| Faculty |
| James M. McDonough | |
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Professor,
Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics __151 RGAN Building __Phone: (859) 257-6336 x80657 __FAX: (859) 257-3304 __Email: jmmcd@uky.edu __Prof. McDonough's Faculty Webpage __Prof. McDonough's Curriculum Vitae |
BS
Aero-Astro Engineering, Ohio State University (1968) MA Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles (1975) PhD Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles (1980) 15+ years industrial experience, primarily in U.S. aerospace industry
Research Interests: CFD, applied mathematics; turbulent
flows and their interaction with other physics, e.g., with heat transfer and
combustion; nonlinear dynamical systems and their use in models of turbulence
and elsewhere; numerical analysis, especially pertaining to solution
of differential equations.
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| Graduate Students |
| Ying (Tracy) Xu | |
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PhD Student,
Mechanical Engineering
__151 RGAN Building __Phone: (859) 257-6336 x80694 __Email: yxu0@engr.uky.edu __Hometown: Jiangxi, China __Previous
degree(s): ME, Tongji University, China (1998); __
MA Applied Math, University of Kentucky (2005) __Research Topics/Interests: __Phase-field model; numeric- __al simulation of phase change. |
| Ahbishek (Ahbi) Tiwari | |
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__MS Student, Mechanical Engineering
__210A RGAN Building __Phone: (859) 257-6336 x80694 __Email: ????@engr.uky.edu __Hometown: ?????, India __Previous degree(s): BE __Research Topics/Interests: Simulation of bubble growth __and transport; numerical analysis of elliptic equations. |
| Chetan B. (Babu) Velkur | |
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__MS Student, Mechanical Engineering __204 RGAN Building __Phone: (859) 257-6336 x80695 __Email: vcbabu@uky.edu __Hometown: Chittoor, India __Previous degree(s): BE Mechanical Engineering, RVCE, __
Bangalore, India __Research Topics/Interests: __ Large-eddy simulation of __compressible turbulent flows;
use of nonlinear dynamical __systems in construction of sub-grid scale models. |
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| Undergraduates |
| Brett Compton | |
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__Undergraduate, Mechanical Engineering __RGAN Building __Phone __Email: bgcomp2@uky.edu __Hometown: Florence, KY __Previous degree(s): N/A __Research Topics/Interests: __Simulation of insect flight; __use of commercial flow codes and grid generators
for __CFD. |
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| High School Students |
| Wenbin Yang |
| High
School Student (Senior) James Madison Memorial High School, Madison, WI Email: wenbinyang1024@hotmail.com |
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| Recent Alumni |
| Stewart Bible |
MS, Mechanical Engineering, 2003 |
| James Booth |
| MS, Mathematics, 2003 PhD student in Geophysics, University of Washington, Seattle. |
| Andrew Loh |
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P. L. Dunbar High School (Graduated Spring 2003) Undergraduate in Engineering, University of Michigan |
| Dr. Tianliang Yang (former post-doctoral scholar) |
| Research Engineer Convergent Thinking, LLC, Madison, WI Email: tlyang@c-think.com |
| Mun-Gwen Chong |
| BS, Mechanical
Engineering, 2004 Engineer, PowerLab, Irwindale, CA, 91706 E-Mail: mercury82x@hotmail.com |
| Shilpi Gupta |
| BS, Computer
Science, 2004 Graduate Student, Computer Science, University of Kentucky E-Mail: sgupt0@uky.edu |
| John Holloway |
| BS, Mechanical Engineering, 2004 MS student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego Email: erasmusneo@yahoo.com |
| Illayathambi Kunadian |
| MS, Mechanical
Engineering, 2004 Research Engineer, Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, 40508 PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky E-Mail: ikuna0@engr.uky.edu |
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| UK Faculty Collaborating with Advanced CFD Group |
| J. D. Jacob, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering |
| Experimental fluid dynamics |
| M. Pinar Mengüç, Professor, Mechanical Engineering |
| Radiation heat transfer; optics |
| Kaveh A. Tagavi, Professor, Mechanical Engineering |
| Phase-change heat transfer |
| Peter Hislop, Professor, Mathematics |
| Mathematical physics, geometric and functional analysis |
| James Griffioen, Associate Professor, Computer Science | ||||||||||||
| Computer networks; operating systems |
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