💼 Professional experience
- Authored/Co-authored 10+ journal and 20+ conference publications
- Hypersonic boundary-layer instabilities
- Collaborated with researchers at NASA, Air Force, various universities and international groups
- Designed a semi-automated workflow for stability analysis to improve turnaround time and consistency.
- Built Python, Fortran, MATLAB, and Bash tools to automate data processing, simulation setup, and analysis of large technical datasets.
- Mesh generation → CFD → stationary/convective stability analysis → post-processing
- Improvements enabled the parametric study of a cone-flare geometry with 310 cases as opposed to previous works with only upwards of a dozen cases.
- Enhanced NASA's VULCAN-CFD production code.
- Added a two-layer surface adaptation for structured grids. Many options included to suit a variety of use cases (e.g. boundary-layers, inner shocks, off-body distances).
- Improved the structured grid surface adaptation smoothing so it accounts for the actual surface coordinates as opposed to wall distance. The smoothing can be controlled with Cartesian location or surface curvature to account for blunt leading-edges, for example.
- Improvements crucial to stability analysis as it requires smooth grids tailored to the boundary layer, especially for separated regions.
- Diagnosed and corrected boundary-condition Jacobian issues in VULCAN-CFD using Fortran.
- Executed test cases for all boundary-conditions simultaneously on Langley's K High Performance Cluster with Bash.
- Enabled faster, manually coded, boundary-condition routines which improved the performance of the solver.
