I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Professor Clarence Rowley in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Princeton University.

My current research projects involve (1) modeling and control of plasma in NSTX and (2) the development of the accelerated 3D parallel immersed boundary projection method computer code for simulating incompressible flows over moving bodies.

My graduate research involved a new formulation of the immersed boundary method to simulate incompressible flow over bodies that can have complex geometries, be in motion, or be under deformation. I used this method to perform numerical simulations of flow over low-aspect-ratio wings at very low Reynolds numbers. This analysis was intended to aid the development of micro-air-vehicles and their control laws.

Last update: November 06, 2008