Computational Fluid Dynamics
Research Advisors for Computational Fluid Dynamics
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Daniel Appelö , bioProfessor Daniel Appelö is a numerical analyst with an interest in computational techniques for solving differential equations fast and accurately. He is excited about applications in acoustics, electromagnetics, fluids, and more recently in quantum computing.
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Jeff Borggaard , bioProfessor Borggaard studies the design and control of fluids. This includes computational fluid dynamics, control theory, optimization, sensitivity analysis, uncertainty quantification, and reduced-order models. In each case, the application of these research areas to partial differential equations that describe fluids are of interest.
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Yingda Cheng , bioProfessor Cheng's research areas are in scientific computing, applied mathematics and data-driven modeling and computation. She develops numerical methods for partial differential equations, particularly those in higher dimensional space. The application area of Professor Cheng's research includes fusion energy and semiconductor device modeling, to name a few.
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Ionut-Gabriel Farcas , bioProfessor Farcaș's research bridges scientific computing, high-performance computing, and computational physics. His work focuses on scientific machine learning, reduced and surrogate modeling, uncertainty quantification, and sparse grid and multi-fidelity methods. These computational techniques are designed to tackle complex, large-scale numerical simulations, such as those arising in turbulent transport in fusion devices or combustion processes in rocket engines.
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Traian Iliescu , bioAt the core of Professor Iliescu's research program is his vision of using both mathematics and computations to provide new knowledge on turbulent fluid flows dominated by coherent structures and create models with practical impact in engineering, climate modeling, and medicine. The ultimate goal of his research program is to transform turbulence modeling as we know it today and use mathematics, computations, physics, and data to discover general laws of turbulent fluid flows.
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Tao Lin , bioProfessor Tao Lin's main research interest is the numerical analysis on computational methods related with differential equations. He designs new numerical methods and carry out their convergence analysis. His recent research focuses on immersed finite element (IFE) methods that can solve interface problems of partial differential equation with interface independent meshes. He is also working on applying IFE methods to interface inverse problems via the shape optimization methodology.
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Johann Rudi , bioProfessor Johann Rudi's research is interdisciplinary and spans large-scale parallel iterative methods for nonlinear and linear systems, development and implementation of algorithms for high-performance computing (HPC) platforms, computational aspects of inverse problems, and quantification of uncertainties in the inferred parameters.
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Peter Wapperom , bioProfessor Wapperom conducts research in computational fluid dynamics of complex fluids. This involves the mathematical modeling and numerical simulation of the flow of polymeric liquids and fluids reinforced with rigid particles.
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Tim Warburton , bioProfessor Warburton holds the John K. Costain Chair in the College of Science at Virginia Tech and is a faculty member of both the Department of Mathematics and the Computational Modeling and Data Analytics program. His research interests include developing new parallel algorithms and methods that are used to solve PDE based physical modes on the largest supercomputers.
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Pengtao Yue , bioProfessor Yue works on the numerical simulation of flow problems with moving boundaries and complex rheology, including multiphase flow, viscoelastic fluids, dynamic wetting, and phase change phenomena.
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Bio ItemAndrea Carracedo Rodriguez , bio
Dr. Carracedo Rodriguez conducts research in numerical analysis, with a focus on efficiently building approximations to dynamical systems from data or via model reduction.
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John Taylor Burleson , bioInstructor Burleson is currently engaged with teaching with an interest in computational fluid dynamics.
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Jorge Reyes , bioDr. Reyes' research involves the theoretical and computational study of fluid dynamics primarily based on the Navier-Stokes equations (NSE). These studies consist of the finite element analysis of numerical solutions for full-order models and the development of corresponding reduced order models (ROMs).
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Ping-Hsuan Tsai , bioI am a postdoctoral associate working on developing data-driven reduced-order models for turbulent heat transfer applications. Particularly, focusing on developing stabilization strategies and error indicators for turbulent flows to be used in engineering routine and design analysis. In addition to turbulent flows, plasma physics is another application that I have been working on recently.
Recently Retired Faculty
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Michael Renardy , bioProfessor Renardy's research is in partial differential equations and applications to fluid mechanics, in particular viscoelastic flows.
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Bio ItemYuriko Renardy , bio
Professor Renardy's research concerns the modeling, analysis and computation of fluid motion, in particular fluids with interfaces and non-Newtonian fluids. She has worked in particular on problems of stability, pattern formation, deformation of drops, and thixotropic yield stress fluids.
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Layne T. Watson , bioDr. Watson's research interests include numerical analysis; nonlinear programming; mathematical software; solid mechanics; fluid mechanics; image processing; parallel computation; bioinformatics.