Recent News
2021
January 1, 2020: Gokul Pathikonda is leaving our lab to become an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University. While we are sad to see him leave the lab, we congratulate him and wish him the best of luck.
2020
September 25, 2020: STAM Lab was visited by DOE Under Secretary of Energy for Science Paul Dabbar.
July 28, 2020: Congratulations Dan Fries for successfully defending his PhD dissertation entitled “Entrainment, Mixing, and Ignition in Single and Multiple Jets in a Supersonic Crossflow”.
July 21, 2020: We congratulate Justin Yarrington for presenting his Master's Thesis entiteled“Numerical and Experimental Analyses of Room and High Temperature Dense, Granular Flows Coupled to Flow Property Measurements for Solar Thermal Energy Storage”/i>.
July 15, 2020: Join us in congratulating John Carter for successfully defending his PhD dissertation entitled “Statistical and Temporal Analysis of Shock-Driven Instability Through Simultaneous Density and Velocity Measurements”.
July 2020: Congratulations Jacob Cloward for defending his Master's thesis and graduating from Georgia Tech's Graduate Internship program.
June 2020: Our research on Supernovas was recently highlighted! Check out interviews at GATECH and Phys.org
2019
August 23, 2019: We congratulate Cameron Ahmad for successfully proposing his PhD research plans on “Turbulent Mixing Between Liquids of Disparate Viscosity”.
July 11, 2019: We congratulate Sandeep Pidaparti for defending his PhD dissertation entitled “Heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics of supercritical carbon dioxide flow”.
July 9, 2019: Congratulations Ben Musci for successfully proposing his PhD research plans on “The Blast Driven Instability: A new meter-scale experimental facility and preliminary results”.
June 25, 2019: Congratulations Stephen Johnston for successfully proposing his PhD research plans on “Rayleigh-Bénard convection at high Ra - Facility design and initial exploration of the existence of an Ultimate Regime”.
June 2019: Congratulations Dan Fries and the rest of Team Sustain Alive, on a successful rocket launch in the Spaceport America Cup. The team placed first in their category, among earning other recognitions. Click here to read the full article published by Georgia Tech. "
March 2019: Join us in congratulating Miad Karimi and Brad Ochs, as their manuscript titled "Measurement of methane autoignition delays in carbon dioxide and argon diluents at high pressure conditions" has been accepted for publication in Combustion and Flame.
March 8, 2019: Congratulations to Mohammad Mohaghar, who defended his PhD dissertation titled "Effects of Initial Conditions and Mach Number on Turbulent Mixing Transition of Shock-driven Variable-density Flow".
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.
2017
November 20, 2017: Mohammad Mohaghar presented the work from the Shock Tube group on “Investigation of Atwood ratio influence on turbulent mixing transition of a shock-driven variable density flow after reshock” at the APS-DFD 2017 conference.
November 20, 2017: Mark Mikhael presented the work from the Gas Tunnel group on “Self-similarity in high Atwood number Rayleigh-Taylor experiments” at the APS-DFD 2017 conference.
November 10, 2017: Congratulations to Dan Fries on successfully proposing his PhD research plans on “Experimental Multi-Scale Analysis of Supersonic Jets in Crossflow: Mixing and Combustion”.
October 2017: STAM Lab welcomes the new graduate student Cameron Ahmad. He finished his Masters at Johns Hopkins University, and will be studying turbulent mixing of reacting jets.
September 1, 2017: Congratulations Dorrin Jarrahbashi, who will be starting as a faculty at Texas A&M University. Dorrin Jarrahbashi Faculty Webpage
July 2017: STAM Lab welcomes post-doc Gokul Pathikonda, who recently finished his PhD at University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.
May 2017: STAM Lab welcomes the new graduate student Alon Katz.He will be joining the Supercritical CO2 research group.
2016
May 24, 2016 : U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz visited the lab. Read the article here for more information about his visit.
April, 2016: Congratulations David Reilly for being selected to receive the Sigma Xi Best Master's Thesis Award.
May 2016 : Devesh Ranjan has been invited to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's 2016 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium in September. Click here for more information about the symposium.
April 2016 : Congratulations to Benjamin Musci for being a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program award. The NSF GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science and engineering disciplines who are pursuing research-based doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.
April 2016 : Benjamin Musci received and accepted the DOE NNSA Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship award. The DOE NNSA SSGF provides excellent financial benefits and professional development opportunities to students pursuing a Ph.D. in fields of study that solve complex science and engineering problems critical to stewardship science.
March 31, 2016: Congratulations Dorrin Jarrahbashi and Taegyu Kang for winning first place in the poster competition at this year's Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles Symposium.