People

Here are the people currently involved in the UBC-Okanagan CFD Lab:

 Faculty:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Joshua Brinkerhoff
Associate Professor
Office: 4217 EME Building
Telephone: 250-807-8238
Email: joshua.brinkerhoff@ubc.ca

Graduate students:

 

Sebastiano Stipa (PhD student)

  • Development of CFD methodologies for the simulation of wind farm flows in realistic atmospheric conditions.
  • Development of reduced-order models of the atmospheric boundary layer coupled with wind farm engineering models in order to predict blockage effects due to gravity waves and farm-farm wake interactions.

 

 

Kasper Juel Petersen (PhD student)

  • Development of kinetic models and lattice-Boltzmann methods for simulating thermal flows with phase-change.
  • Modelling and spill-simulation of the nucleate, transitional, and film boiling regimes in cryogenic fluids.
  • Atmospheric dispersion modelling and simulation of natural gas plumes that occur after spills, including effects of humidity, coriolis forces, and complex terrain.

 

 

Cole Christianson (PhD student)

  • LES simulations of aerosol transport in hospital environments for understanding risk associated with airborne disease transmission

 

 

 

Arjun Ajay (PhD student)

  • Modeling and simulation of the induction zone and far field wake recovery of wind turbine farms

 

 

 

Debshankar Ghosh (PhD student)

  • LES of heated fluid flow inside textured channels for heat-transfer enhancement
  • Stability analysis of biological flows using finite element solvers

 

 

Alejandra García Morales (PhD student)

  • Modelling non-equilibrium and heterogenous phase change in cryogenic fluids

 

 

 

Armin Sheidani (PhD student)

  • Passive control devices for enhancing wake mixing in wind farms

 

 

 

Yara Omar (PhD student)

  • Modelling of high-pressure releases of hydrogen/natural gas blends
  • Hydrogen detonation/deflagration transition and flammability risk

 

 

Marjan Sharifi (PhD student)

  • Particles-on-demand lattice Boltzmann method
  • Dynamics of real gas mixtures for hydrogen safety

 

 

 

 

 

Kyle Workun (MASc student)

  • System integration in a hydrogen/battery hybrid rail (Hydrail) rail switcher locomotive

 

 

Andrew Mills  (MASc student)

  • Fluid-structure interaction of bluff bodies

 

 

 

Dominic Wang (MASc student)

  • Transition modelling for low-Reynolds number airfoils

 

 

 

Andres Escobedo (MASc student)

  • GPU-acceleration of TOSCA (the group’s in-house CFD code)

 

 

Postdoc fellows:

 

Saeed Rahbarimanesh

  • Carbon dioxide extraction in non-reacting/reacting multi-species mixtures of combustion products
  • Thermo-sensitive phase-change processes in non-cryogenic/cryogenic turbomachinery (e.g. LNG, LN2, etc.)
  • LNG/Diesel fuel systems
  • Turbulence in multi-phase/cavitating flows
  • ML/AI-CFD -based design and optimization


Visiting students:

 

Donya Mousavi (PhD student)

  • Mass transport in urban atmospheric boundary layers

 

 

Alumni:

Chun-Sheng Wang (Postdoc)

  • Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM)
  • Turbulence modeling and simulation
  • Artificial intelligence (AI) aided CFD
  • Internal cooling, thermal management, and  high efficiency heat exchanger design
  • Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) for bioengineering

Ahmed Ali Mahmoud Hussien (Postdoc)

  • Carbon dioxide extraction in non-reacting/reacting multi-species mixtures of combustion products
  • Coherent vortical structures in multi-species compressible flows of real gases

Umair Ismail (Postdoc)

  • Use of computer simulations to investigate non-equilibrium effects in rough-wall flows
  • Reynolds-averaged modeling of complex flows using novel turbulence models
  • Algebraic structure based modeling
  • Blending of hydrogen in natural gas pipelines

 Nidhi Sharma (Postdoc)

  • Analysis and development of finite difference schemes
  • Direct numerical simulation of incompressible and compressible flow
  • Transition to turbulence

Ehsan Tahmasebi (Postdoc)

  • Simulation of multiphase, cryogenic liquid natural gas during storage, transfer, and spillage in heavy-duty transportation and marine applications
  • Numerical investigation of aerosol propagation and deposition in industrial and mining facilities, with a view towards evaluating abatement methods

Shahab Zeraati Dizjeh (PhD student)

