ME Faculty Research Seminar: Jesse Capecelatro

Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering

2505 GG Brown

12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Lunch Provided

ME Faculty Seminar Zoom link (QR code below)

Passcode 703812

Abstract:

Turbulent flows made up of solid particles or liquid droplets can be found across a broad range of engineering and scientific disciplines. The nonlinear and multiscale nature of such flows often precludes a direct analytic solution, and instead we must turn to numerical simulations that leverage high-performance computing resources or coarse-grained simulations that rely on subgrid-scale models. In this talk, I will highlight contributions our group has made in simulation and data-driven modeling of turbulent multiphase flows, with applications spanning energy conversion, disease transmission, and space exploration.

Bio:

Jesse Capecelatro is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan. He received a Ph.D. from Cornell in 2014. Prior to joining the University of Michigan in 2016, he was a postdoc at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is a recipient of the NASA Early Stage Innovations Award, NSF CAREER Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, and the ASME Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal Award. His research is broadly under the realm of fluid mechanics, with an emphasis on multiphase flow, turbulence, reacting flows, and high-performance computing.