Academia
I have worked on and been involved in a variety of really cool projects and activities during my time in academia. You can view my ORCID record here: 
Aerospace Engineering
I am currently a PhD candidate in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at The University of Alabama and my advisor is Dr. Denis Aslangil, Assistant Professor at the Colorado School of Mines Mechanical Engineering department.
I study and research fluid mechanics and hope to better understand multi-species turbulent fluid flow by use of optimized, DNS numerical simulations. Additionally, I am interested in optimizing time-to-solution for these problems by leveraging GPU computing.
Physics
Master's Thesis: Neutrino Transport in Core-Collapse Supernovae (View PDF)
- During my time at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, I wrote a piece of software in Fortran called NODALEP (Neutrino Optical Depth and Luminosity Estimation Program) that allowed me to perform a study comparing the neutrino treatment of Agile-IDSA and that presented by H.-Th. Janka in his 2001 paper (Conditions for Shock Revival by Neutrino Heating in Core-Collapse Supernovae). IDSA was substituted with NODALEP (after discretization of Janka's relations) as the default neutrino treatment for the energetic feedback (charged current & neutral current interactions, among others) into the Agile hydrodynamics code and comparative studies were performed to gauge NODALEP's efficacy in supporting neutrino-driven shock revival.
Suite written exclusively for my Master's thesis with Dr. Almudena Arcones at TU Darmstadt
Source code for analysis: NODALEP
- Master's Talk: (View PDF)
- During my time at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, I wrote a piece of software in Fortran called NODALEP (Neutrino Optical Depth and Luminosity Estimation Program) that allowed me to perform a study comparing the neutrino treatment of Agile-IDSA and that presented by H.-Th. Janka in his 2001 paper (Conditions for Shock Revival by Neutrino Heating in Core-Collapse Supernovae). IDSA was substituted with NODALEP (after discretization of Janka's relations) as the default neutrino treatment for the energetic feedback (charged current & neutral current interactions, among others) into the Agile hydrodynamics code and comparative studies were performed to gauge NODALEP's efficacy in supporting neutrino-driven shock revival.
Bachelor's Thesis: Nonlinear Dynamics & the Intermittancy Route to Chaos (View PDF)
- My fascination with nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory led me to write my undergraduate thesis at UC Santa Cruz on the subject. I explored and studied the Lorenz equations, nonlinear stability analysis, and its application to ferroconvection (in the search for physical manifestations of nonlinearity):
- My fascination with nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory led me to write my undergraduate thesis at UC Santa Cruz on the subject. I explored and studied the Lorenz equations, nonlinear stability analysis, and its application to ferroconvection (in the search for physical manifestations of nonlinearity):
Mathematics
At UC Santa Cruz, I took courses in applied and pure mathematics with some really brilliant professors:
- Dr. Pascale Garaud - Intro to Dynamical Systems + Partial Differential Equations I+II
- Dr. Nicholas Brummel - Fluid Mechanics + Parallel Computing
- Dr. Ralph Abraham - Chaos, Fractals, and the Arts