People

PhD students

Jiarong Wu, PhD student, is working on wind waves using direct numerical simulations.

Dan Shaw, PhD student, is working on bubble dynamics at the air-water surface, including coalescence and bursting.

Dan Ruth, PhD student, is doing laboratory experiments on bubble dynamic and break-up in turbulence.

Sheetal Ramsurrun, PhD student, is working on wave modeling and gas transfer at the air-sea interface

Postdoctoral Researchers

Palas Kumar Farsoiya, numerical work on gas diffusion and phase change.

Martin Erinin, experimental work on spray transport.

Baptiste Néel, experimental work on spray generation by collective bubble bursting.

Visiting Graduate students

Alienor Riviere (spring 2019), from ENS, on bubble break-up. Alienor continues to work on turbulence and interface in Paris with Stephane Perrard.

Alexis Berny (Feb. to May 2019), from Sorbonne University, co-advised by Stephane Popinet and Thomas Seon on bubble bursting.

Undergrads

Demetra Yancopoulos (CEE) PEI Summer internship 2020

Ethan Lam (MAE) PEI Summer internship 2020

Alumni (PhD and Postdocs)

Wouter Mostert (postdoc from 2017 to 2020), numerical work on multiphase turbulence, nonlinear and breaking waves, using Basilisk. Wouter is now Assistant Professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology.

Stephane Perrard (Postdoc in 2017), experimental work on bubbles in turbulence. Stephane is now holding a Junior Research Chair at Ecole Normale Superieure, in Paris.

Yao Lai, was visiting PhD student from Howard Stone lab, MAE, and worked on bursting bubble dynamics (2017-2018). Yao is now a postdoctoral researcher at Lamont (Columbia University) and will start as faculty in the department of Geosciences at Princeton University in 2021.

Emre Turkoz, was visiting PhD student from Craig Arnold’ lab (MAE), working on modeling visco-elastic jest using Basilisk. Emre is now a Research Scientist at Exxon

Alumni (Undergraduates)

Kaitao (David) Tang (Junior, MAE, Independent Work fall 2019)

Chuxuan Zhao (Junior, MAE, Independent Work spring 2020)

Francis Odinakachukwu Ogoke (CBE) PEI summer internship 2017 and 2018. Senior Thesis 2019. On droplet impact on oil spills.

Cindy Song (CS/Economics). PEI summer intern 2019

Mench Santelices (MAE). PEI summer intern 2019

Alex Taylor-Lash (MAE). PEI summer intern 2019

Chris Ferrigine (MAE). MAE summer intern 2019

Anna Qin (CS). Undergraduate PEI Summer internship 2018.

Eric Dogariu (EE). Undergraduate PEI summer internship 2017.

Alumni (Visiting graduate students)

Marlone Vernet, Visiting Master student in fall 2019 from ENS Lyon, bubble dynamics in turbulence. Marlone is now a graduate student at ENS Ulm.

Nicolas Chapuis, Visiting Master student, from ENS, spring and summer 2018, on collective bubble dynamics.

Leila Dhar, Visiting Master student from ENSTA-Paris Tech, spring 2018, on air entrainment by liquid jets.