Faculty
Jayanta Kapat
Professor, CATER Director
Erik Fernandez
Associate Professor
Marcel Otto
Assistant Professor
Post Doctoral Fellows
Vipul Goyal
Doctoral and Master Students
Emmanuel Gabriel-Ohanu
Degree:Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: Investigation of Effect of Inclination on SCO2 Heat Transfer in a Circular Pipe
Weston Olson
Casting Simulations Design Engineer at Siemens-Energy
Degree: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (thermo-fluids)
Thesis/Dissertation: Anisotropic Heat Transfer Mechanisms in Equiaxed Casting Processes
Adil Riahi
Degree: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: Cryogenic Hydrogen Storage Using the Adsorption Process
Brandon Cotto
Degree: M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: TBD
Lucas Cavalcante
Degree: M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: TBD
Kangana Chiragkumar Patel
Degree: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: TBD
Ryan Wardell
Degree: Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: The Numerical and Experimental Study on Conjugate Heat Transfer of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Cooling in a Staggered Pin Fin Array
Abhilash M. Prasad
Degree: M.S. in Aerospace Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: TBD
Marc Heinrich
Degree: M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: TBD
Andrew Menendez
Degree: M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: TBD
Elena Torres
Degree: M.S. in Aerospace Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: N/A
Alejandro Moreno
Degree: M.S. in Aerospace Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: N/A
Ghanshyam Sarobar Mandal
Degree: Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: TBD
Ben Turner
Degree: M.S. in Aerospace Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: N/A
Claire-Phonie Silaire
Degree: M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation:sCO2 Waste Heat Recovery System Configuration and Integration for Jet Engine Application
Mairah Ahmed
Degree: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: TBD
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Riley Fitzgerald
Degree: B.S. in Aerospace Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: N/A
Connor Wall
Degree: B.S. in Aerospace Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: N/A
Matthew Dearolph
Degree: B.S. in Aerospace Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: N/A
Nicholas Harden
Degree: B.S. in Aerospace Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: N/A
Jesse Chotiner
Degree: B.S. in Aerospace Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: N/A
Orlando Lugo
Degree: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: N/A
Rohan Jay
Degree: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: N/A
Noah Santiago-Walsh
Degree: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: N/A
Alumni
Patrick Tran
Degree: Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: Flow Induced Vibrations in Corrugated Flexhoses
Yakym Khlyapov
Degree: M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: Hydrogen Storage in Silica Aerogel at Cryogenic Conditions
John Richardson
Degree: M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Thermal Fluids)
Thesis/Dissertation: Experimental and Numerical Study of Jet Impingement with SCO2
Uday Manda
Postdoc
Nandhini Raju
Degree: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: Improving Structural Integrity of Additively Manufactured High-Temperature Gas Turbine Component
Manoj Prabakar Sargunaraj
Postdoc
Charles Cunha
Degree: B.S. in Aerospace Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: N/A
Ladislav Vesely
Assistant Professor