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Jie Chen, Ph.D. 2008

Dr. Jie Chen received his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech in December 2008.



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Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University

P
  eople with whom I have worked, both past and present.

Enjoying lunch at the Indian Garden just before Christmas Break 2008.

Current Group Members:

Bryan Abbamonte, Undergraduate Research Assistant

ESM class of 2009, Virginia Tech

Research: Chaotic dynamics of falling disks

Email: bjabbo24@vt.edu

Joseph Callahan, Undergraduate Research Assistant

ESM class of 2009, Virginia Tech

Research: Ghost rods in counter-rotating vortex flows

Email: joec3101@vt.edu

George Chamoun, Postdoctoral Research Associate

Ph.D. 2008 Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Southern California

Research: Reduced order modeling of vortex-dominated flows

Email: chamoun@vt.edu

Jie Chen, Research Associate

Ph.D. 2008 Engineering Mechanics, Virginia Tech

Research: Topological chaos in cavity and channel flows

Email: chen06@vt.edu

Xuemei Chen, Postdoctoral Research Associate

Ph.D. 2008 Mechanical Engineering, Washington Univ. in St. Louis

Research: Glass extrusion process analysis and optimization research

Email: xuemeich@vt.edu

Sebastian J. Eluvathingal, Research Associate in Mechanical Eng.

M.S. 2005 Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University

Research: Multi-physics modeling of weld pool solidification

Email: sebastianje@vt.edu

Mohsen Gheisarieha, Graduate Research Assistant

M.S. 2007 Applied Mechanics, Sharif University of Technology

Research: Topological chaos and fluid mixing

Email: gheisari@vt.edu

Pankaj Kumar, Graduate Research Assistant

M.S. 2006 Mechanical Engineering, Southern Illinois Univ. Carbondale

Research: Chaos and mixing in laminar flow

Email: pkumar06@vt.edu

Alireza Salmanzadeh, Graduate Teaching Assistant

M.S. 2007 Aerospace Engineering, Sharif University of Technology

Research: Point vortex models of bluff body wakes

Email: alireza@vt.edu

Kellen Shain, Undergraduate Research Assistant

ESM class of 2009, Virginia Tech

Research: Stirring viscous fluids

Email: kshain@vt.edu

Former Group Members:

If any of the information listed below is out of date, please let me know!

Stephen Biederman, Undergraduate Research Assistant 2008

Department of Engineering Science & Mechanics, Virginia Tech

Research: Stirring experiments in a viscous fluid

Current Position: Undergraduate student in ESM

J. Alec Calhoun, Undergraduate Research Assistant 2006-2008

Department of Engineering Science & Mechanics, Virginia Tech

Research: Stirring a viscous fluid; Vortex wakes

Current Position: Associate Engineer at Caterpillar

Baratunde A. Cola, Master of Science 2004

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University

Thesis: Optimization of a Pulsed Source-Sink Microscale Mixing Device

Current Position: Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech

Narcisse A. N'Dri, Postdoctoral Research Associate 2005-2006

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University

Research: Computational modeling of BioMEMS

Current Position: CFD Application Engineer at SEZ Austria

Carrie Kerna Reinholtz, Master of Science 2006

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University

Thesis: Experimental Analysis of Lid-Driven Cavity Flow with Split Boundaries

Current Position: Engineer at Arnold Engineering Development Center

Debasish Roy, Visiting Scholar 2007

Department of Engineering Science & Mechanics, Virginia Tech

Research: Bluff body wakes

Current Position: Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University

Zhijun 'Steven' Yu, Master of Science 2002

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University

Thesis: Cell-Based Nanophysiometer Microfluidic Modeling

Current Position: Sourcing and After Sales Manager at MacGregor Group