Undergraduate research at Purdue’s Aerospace Sciences Laboratory on how varying wall temperature affects hypersonic boundary layers. Completed and presented a sharp cone transition study; now extending the work to a flared cone, pairing STABL computations with BAM6QT wind tunnel experiments.
Tools: STABL, DPLR2D, PSE-Chem, MATLAB, Tecplot
Leading the aerodynamics team of a student club designing and building a UAV around a pulsejet engine, from conceptual sizing through CAD and CFD analysis.
Skills: Aircraft design, CAD, CFD, team leadership
One year with the Purdue Undergraduate Rocket Propulsion Laboratory designing a turbopump-fed rocket engine. Worked on the injector plate design and served as head of manufacturing for my subteam.
Skills: Propulsion design, design for manufacturing
Industry partnership with Stratolaunch through The Data Mine at Purdue. Condensed several high-level research papers into technical deliverables for Stratolaunch engineers.
Skills: Technical research, technical communication, teamwork
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My first research talk: a computational study on a sharp cone of how varying wall temperature affects hypersonic boundary-layer transition, using STABL with PSE-Chem.