Faculty
Jayanta Kapat
Professor, CATER Director
Erik Fernandez
Associate Professor
Ladislav Vesely
Assistant 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
Nandhini Raju
Degree: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: Improving Structural Integrity of Additively Manufactured High-Temperature Gas Turbine Component
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
Manoj Prabakar Sargunaraj
Degree: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: Thermal management of a Hypersonic Re-entry Vehicle Leading Edge
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 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
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Elena Torres
Degree: B.S in Aerospace 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