People

Faculty

Ivan Bermejo-Moreno

Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Email: bermejom@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-2881


Doctoral students

Benjamin Dalman

B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada
M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada
Email: dalman@usc.edu

Thomas Cuvillier

B.Sc., New York University, New York
Email: thomas.cuvillier@usc.edu

Aishwarya Krishnan

B.E. (Hons.), Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, India
M.Sc., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Email: ak42121@usc.edu

Vanessa Rubien

B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California
Email: vrubien@usc.edu

Naili Xu

B.E., Ocean Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Email: nailixu@usc.edu

Ryan Zapp

B.Sc., University of the Pacific, Stockton, California
B.Sc., San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, California
Email: rzapp@usc.edu


M.Sc. students

Sodiq Adeniji

Email: sadeniji@usc.edu

H. Himanshu

Email: h190330@usc.edu


Undergraduate students

Humzah Merchant

B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California (class of 2026) Email: hmerchan@usc.edu


Former Lab Members

Postdoctoral Scholars

  1. Jonas Buchmeier (2022).
  2. Donya Ramezanian (2021-2022).

Ph.D. Students

  1. Jonathan Hoy, Ph.D. (2022): Numerical study of shock-wave/turbulent boundary layer interactions on flexible and rigid panels with wall-modeled large-eddy simulations.
  2. Jonas Buchmeier, Ph.D. (2022): Tracking and evolution of compressible turbulent flow structures.
  3. Xiangyu Gao, Ph.D. (2020) (current: Google): Shock-induced combustion and mixing.

Visiting M.Sc. Students

  1. Alexander Bussmann (Technical University Munich) (M.Sc. Thesis, May 2019 - Aug 2019): Tracking and Geometry of multiphase turbulent flows.

M.Sc. Students

  1. Tianyi Bai (USC AME) (Directed Research, Summer, Fall 2020, Spring 2021): Simulation of person-to-person and room-scale droplets/aerosols dispersion.
  2. Noah Seador (USC School of Archiecture) (Directed Research, Spring 2021): Simulation of passive air-filtering on liminal architectural surfaces.
  3. Yiwei (Lucy) Lyu (USC School of Archiecture) (Directed Research, Spring 2021): Simulation of passive air-filtering on liminal architectural surfaces.
  4. Jin Dou (USC CS) (Volunteer Research, 2018-2020): GPU-HPC compressible flow simulation; machine learning for data analysis.
  5. Bailin Chen (USC CS) (Volunteer Research, 2019-2020): GPU-HPC compressible flow simulation; machine learning for data analysis.
  6. Francisco del Campo Melchor (USC AME) (Directed Research, Summer 2020): Simulation of room-scale droplets/aerosols dispersion.
  7. Arjun Pundarika (USC AME) (Directed Research, Summer 2020): Simulation and meshing of supersonic aerodynamics.
  8. Saurabh Dube (USC AME) (Directed Research, Spring 2019): Flat-plate turbulent boundary layer simulation.
  9. Ram-Srinivasan Shyam-Sundar (USC AME) (Directed Research, Spring 2018): CFD Visualization.

Undergraduate Students

  1. David Magie (USC AME): CFD simulation of entry, descent and landing space mission.
  2. Sinclair Sparkes (USC AME): Meshing and CFD simulation of entry, descent and landing space mission.
  3. Marshall Basson (Carleton College - Physics) (USC SURE 2019): Wall-model LES of backward-facing step; Python-based meshing.
  4. William Jo (University of Carlifornia, Irvine) (USC SURE 2019): Data mining and particle tracking shock-turbulence interaction datasets.
  5. David Nagoshi (USC AME) (Volunteer Research, Spring 2019): CFD simulation.

High-School Students

  1. Alan Wang (Junior at Arnold O. Beckman High School) (SHINE, 2020): Visualization of Turbulent Flow Structures.