News
2018
December 2018: Devesh Ranjan has been selected as the new Associate Chair for Research in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. For more information about the position, read the full article here.
November 2018: The 71st annual meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics was in Atlanta. Several members of the lab assisted in hosting the event and presented their work. 14 presentations were made in reference to ongoing work at STAM Lab. For more information on the presentations Search the event program.
November 9, 2018: Congratulations John Carter for successfully proposing his PhD research plans on “Statistical and Temporal Analysis of Shock-Driven Instability Through Simultaneous Density and Velocity Measurements”.
October 2018: Congratulations Sandeep Pidaparti, Dorrin Jarrahbashi, Taegyu Kang, and Devesh Ranjan, who's paper entitled "Ceramic-metal composites for heat exchangers in concentrated solar power plants", was published in Nature. Read the publication here.
July 2018: Congratulations Miad Karimi, Brad Ochs, Wenting Sun, and Devesh Ranjan, who's paper entitled "Measurements of Methane Autoignition Delays in a Shock Tube under Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Conditions," presented by Miad Karimi at the 2018 Spring Technical Meeting of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute was selected to receive the 2018 George H. Markstein Best Paper Award.
June 7, 2018: Congratulations Mark Mikhaeil for successfully proposing his PhD research plans on “Statistics and structure of fully turbulent Rayleigh-Taylor mixing at large Atwood number”.
June 2018: Devesh Ranjan has been selected to serve as part of the 2018-2019 Emerging Leaders Program at Georgia Tech. Click here for more information.
May 2018: Woodruff School Associate Professor Devesh Ranjan has been selected to serve as one of five 2018-2020 Provost Teaching and Learning Fellows by the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Dean of the College of Engineering. Read the full article here.
April 2018: Mark Mikhaeil and Ben Musci have been selected to participate in the joint NNSA and CEA/DAM of France Postdoctoral Partnership Program Workshop.
April 2018: STAM Lab and Georgia Tech hosted the Department of Energy workshop for high-temperature heat exchangers. The workshop was attended by members of academia, industry, and DOE labs.
April 2018: Congratulations to Sandeep Pidaparti on his new position at National Energy Technology Lab (NETL) in Pittsburgh, PA. He will be starting his new position mid-month.
March 2018: Sandeep Pidaparti presented his work on "Thermal-Hydraulic Performance of Compact Diffusion Bonded Heat Exchanger Geometries using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide as the Working Fluid" at the 6th International Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles Symposium.
March 2018: Miad Karimi presented his work on "Measurement of Methane Autoignition Delays in a Shock Tube under Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Conditions" at the 6th International Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles Symposium.
March 2018: Sam Lim presented his work on "Flow of Supercritical CO2 through a Converging-Diverging Nozzle" at the 6th International Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles Symposium.
March 16, 2018: Congratulations Miad Karimi for successfully proposing his PhD research plans on “Investigation of Autoignition Delays in a Shock Tube under Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Conditions”.
February 19, 2018: Congratulations to Mohammad Mohaghar on successfully proposing his PhD research plans on “Initial condition and incident shock Mach number effects on turbulent mixing transition in a shock-driven variable-density flow”.
February 16, 2018: Congratulations to Gokul Pathikonda for winning the Stanley Weiss Outstanding Dissertation award for his work on “Inner-outer interactions in a rough-wall turbulent boundary layer”. This is the annual departmental award from the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.