Environmental Fluid Mechanics (EFM)Research Group
Current Students
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Farid Karimpour (PhD student- expected 2014)
For more information on Farid's research on stratified turbulence, please visit webpage
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Jordan Wilson (PhD student - expected 2014, MS completed 2010) -
Kyung-Seop Shin (PhD student - expected 2014, MS completed 2011)
Kyung-Seop is co-advised by Dr. Christopher Thornton and Dr. Karan Venayagamoorthy as his research focuses on experiments in conjunction with numerical simulations of meandering channels.
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Amrapalli Garanaik (PhD student - expected 2016)
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Jian Zhou (PhD student - expected 2016)
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Dapo Aseperi (PhD student - expected 2016)
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Jeremy Carlston (MS student - expected 2015)
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Ajithshanthar Nithianantham (MS student - expected 2015)
Former Students
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Ben Mater (PhD student - completed July 2014)
Ben completed his PhD studies in Hydraulic Engineering/Fluid Mechanics. His research focused on fundamental aspects of turbulence in stratified flows as well as shear flow turbulence. His PhD work revolved around developing improved paramterizations of turbulence in geopyhsical flows. He obtained his BS and Master in Engineering degrees in civil engineering (both with highest honors) from University of Louisville in Kentucky in 2006. Ben has also served as a graduate teaching asssistant for one year in the CEE Department and has served as guest lecturer in several graduate courses taught by Dr. Karan. He is now a postdoctoral scholar in the NOAA GFDL at Princeton University. -
Hyeyun Ku (PhD student - completed December 2011)
Hyeyun completed her PhD in Hydraulic Engineering/Fluid Mechanics. Her research focuses on understanding turbulent mixing and transport in environmental flows (rivers, estuaries, the ocean and atmosphere) using hig resolution numerical simulations. Her dissertation was entitled "Mixing and transport of passive scalars around obstacles in environmental flows ". Hyeyun obtained her BS and MS degrees in civil engineering from the Chenbuk National University in Korea. She is currently a senior research fellow at Seoul National University, in South Korea. -
Taylor Barnett (MS student - completed May 2013)
Taylor finished his MS thesis t in Hydraulic Engineering/Fluid Mechanics. He worked on ptimizing the hdyraulic residence times of small drinking water systems on a research project funded by the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment (CDPHE). Taylor performed tracer studies, computational modeling and field studies as part of his research towards his MS thesis. He is current an engineering technical services consultant at Innovyze in Broomfield, Colorado. -
Jongseok Cho (MS student - completed May 2013) -
Ali El-Turki (MS student - completed May 2013)Ali completed his MS studies in Hydraulic Engineering/Fluid Mechanics. His research focused on transient flow analysis in pipelines and open channels. Flow transients introduce large pressure forces and rapid flow acceleration in water systems and can cause pipe raptures, system fatigue, or intrusion of pollutant water into the system.
Ali is from Libya and was funded by a national scholarship from his country. He came to Colorado in 2011. He obtained his BS in civil engineering from the University of Garyounis in Libya in 2003
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Justin Kattnig (MS student - completed May 2014)
Justin Kattnig completed his MS degree in May 2014. He MS thesis was entitled ``USE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES TO OPTIMIZE THE RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION OF DRINKING WATER CONTACT TANKS". He obtained his BS in Civil Engineering at CSU (Summa cum laude) in 2013. Justin is currently serving as a consulting engineer in Colorado.
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Simon Schaad (MS student - completed December 2012)Simon completed his MS thesis in Hydraulic Engineering/Fluid Mechanics. His research focused on understanding flow structures in environmental flow. He used direct numerical simulations (DNS) of stably stratified turbulence for his research.
Simon is from Alaska where he returns to every summer to commercial fish for sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay. He came to Colorado in 2008 and obtained his BS in civil engineering from Colorado State University in December, 2010. He was also a lab TA for CIVE300 Fluid Mechanics which he enjoyed immensly. He is currently a CFD engineer at Alden Labs in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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Zachary Taylor (MS student - completed May 2012) -
Cole Davis (MS student - completed May 2012) -
Zach Elliot (MS student- completed December 2010) -
Jordan Wilson (MS - completed December 2010, currenlty PhD student in Fluid Mechanics) -
Amy Xu (MS student - completed February 2010)
Undergraduate Students (2008-Current)
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Taylor Barnett(BS student - completed May 2011, currently MS student in EFM group) -
Tim Sellers (BS student - completed May 2011) -
Krishna Chaitanya (IIT-Madras - completed BTech/MTech student in Ocean Engineering) -
Baird Langenbrunner (BS - Brown University, Currently Phd student - University of Colorado, Boulder)