People
We are looking to grow! If you are interested in joining us, please take a look at our research and our publications for more details. Applications by women and underrepresented minorities are specifically encouraged.
PhD openings on physics and modeling of wall-bounded turbulent flows for external aerodynamic applications. Graduate students should apply directly to the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Undergraduate students looking for research opportunities can email adrianld@mit.edu with their interests and any relevant coursework or research experience.
*Due to the high volume of emails, I might be slow in responding, but I eventually will get back to you! I appreciate your patience.
Faculty
Adrian Lozano-Duran
Adrian is the Draper Assistant Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a faculty member of the MIT Center for Computational Science and Engineering. The overarching theme of my research trajectory is fluid mechanics, with emphasis on turbulence via theory and numerical simulation.
Graduate Students
Yuenong Ling
Yuenong is a third-year graduate student in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. He received a B.S. in Engineering Physics from the University of Michigan and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 2021. His research topics include causality and turbulence modeling. He loves all kinds of sports, especially soccer and college football.
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Yuan Yuan
Yuan is a graduate student starting fall 2022 in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. She received a B.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in May 2022. She is interested in data-driven modeling of turbulence. She enjoys music and sports in her spare time.
Sam Costa
Sam is a first year masters student in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. His research interests include turbulence modeling, external aerodynamics, and numerical methods. He is also on the varsity rowing team and enjoys reading, cycling, cooking, and crossword puzzles in his spare time.
Julian Powers
Julian is a first-year graduate student in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. He recieved a B.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering from MIT in 2023. He is interested in particle image velocimetry for analyzing flow separation. He also enjoys playing chess and running.
Álvaro Martínez-Sánchez
Álvaro is a first-year graduate student in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. He received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valencia in 2021 and a M.S. in Aerospace Engineering with a major in Advanced Aerodynamics from ISAE-SUPAERO, University of Toulouse, in 2023. His research topics include information theory, causality and flow control. Outside of work, he enjoys playing squash and going swimming and hiking.
Brad Roberts
Brad is a second-year PhD student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He hails from western Canada and received BSc and MSc degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alberta. His doctoral research is focused on the implementation of quantum algorithms for computational fluid dynamics. Outside of research, he loves playing sports and being physically active, being outdoors, and trying new things.
Postdocs
Gonzalo Arranz
Gonzalo Arranz is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. He received his PhD in Fluid Mechanics from Universidad Carlos III of Madrid in 2021. His research is focused on external aerodynamics by means of numerical simulations. He is also interested in wall-bounded turbulence modeling and control. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, playing bass and swimming.
Rong Ma
Rong Ma is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. She got her PhD at the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics from University of Minnesota in 2022. Her research is focused on developing wall model LES accounting for roughness. She is also interested in quantifying sensitivity using causality tools. She enjoys playing the violin and traveling in her spare time.
Adam A. Sliwiak
Adam is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. He completed his PhD in Computational Science and Engineering at MIT, advised by Qiqi Wang. The goal of his research is the development of advanced computational tools for applied analysis and prediction of chaotic systems and turbulent flows. His fundamental studies are based on the dynamical systems theory, information theory and numerical analysis. In his spare time, Adam enjoys learning history, theology and philosophy. Adam is also an avid gamer.
Visting Students
Blanca Fuentes-Monjas
Blanca is a second-year MSc student at ETH Zurich. She received her BSc in Aerospace Engineering from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and did her BSc thesis at Delft University of Technology. Her research involves grid refinement for wall-bounded turbulent flows. She enjoys running or doing any kind of sport, and playing the violin.
Undergraduate Students
Timur Uyumaz
Timur is an undergraduate student in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics exchanging this year from Imperial College London. His research involves numerical simulations of wall-bounded turbulence and the examination of coherent structures, and has further interests in chaos theory and optimisation. Tennis and brazilian jiu-jitsu are his favourite ways to start and end the day, and he has thoroughly enjoyed hiking trips to the White Mountains with MIT’s Outing Club.
Past Members
Adam A. Sliwiak
Adam is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. He completed his PhD in Computational Science and Engineering at MIT, advised by Qiqi Wang. The goal of his research is the development of advanced computational tools for applied analysis and prediction of chaotic systems and turbulent flows. His fundamental studies are based on the dynamical systems theory, information theory and numerical analysis. In his spare time, Adam enjoys learning history, theology and philosophy. Adam is also an avid gamer.
Emily Williams (DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellow)
Emily was a graduate student in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. Her research involved using novel methods for computational fluid dynamics of turbulent flows for external aerodynamic applications. Before MIT, she received her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2021. Outside of work, she likes rock climbing and walking around Cambridge/Boston.
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Ichraq Bedraoui (Visiting student)
Ichraq Bedraoui was a Masters student in the Department of Mechanics at École Polytechnique in France. Her research interests included turbulence modelling, propulsion and computational fluid dynamics. Her research project aimed to identify the flow structures over an airfoil responsible for the Fairfield sources of noise using wall-modelled large eddy simulation and causal modal decomposition. She enjoys building aircraft models and painting in her spare time.
Argyrios Apostolidis (Visiting student)
Argyris is a final-year PhD student at Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides de Lille (LMFL). He holds an MEng in Mechanical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and an MSc in Advanced Computational Methods in Aeronautics from Imperial College London. His research interests include wall turbulence, turbulence energy transfer, and dynamics of coherent structures. In his leisure time, he enjoys playing basketball and climbing rocks.
Grace Mao (UROP Student)
Grace was a third-year undergraduate student in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. Her research interests include computational fluid dynamics for turbulence modeling. Her project involved using high-performance computing for running wall-modeled large-eddy simulations of the X-59 supersonic aircraft. Outside of school, she is on the varsity sailing team and enjoys swimming.
