Team
The people behind the lab's simulations and models, past and present.
Junlin Yuan
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University. MS (2015) and PhD (2015) degrees from Queen's University, Canada. Prof. Yuan developed large-scale, high-fidelity numerical simulation methods for wall-bounded turbulent flows with complex boundary geometry. Her research goal is to push the boundaries of physical understandings of complex, realistic turbulence, and to develop physic-based and empirical closures for a wide range of applications.
Photo at the 2019 APS-DFD Annual Meeting. From left to right: Timur Aminov, Prof. Mostafa Aghaei Jouybari, Prof. Giles Brereton (Collaborator), Dr. Sai Chaitanya Mangavelli, Dr. Saurabh Pargal, Dr. Guangchen Shen, and Prof. Junlin Yuan (Director).
Current members
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Ryan DePree
Master's StudentProfile coming soon.
Past members
Doctoral
- Aug 2023 – Dec 2024James P. GeddesSimulation of fluid–structure interaction in undulatory swimming.
- Sep 2018 – Feb 2024Sai Chaitanya MangavelliNumerical simulations and modeling of equilibrium and non-equilibrium turbulent flows on rough surfaces. Now at Honda (Ohio, US).
- Jan 2018 – Jan 2023Saurabh PargalNon-equilibrium wall-bounded turbulence and associated noise generation. Now at Cummins Inc.
- Jan 2018 – Mar 2022Guangchen ShenNumerical simulations of permeable-wall turbulence with applications in hyporheic exchange. Now at Rescale Inc.
- Sep 2016 – Dec 2020Mostafa Aghaei JouybariSimulation and modeling of compressible and incompressible turbulent channel flows over rough walls. Assistant Professor at Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Kansas
Master's
- Aug 2024 – May 2026Tommy EricksonPore-scale simulation of reactive transport and biofilm growth in hyporheic sediments (co-advised with M. S. Phanikumar, CEE).
- Jan 2020 – Jun 2025Mace GatzekMS student working on roughness sublayer characterization for separating turbulent boundary layer flow. Now at CFD Research Corporation, Huntsville, AL
Undergraduate
- 2024 – 2025Madeline BlombergAdapting research tooling and findings for outreach.
- Feb 2023 – May 2024Noah SchottReduced-order model of undulatory swim.
- 2023 – 2024Sydney M. KellyFSI simulation of undulatory swimming.
- May – Aug 2020Brandon PhanTurbulent flow kinematics across sediment–water interfaces.
- May – Dec 2019Timur AminovCharacterization of the viscous superlayer from experimental measurement.
- May – Jul 2018Christian LuedtkeNumerical simulation of the turbulent wake behind a square cylinder.
- Nov 2016 – Jun 2017Jinrong ZhangWavelet-based surface roughness synthesis.
- May – Jul 2016Jonathan WestVisualization technique development of rough-wall turbulence.