Graduate Students
Kyle is a Ph.D. student who obtained his undergraduate degrees in physics and computer science from California State University, Chico. He started at Notre Dame in 2019.
Chibueze is a PhD student from Nigeria. He received his BSc. in Geophysics from the University of Lagos (Nigeria), MSc. in Mathematical sciences (AIMS, Rwanda) and a Pre-PhD in Earth System Physics (ICTP, Italy). He started at Notre Dame in 2020 and is currently working on the rapid intensification of hurricanes.
Kristin is a PhD student from La Porte, Indiana who received her B.S. in Physics from Purdue University Northwest (Hammond, IN). Previous to that, she earned a B.A. in Biblical Literature and Philosophy at Bethel University (Mishawaka, IN). She is currently working on direct numerical simulations of experiments conducted with the Pi Chamber facility housed at Michigan Technological University.
Rolf is a graduate student from Malaysia who joined the group in Fall 2023. He received his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering with a minor in Applied Math from Syracuse University. His research interests include CFD, turbulence, boundary layer flows, especially with multiphase components. His current research focuses on modeling and simulation of aerosols-cloud-turbulence interactions.
Research Scientists and Postdoctoral Researchers
Andrew is a postdoctoral researcher who joined the group in January 2023. He earned his PhD from the University of Waterloo (Canada) in 2022, and his research was focused on the effects of the nonlinear equation of state on the development of several classes of density driven flows in cold water. His recent research is focused on vertical mixing and entrainment due to the cabbeling instability in parallel shear flows.
Former Students and Postdocs
- Camilo Rodriguez was a postdoctoral scholar from 2021-2023. He went on to another postdoctoral position at the University of California, Merced.
- Colin Denzel received his M.S. in 2023 with a thesis entitled "A physics informed stochastic model for the behavior of particles in Rayleigh-Benard Turbulence". He now works for Ball Aerospace in Colorado.
- Charlotte Wainwright arrived in 2018 as a postdoctoral scholar, and left in 2022 as a Research Scientist. She now works in the insurance industry in Boston.
- Daniel Sexton received his M.S. in 2022 with a thesis entitled "Rayleigh number effects on direct numerical simulations of the Pi Chamber".
- Wei Gao was a postdoctoral researcher from February 2021 - February 2022, and worked on particle-laden turbulence and dust transport.
- John Park received his Ph.D. in 2021, and is now National Research Council postdoc at the Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey, CA
- Karina Soto Rivas received her joint Notre Dame-Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Ph.D. in 2021. She is now a postdoctoral researcher in Chile
- Guiquan Wang was a postdoctoral researcher from January 2018 - October 2019, and worked on particle-laden turbulence and dust transport.
- Tianze Peng received his Ph.D. in 2020 with a thesis entitled "Thermodynamic feedback of evaporating sea spray droplets in marine atmospheric turbulent boundary layer", and is now a postdoc at McGill University
- Elise Wright received her Ph.D. in 2019 with a thesis entitled "Lagrangian methods to study mixing and reactions in flows through heterogeneous porous media", and now works as a hydrologist at the USGS
- Indrajith Nissanka was a postdoctoral scholar at Notre Dame from 2016-2018 and worked on parameterizations of aerosols in the marine atmospheric boundary layer
- Duy Nguyen graduated with his M.S. in 2017 with a thesis entitled "Sea spray concentration profile in the marine atmospheric boundary layer"
- Brian Helgans graduated with his M.S. in 2015 with a thesis entitled "Turbulent latent and sensible heat flux in the presence of evaporative droplets"