Curtis Hamman

Center for Turbulence Research
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
Building 500, Room 500F
Stanford, CA 94305

Email:	cwhamman@stanford.edu
Website:	http://www.stanford.edu/~cwhamman/

Background

My research involves the integration of mathematical and numerical analysis to better understand the physics of turbulent flows. Primary research interests include vorticity dynamics, compressible material dynamics, multiphysics methods, and computational mechanics. I am a graduate research assistant at the Center for Turbulence Research working with Professor Parviz Moin to develop numerical methods and turbulence models for nuclear energy applications.

Education

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Physics minor, with Honors and Research Distinction. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, May 2007. Advisors: Drs. Robert M. Kirby and Joseph C. Klewicki.

Refereed Journal Publications

C.W. Hamman, R.M. Kirby and M. Berzins, ''Parallelization and scalability of a spectral element channel flow solver for incompressible Navier-Stokes equations,'' Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. 19:10, pp. 1403-1422, 2007.
C.W. Hamman, J.C. Klewicki and R.M. Kirby, ''On the Lamb vector divergence in Navier-Stokes Flows,'' Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 610 pp. 261-284, 2008.

Conference Proceedings

C.W. Hamman, R.M. Kirby and J.C. Klewicki, ''On the Lamb vector divergence as a momentum field diagnostic employed in turbulent channel flow,'' 59th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, Tampa Bay, FL, November 2006. [.pdf | .ps]