People

Faculty

Ivan Bermejo-Moreno

Associate 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
M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, California
Email: vrubien@usc.edu

Ryan Zapp

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

M.Sc. students

Richard Strebe

Email: richard.strebe@tum.edu

Former Lab Members

Postdoctoral Scholars

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

Ph.D. Students

  1. Naili Xu, Ph.D. (2025): A novel sensor-based blended wall-modeling approach for large-eddy simulation of flows with relaminarization.
  2. 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.
  3. Jonas Buchmeier, Ph.D. (2022): Tracking and evolution of compressible turbulent flow structures.
  4. 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. Sodiq Adeniji(USC AME) (Directed Research, Spring 2023, Fall 2023): Scientific visualization of turbulent flows coupled with solid deformation.
  2. Himanshu (USC AME) (Directed Research, Summer 2022 - Summer 2023, ): Aerodynamics of space vehicles in atmospheric reentry.
  3. Tianyi Bai (USC AME) (Directed Research, Summer, Fall 2020, Spring 2021): Simulation of person-to-person and room-scale droplets/aerosols dispersion.
  4. Noah Seador (USC School of Archiecture) (Directed Research, Spring 2021): Simulation of passive air-filtering on liminal architectural surfaces.
  5. Yiwei (Lucy) Lyu (USC School of Archiecture) (Directed Research, Spring 2021): Simulation of passive air-filtering on liminal architectural surfaces.
  6. Jin Dou (USC CS) (Volunteer Research, 2018-2020): GPU-HPC compressible flow simulation; machine learning for data analysis.
  7. Bailin Chen (USC CS) (Volunteer Research, 2019-2020): GPU-HPC compressible flow simulation; machine learning for data analysis.
  8. Francisco del Campo Melchor (USC AME) (Directed Research, Summer 2020): Simulation of room-scale droplets/aerosols dispersion.
  9. Arjun Pundarika (USC AME) (Directed Research, Summer 2020): Simulation and meshing of supersonic aerodynamics.
  10. Saurabh Dube (USC AME) (Directed Research, Spring 2019): Flat-plate turbulent boundary layer simulation.
  11. Ram-Srinivasan Shyam-Sundar (USC AME) (Directed Research, Spring 2018): CFD Visualization.

Undergraduate Students

  1. Humzah Merchant(USC AME): Data assimilation from CFD simulation of entry, descent and landing space missions.
  2. David Magie (USC AME): CFD simulation of entry, descent and landing space missions.
  3. Sinclair Sparkes (USC AME): Meshing and CFD simulation of entry, descent and landing space mission.
  4. Marshall Basson (Carleton College - Physics) (USC SURE 2019): Wall-model LES of backward-facing step; Python-based meshing.
  5. William Jo (University of Carlifornia, Irvine) (USC SURE 2019): Data mining and particle tracking shock-turbulence interaction datasets.
  6. 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.