People
Principle Investigator
Gokul Pathikonda, PhD
Assistant Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy (SEMTE)
PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
MS in Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Graduate Students
Isaiah E. Wall
Graduate Student (PhD), School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy (SEMTE)
BS in Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University
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
Research Interests: Turbulent mixing in particle-laden flows, Boundary layer separation
Sneharika Akula
MORE 2025 (Spring)
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