People

Principle Investigator

Gokul Pathikonda

Assistant Professor

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

[email protected]
480/965-9044
551 E Tyler Mall ERC 479 Tempe AZ 85281

Dr. Pathikonda studies turbulent fluid flows to understand natural and engineering phenomena using lab experiments. His expertise is in complex (reacting) mixing, high Re-flows, laser-based & spectroscopic techniques, etc.

Graduate Students

Isaiah E. Wall

Graduate Student (PhD), School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy (SEMTE) BS in Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University

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Research Interests: Mixing in boundary layers, Vortex-induced boundary layer separation

Krishna Kompally

Graduate Student (PhD), School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy (SEMTE) B. Tech. Mechanical Engineering, SASTRA University (India), 2020

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Research Interests: Turbulent mixing in particle-laden flows, Boundary layer separation

Sneharika Akula

Graduate Student (MS), School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy (SEMTE) B. Tech. Manipal Institute of Technology, 2021

Research Interests: Turbulent mixing in particle-laden flows

Vivek Nagaral

Graduate Student (MS), School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy (SEMTE)

Research Interests: Particle-laden turbulent flows

Undergraduate Students

Sai Grishma Basikala

FURI 2024

BS in Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University

Research Interests: Design of dynamic surface design for boundary layer studies

Justin Gruber

BS in Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University

Research Interests: Turbulent mixing in particle-laden flows

Lina Youssffi

NASA Space Grant 2024-25

BS in Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University

Research Interests: Boundary layer separation control

Annalise Chiera

BS in Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University

Research Interests: Boundary layer separation control

Mae Carrington

BS in Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University

Research Interests: Engineering dynamic surface array

Alumni

Cossack ‘Zac’ Rodrigues, Graduate Student (MS) 2023, currently working at Intel
Venkata Sai Sushant Paturu, Graduate Student (MS) 2023, currently working at Intel

Collaborators

Prof. Konrad Rykaczewski, Associate Professor, Arizona State University
Prof. Vrishank Raghav, Assistant Professor, Applied Fluids Research Group, Auburn University
Prof. Mohamed Houssem Kasbaoui, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
Prof. Mustafa Usta, Assistant Professor, Cleveland State University
Prof. Samuel Grauer, Assistant Professor, Penn State University
Prof. Devesh Ranjan, Professor, Shock Tube and Advanced Mixing Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology