Lab Director

Gianluca Iaccarino



Graduate Students

Michael Emory


  • PhD Candidate Mechanical Engineering
  • Mike is working on numerical simulation of hypersonic air-breathing vehicles focusing on both turbulence and combustion modeling. He is focused on developing a new framework to study structural (epistemic) uncertainties induced by assumptions in the turbulence models.
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Gary Tang


  • PhD Candidate Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Gary's interest is in methods to study uncertainty using optimization. He is focused on the Compressed Sensing paradigm with application to wind turbine studies. He has also worked on global sensitivity and approaches to propagate interval-type uncertainties.

Akshay Mittal


  • PhD Candidate ICME
  • Akshay is studying uncertainty propagation in multi-physics problems. He has developed a framework to efficiently glueing together different intrusive/non-intrusive methods. This work is applied to heat trasnfer and reaction/diffusion-type problems.

Saman Ghili


  • PhD Candidate ICME
  • Saman works on low-rank separated representations, a promising approach to handle computational models affected by large number of uncertainties. He is focused on the study of the uncertainty introduced in reactive flows by imprecise specification of the reaction rates.

Alumni - Graduated Students

Per Pettersson


  • PhD ICME 2013
  • "Doctoral Thesis (DRAFT)"
  • Per has been working on numerical methods for solving fluid mechancs problems in the presence of uncertainties. He has used Stochastic Galerkin methods to capture uncertainties in the specification of the boundary conditions with applications to two-phase flows.

Qiqi Wang


  • PhD ICME 2008 (co-advised with P. Moin)
  • Assistant Professor, MIT
  • "Doctoral Thesis"
  • For his thesis Qiqi worked on adjoints methods for unsteady fluid dynamics problems, creating a new algortihm for optimal checkpointing. He also introduced a new approximation framework based on rational functions.

Paul Constantine


  • PhD ICME 2009
  • von Neumann Fellow, Sandia National Lab
  • "Doctoral Thesis"
  • Paul's research was inspired by spectral methods used in uncertainty quantification. He developed an adaptive approach to increase their accuracy and also worked on hybrid approaches for uncertain heat transfer problems.

Tonkid Chantrasmi


  • PhD ME 2010
  • Assistant Professor, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok Thailand
  • "Doctoral Thesis"
  • Tonkid has developed a Pade approximation method to propagate uncertainty through systems that display strong non-linearirites. This new method has been applied to high-speed fluid flow problems dominated by shock waves.

John Axerio-Cilies


  • PhD ME 2012
  • "Doctoral Thesis (DRAFT)"
  • John worked on large scale simulations of the flow in and around tire/brake assemblies used Formula 1. He also performed optimization under uncertainty of the brake cooling duct using 1000s of full scale simulations which included uncertainties in the tire geometry.


Post Doctoral Researchers

Jeroen Witteveen


Catherine Gorle


  • Modeling of turbulent mixing using LES and RANS, uncertainty quantification

Jerome Dombard


  • LES simulations of swirling flows, multiphase flows, uncertainty quantification

Collaborators

Alireza Doostan


George Papanicolaou


  • Robert Grimmett Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
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James Glimm


  • Department Chair and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, SUNY Stony Brook
  • Personal Site

Jan Nordstrom


  • Professor and Head of Division in Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics, Linköping Universit, Sweden
  • Personal Site