  • DNS of buoyancy-driven flows inside heated vertical channels. Heat transfer enhancement in turbulent flows by means of tailored surface geometries

Mohammad Haji Mohammadi (PhD student)

  • Simulation of turbulent dispersed bubbly flows by developing in-house CFD code. Implementing immersed boundary method with to simulate the flows in complex domains

Saeed Rahbarimanesh (PhD student)

  • Thermo-sensitive phase-change processes in non-cryogenic/cryogenic turbomachinery (e.g. LNG, LN2, etc.)
  • Turbulence in multi-phase/cavitating flows

Nima Moallemi (PhD)

  • DNS of laminar/turbulent sudden expansions
  • Turbulent hydrodynamics of fluidized bed reactors

Najiba Akther (MASc student)

  • Computational and Experimental Evaluation of Leading-Edge Droops for Performance Enhancement of Wind Turbine Rotors

Jesse Morales (MASc student)

  • Investigation into jet ejector optimization for material transport. Co-Supervised by Dr. Sina Kheirkhah

Daniyal Ahmed Khan (MASc student)

  • Laminar-to-turbulent transition in compressor cascades

Saeed Nazari (MASc student)

  • Power generation from localized wind energy on expressways

Aaron Stroda (MASc student)

  • Modeling and simulation of liquid natural gas tanks with the particular interest of how we treat complicated mixtures during phase change

Ryan Harder (MASc student)

  • Turboexpander modelling and performance optimization

Deepanshi Sisodiya (MASc student)

  • Computational modelling of Flow in Supersonic Ejectors for Design Optimization using unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier Stokes simulation
  • Co-supervised by Dr. Sina Kheirkhah (UBC Okanagan)

Amitvikram Dutta (MASc)

  • CFD study of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
  • Co-supervised with Dr. Andre Phillion (McMaster)

Siddharth Siddhu (MASc student)

  • Simulation of water-jet cutting process
  • Co-supervised with Dr. Lukas Bichler (UBC Okanagan)

Guoyu Zhang (MASc)

  • Simulation of the fast-fill process of compressed natural gas (CNG) into Type-4 cylinders
  • Co-supervised with Dr. Sunny Li (UBC Okanagan)

Jonathan Loewen (Undergraduate (UG) student)

  • post processing and automating the processing of slug flow in a rotating Taylor tube CFD results using ParaView and python.

Andres Escobedo (UG)

  • Using OpenFoam, CAD software, and various meshing techniques to simulate internal flows

Ian Ho (UG )

  • Multiphase simulation of Taylor flow in a rotating capillary tube using OpenFOAM

Salman Ahmad (UG)

  • Airborne disease transmission in hospital trauma rooms

Shriya Agrawal (UG)

  • Accelerating CFD codes used for cryogenic flows with phase change

Kyle Halliday (UG)

  • Aerodynamic design of a portable, low-power vital oxygen sensor for sports applications

Akshay Sapra (UG)

  • Validation of OpenFOAM and Palabos for a backwards-facing step

Zhonghao Li (UG)

  • Simulation of solid/liquid multiphase laminar flow in a sudden expansion

Raphael Nowak (UG)

  • Simulation of solid/liquid multiphase laminar flow in a sudden expansion

Yudong Liu (Visiting PhD student from )

  • Flow in on-off valves

Kasper Juel Petersen (Visiting MASc student from Aalborg University, Denmark)

  • Comparison of transition models for predicting low-Reynolds flow on a NACA0018 airfoil

Sindhuja Kashetty (Visiting UG from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India)

  • Proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) routines in Python for mode decomposition of DNS data

Hari K. Tirukkovalluri (Visiting UG from National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India)

  • Parallelization of a Python-based POD code; DNS of a swept SD7003 airfoil

Indu Kand Deo (Visiting UG from IIT Kharagpur, India)

  • Combining machine learning techniques with high-fidelity numerical simulations to yield a data-augmented approach to predicting turbulence in buoyancy driven flows

Peter Zhao (Visiting UG from National University of Singapore)

  • Design of a inlet volute for a novel radial turboexpander

Bo Li (Visiting PhD student from Tsinghua Univ., China)

  • Aerodynamics of commercial vehicles with CNG fuel systems
  • Artificial neural network optimization of aerodynamic flows

Anupam Mishra (Visiting UG from Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati)

  • Experimental measurements of total pressure behind a 12-lobed mixer with swirling inflow conditions