsky | BS, Honors in Major | Aerospace Engineering | Aerospace Engineering | Evaluation of Advanced Wing Concepts | 2020 | 2021 (Est) | N/A | Northup Grumman/UCF | 0 |
| Brendon Cavainolo | BS, Honors in Major | Aerospace Engineering | Aerospace Engineering | Direct Resolution of Droplet Impact | 2020 | 2021 (Est) | N/A | UCF | |
| Jason Turner | BS, Honors | Engineering Science | Penn State | Direct Resolution of Droplet Impact | 2016 | 2017 | PSU DURP | Corteva Agriscience | |
| Asish Balu | BS, Honors | Engineering Science | Penn State | Development of a physically accurate cavitation model | 2016 | 2017 | PSU DURP | Textron/Stanford |
B.S. Researcher Students
| Name | Degree | Degree | University | Research Project | Year Started | Year Ended | Program | Present Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Juanpablo Delgado | BS | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | Evaluation of an Elastic Spheres | 2020 | 2022 (Est) | N/A | UCF |
| Andrew Vigne | BS | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | Advanced Modeling of Bike Wheel Aerodynamics | 2020 | 2021 (Est) | N/A | UCF |
| Andres Torres | BS | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | OpenFOAM DSMC | 2020 | 2022 (Est) | N/A | UCF |
| Ismar Mujkanovic | BS | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | Aeroshell Aerodynamics Predictions | 2020 | 2023 (Est) | N/A | UCF |
| Joseph Beach | BS | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | Gridfin Aerodynamics Predictions | 2020 | 2024 (Est) | N/A | UCF |
| Fahad Nabid | BS | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | Aerodynamics Evlautions | 2020 | 2025 (Est) | N/A | UCF |
| Zach White | BS | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | DEM OpenFOAM | 2020 | 2026 (Est) | N/A | UCF |
| Andrew Fordon | BS | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | TBD | 2020 | 2027 (Est) | N/A | UCF |
| Brendon Cavainolo | BS | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | Droplet Resolving SImulations | 2018 | 2019 | Excel | UCF |
| Christopher Kaminski | BS | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | Ship Airwake Interactions | 2018 | 2020 | UCF | |
| Dana Mikkelsen | BS | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | Eulerian/Lagrangian Multiphase CFD | 2019 | 2020 | REU Hyper | UCF |
| David Malyszek | BS | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | Tornado Modeling using CFD | 2019 | 2020 | UCF | |
| Garrett Loving | BS | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | Aerodynamic Enhancement with Sprays | 2019 | 2020 | UCF | |
| Hannah Jarrett | BS | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | Missle Design | 2018 | 2022 | Excel | UCF |
| Joshua Bentley | BS | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | Direct Resolution of Droplet Impact | 2019 | 2020 | UCF | |
| Joshua Fox | BS | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | Development of a physically accurate cavitation model | 2019 | 2020 | UCF | |
| Joshua Mogan | BS | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | Airplane Design | 2018 | 2022 | UCF | |
| Marcus Morin | BS | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | Wing CFD | 2018 | 2019 | AeroJet/RocketDyn | |
| Maria Quiros | BS | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | Submarine Bubble Excitation | 2019 | 2020 | UCF | |
| Nicholas Waywood | BS | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | UCF | ||||
| Nicolas Johnson | BS | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | UCF | ||||
| Patricia Baker | BS | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | Powered Iced Wing Performance | 2019 | 2020 | UCF | |
| Reed Forehand | BS | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | Atomization CFD Simulation | 2018 | 2020 | UCF/NASA | |
| Samuel Finger | BS | Aerospace Engineering | UCF | 2019 | 2020 | UCF | ||
| Jason Turner | BS | Aerospace Engineering | Penn State | investigate multi-physics code, MOOSE, for chemical combustion modeling | 2016 | 2017 | ONR Grant | Corteva Agriscience |
| Aaron Rosen | BS | Aerospace Engineering | Purdue | investigate and parameterize novel study of supercavitating control surfaces | 2010 | 2010 | PSU ARL Summer Intern | Boeing |
| Joshua Norman | BS | Aerospace Engineering | Penn State | investigating CFD for acoustic calculations by simulating high frequency gusts | 2010 | 2010 | PSU ARL Summer Intern | |
| Sean McIntyre | BS | Aerospace Engineering | Penn State | research project investigating supercavitating flows and level-set method development | 2008 | 2009 | PSU ARL Summer Intern | Penn State ARL |
| Barukyah Shaparenko | BS | Mechanical Engineering | Penn State | Investigating Lattice-Boltzman solvers (Powerflow, Exa) for naval applications | 2008 | 2008 | PSU ARL Summer Intern | Penn State ME |
| Ryan Carley | BS | Mechanical Engineering | Penn State | nvestigating surface-piercing objects using OpenFOAM | 2006 | 2007 | PSU ARL Summer Intern | Mason Controls |