Faculty
Jayanta Kapat
Professor, CATER Director
Erik Fernandez
Associate Professor
Ladislav Vesely
Assistant Professor
Marcel Otto
Assistant Professor
Post Doctoral Fellows
Vipul Goyal
Uday Manda
Manoj Prabakar Sargunaraj
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
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
Abhilash Prasad
Degree: Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: TBD
Marc Heinrich
Degree: Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: TBD
Andrew Menendez
Degree: Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: TBD
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Elena Torres
Degree: B.S in Aerospace Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: N/A
Claire-Phonie Silaire
Degree: B.S in Aerospace Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: N/A
Synthia Salam
Degree: B.S in Aerospace Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: N/A
Riley Fitzgerald
Degree: B.S in Aerospace Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: N/A
Connor Wall
Degree: B.S in Aerospace Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: N/A
Kheran Sharma
Degree: B.S in Aerospace Engineering
Thesis/Dissertation: N/A
Charles Cunha
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