Students and Staff
Current Students
Ji Zhou (Ph.D.)
I joined FPCL in 2020 Fall. I’ve been working on cutting-edge research projects, currently a flow-physics-informed model of fish collective behavior and high-fidelity simulations of fish mechanics in 3D. My previous research experience spans a range of biomedical/biological topics, from simulating blood flow in the left ventricle and cerebral aneurysms to designing in-vivo medical devices for abdominal aortic aneurysm treatment and investigating the flapping wings of mosquitoes.
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Sharun Kuhar (Ph.D.)
I am interested in biological and environmental applications of fluid mechanics. I joined FPCL in 2020, and I am currently working on gastro-intestinal biomechanics. In the past, I have studied thick slurry flow in mining industries, linear stability analysis of flow past a square cylinder at different blockage ratios, and mechanics of high-fiber-count optical fiber cables.
Sushrut Kumar (Ph.D.)
At Hopkins, my research integrates flow physics, computer science, and applied mathematics to reverse engineer biological multiphysics and provide engineering solutions. I achieved this by developing mathematical models and translating them into a new simulation software capable of running efficiently on O(1000) processors in HPC clusters using numerical methods to simulate multiphysics phenomena. The resulting high-dimensional datasets require statistical techniques and machine learning tools like PCA, FPM, ANN, and Gaussian process regression for analysis.
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Suryansh Prakhar (Ph.D.)
I joined FPCL in summer 2021. My PhD research will involve studying flow around rotors, specifically tracking vortices around the rotor and developing a computational model to find the contribution of different vortices and their interaction on aerodynamic forces and aeroacoustic noise. Before joining FPCL, I worked under Dr. Prosperetti on a project which focused on the effect of falling particles on the onset of instability in Rayleigh-Bénard convection.
Weixuan Li (Master)
I joined FPCL in the summer of 2023. My research interests include computational fluid dynamics and biofluid mechanics. At FPCL, I focus on stomach biomechanics, specifically developing computational models to study digestion and gastric emptying through multiphase flow simulations. Before joining FPCL, I worked with Prof. Lian-ping Wang on the implementation of large-eddy simulations and the Lattice Boltzmann Method for turbulence research.
Haobo Zhao (Master)
I’m interested in computational fluid dynamics with a focus on biofluid mechanics applications. I joined FPCL in the winter of 2023, focusing on studying pancreatic duct flow and its interactions with complex geometries. By integrating computational tools, I aim to enhance patient-specific disease identification and ultimately improve patient outcomes.
Research Staff
Harshal Raut (Post-Doc)
I joined the FPCL group in mid-December, 2022. My research interests include fluid-structure interaction, multiphase flows and AI in fluid mechanics. Currently I am working on using energy from waves for thrust generation for boats using heaving and pitching airfoils. It includes coupled fluid-structure interaction and multiphase flow simulations on supercomputers. I received my PhD from IIT Bombay in 2022, where I worked on heat transfer enhancement for nucleate boiling using externally actuated surfaces.
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