Faculty
Michael E. Mueller
Associate Chair and Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Director, Graduate Certificate in Computational Science and Engineering
Associated Faculty, Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering
Associated Faculty, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Office: D332 Engineering Quadrangle
Email: muellerm@princeton.edu
Phone: +1-609-258-5191
Joint Appointment:
Faculty Researcher, High Performance Algorithms and Complex Fluids Group
Computational Science Center
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Postdoctoral Scholars
Hernando Maldonado Colman
Project: Soot Modeling and Ammonia Combustion Modeling
Email: hm2524@princeton.edu
Matthew Yao
Project: Sustainable Combustion Modeling
Email: mxyao@princeton.edu
Graduate Students
John Boerchers
Project: High-Speed Turbulent Combustion Modeling
Email: jb5027@princeton.edu
Israel Bonilla
Project: Turbulent Combustion Modeling and Computational Algorithms
Email: ib0574@princeton.edu
Trevor Fush
Project: Computational Acceleration with Machine Learning Algorithms
Email: sf5201@princeton.edu
Sydney Rzepka
Project: Hydrogen and Ammonia Combustion
Email: sr5286@princeton.edu
Philip Satterthwaite
Project: Sustainable Aviation Fuel Combustion
Email: ps1639@princeton.edu
Michael Schroeder
Project: Soot Modeling
Email: schroeder@princeton.edu
Katie VanderKam
Project: Hydrogen Combustion and Distributed Turbulent Combustion
Email: kev2@princeton.edu
Michael Walker
Project: Hydrogen Combustion and Turbulent Flame Kernels
Email: michael.walker@princeton.edu
Hannah Williams
Project: Farm-Scale Computational Modeling of Offshore Wind Farms
Email: hhwilliams@princeton.edu
Undergraduate Students
Maia Abiani
Project: Low Emissions Ammonia Combustion
Efe Eroz
Project: Sustainable Aviation Fuel Combustion
Visiting Students
None Currently
Postdoctoral Alumni
Temistocle Grenga, 2015-2018
Current Position: Lecturer, University of Southampton
Suo Yang, 2017-2018
Current Position: Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota
Pierre-Yves Taunay, 2020-2022
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering Department, United States Naval Academy
Pavan Prakash Duvvuri, 2021-2022
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Esteban Cisneros Garibay, 2021-2022
Current Position: Data Scientist, Crop Science Division, Bayer
Giuseppe D’Alessio, 2021-2023
Current Position: Data Scientist, Keppel Seghers Belgium NV
Aditya Aiyer, 2020-2023
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Lehigh University
Graduate Alumni
Carla Bahri, PhD, 2016
Dissertation Title: Fundamentals and Scaling of Passive Scalar Fields in Isotropic Turbulence
Current Position: Co-Founder, Volumetric Inc.
Sili Deng, PhD, 2016
Dissertation Title: Chemistry-Transport Coupling in Flame Dynamics and Emissions
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jeffry Lew, MSE, 2018
Master Thesis Title: Large Eddy Simulation Subfilter Modeling of Soot-Chemistry-Turbulence Interactions
Current Position: Assistant Engineer, SciTec Inc.
Jon MacArt, PhD, 2018
Dissertation Title: Computational Simulation and Modeling of Heat Release Effects on Turbulence in Turbulent Reacting Flow
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame
Cody Nunno, PhD, 2019
Dissertation Title: Reduced-Order Manifold Models for Non-Adiabatic Turbulent Combustion
Current Position: Propulsion Systems Engineer, United Launch Alliance
Bruce Perry, PhD, 2019
Dissertation Title: Computationally Efficient Large Eddy Simulation of Multi-Stream Partially Premixed Turbulent Combustion
Current Position: Researcher, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Sandra Sowah, MSE, 2019
Master Thesis Title: Laminar and Turbulent Secondary Flow Profiles for Curved Pipes of Constant Radius of Curvature
Current Position: First Vice President, Learning Experience Design & Platform Manager, Money Management Institute
Alex Novoselov, PhD, 2020
Dissertation Title: Manifold-Based Modeling of Turbulent Reacting Flows: Cool Flames and Multi-Modal Combustion
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah
Kerry Klemmer, PhD, 2022
Dissertation Title: Physics-Based Uncertainty Quantification for Turbulent Flows
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jinyoung Lee, PhD, 2022
Dissertation Title: Unified Manifold-Based Approach to Modeling Combustion-Affected Turbulence
Current Position: Staff Engineer, Samsung Electronics
Cristian Lacey, PhD, 2023
Dissertation Title: Computationally Efficient Data-Enhanced Manifold Modeling of Multi-Modal Turbulent Combustion
Current Position: Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
Undergraduate Alumni
Leland Baldwin, Undergraduate Research Assistant/Senior Thesis, 2013-2014
Senior Thesis Title: Soot Evolution in Turbulent Reacting Flows: Refining the Mesh for Bluff Body Ethylene Flames
Current Position: Energy Manager, ENGIE Impact
Jimin Hong, Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2014
Current Position: Graduate Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University
Silken Jones, Undergraduate Research Assistant/Senior Thesis, 2014-2015
