Research AST, Fluid Mechanics

Co-led multi-year applied CFD analyses, verified methods, built best practices, and enabled analysis for 15+ aircraft and launch vehicle programs.

Co-led multi-year analyses on Boeing TTBW, driving improved best practices, workflows, and accuracy.

Performed code-to-code verification, sensitivity studies, method evaluations, grid adaption, wind-tunnel validation, and applied CFD turbulence-modeling work recognized with an AIAA Best Paper award.

Became the team's CAD preparation and meshing expert using Pointwise, ANSA, CGT, and Star-CCM+.

Enabled analysis for 15+ aircraft programs including X-59 Low Boom, X-57 Distributed Electric Propulsion, RVLT, SLS Artemis, Jet Acoustics, and High-Lift CRM.

Cleaned up and prepared watertight models and meshes for several SpaceX rockets from full assemblies, and wrote Tcl/Tk and Python tools for meshing, workflows, and data speedups up to 60x while reducing error.