Senior Thesis Title: Analysis of Sooting Turbulent Flames with Dynamic Mode Decomposition
Current Position: Graduate Student, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, Caltech
Po Moon, Undergraduate Research Assistant/Senior Thesis, 2014-2015
Senior Thesis Title: Understanding Soot Emissions in Bluff Body Ethylene Flames in the Same Configuration
Current Position: Analytics Manager, Essence
Kevin Griffin, Undergraduate Research Assistant/Senior Thesis, 2016-2017
Senior Thesis Title: Subfilter Mixture Fraction Variance Model Parameter Sensitivity
Current Position: Graduate Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Kevin Huang, Undergraduate Research Assistant/Senior Thesis, 2016-2017
Senior Thesis Title: Comparison of the Large Eddy Simulation of a Turbulent Subsonic Dimethyl Ether Flame with Experimental Data
Current Position: Senior Business Analyst, Value Retail Plc
Agastya Parikh, Undergraduate Research Assistant/Senior Thesis, 2016-2017
Senior Thesis Title: Passive Boundary Layer Separation Control on a NACA2415 Aerofoil at High Reynolds Number
Current Position: Graduate Student, Fluid Mechanics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Dominic Saunders, Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2017
Current Position: Associate Mechanical Engineer, Tesla
La Lee Lo, Undergraduate Research Assistant/Senior Thesis, 2017-2018
Senior Thesis Title: A Large Eddy Simulation Study of the Flame Structures of Piloted Turbulent Dimethyl Ether Flames
Current Position: Analyst, Advanced Analytics, Kinesso
Omkar Shende, Undergraduate Research Assistant/Senior Thesis, 2017-2018
Senior Thesis Title: On the Efficacy and Accuracy of Models for Large Eddy Simulations of Turbulent Premixed Combustion
Current Position: Graduate Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Daniel Chao, Undergraduate Research Assistant/Senior Thesis, 2018-2019
Senior Thesis Title: Investigation into Computational Performance of a Multi-Modal Turbulent Combustion Model
Current Position: Software Development Engineer, Amazon
Michael Whitmore, Undergraduate Research Assistant/Senior Thesis, 2018-2019
Senior Thesis Title: Analysis and Closure of Dissipation Rates in a Physically Derived Reduced-Order Manifold for Turbulent Combustion
Current Position: Graduate Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
James Armstrong, Undergraduate Research Assistant/Senior Thesis, 2020-2021
Senior Thesis Title: Accuracy of Equilibrium Combustion Models to Predict Mass Fractions of Soot Precursors in Turbulent Jet Flames
Current Position: Associate Research Engineer, Carpenter Company
Nancy Diallo, Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2021
Current Position: Graduate Student, Stanford University
Kenalpha Kipyegon, Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2021
Current Position: Operations and Technology Analyst, Kwanza Jones & José E. Feliciano Initiative
Agnes Robang, Undergraduate Research Assistant/Senior Thesis, 2021-2023
Senior Thesis Title: Deep Learning Modeling of the Filtered Generalized Progress Variable Dissipation Rate in Turbulent Premixed Combustion
Current Position: Junior Systems Modeling Engineer, NobleThermo
Delia Batdorff, Undergraduate Research Assistant/Senior Thesis, 2022-2023
Senior Thesis Title: Optimizing Variable Combinations and Training Sample Sizes from DNS Simulations for Premixed Turbulent Combustion
Kathryn-Alexa Kennedy, Undergraduate Research Assistant/Senior Thesis, 2022-2023
Senior Thesis Title: Simulation of Oceanic Wakes from Flow around Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations and their Creation of Sediment Trails
Current Position: Design Engineer, Solar Landscape
Vassiliki Mancoridis, Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2022-2023
Current Position: Graduate Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Parker O’Neal, Undergraduate Research Assistant/Senior Thesis, 2023-2024
Senior Thesis Title: A Numerical Exploration of the Combustion of a CH4/H2 Fuel Blend in a Diluted Supercritical CO2 Environment
Visiting Alumni
Raymond Langer, Visiting Student Research Collaborator (RWTH Aachen University), 2014-2015
Master Thesis Title: A Tri-Variate Soot Model with the Hybrid Method of Moments
Lukas Berger, Visiting Student Research Collaborator (RWTH Aachen University), 2015
Master Thesis Title: Model Development for Subfilter Soot-Turbulence Interactions in Large Eddy Simulations to Enhance Predictions of Soot Emissions
Chenxi Feng, Visiting Undergraduate Research Assistant (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), 2016
Zhenyang Dong, Visiting Undergraduate Research Assistant (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), 2017
Ruihong Chen, Visiting Undergraduate Research Assistant (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), 2018
Shuyu Ding, Undergraduate Research Assistant (Tsinghua University), 2018-2019
Kai Lok Leung, Visiting Undergraduate Research Assistant (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), 2019
Anurag Surapaneni, Visiting Student Research Collaborator (Barcelona Supercomputing Center), 2022-2023