People

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Principal Investigator

Dr. San has been an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at OSU since 2015. He received his bachelors in aeronautical engineering from Istanbul Technical University in 2005, his masters in aerospace engineering from Old Dominion University in 2007, and his Ph.D. in engineering mechanics from Virginia Tech in 2012. He worked as a postdoc at Virginia Tech from 2012-'14, and then from 2014-'15 at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He is a recipient of U.S. Department of Energy 2018 Early Career Research Program Award in Applied Mathematics. His field of study is centered upon the development, analysis and application of advanced computational methods in science and engineering with a particular emphasis on fluid dynamics across a variety of spatial and temporal scales. His Erdős number is 4.

Omer San, PhD

Associate Professor

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Oklahoma State University

201 General Academic Building

Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078 USA

Phone: (405) 744-2457

E-mail: osan@okstate.edu | cfdlab.osu@gmail.com


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I am Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Oklahoma State University, where I was tenured in 2021. Since 2015 at OSU, I have taught graduate and undergraduate courses in engineering mathematics, computational methods, numerical analysis, data assimilation, and computational fluid dynamics. I received my PhD in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech. My field of study is centered upon the development, analysis and application of advanced computational methods in science and engineering with a particular emphasis on the development of hybrid physics-AI/ML methodologies in fluid dynamics across a variety of spatial and temporal scales. I am a recipient of the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), 2018 Early Career Research Program (ECRP) Award to develop scientific machine learning algorithms for multiscale closure modeling of turbulent flows. I have been a PI or co-PI on research grants from the DOE, NSF, NASA, ASHRAE, Oklahoma Center for Advancement of Science & Technology, the Research Council of Norway, and the NVIDIA Corporation, and my work has been recognized through several distinguished awards and nominations including OSU 2022 Distinguished Early Career Faculty Award and CEAT 2020 Excellent Scholar Award.

Current Group

Ashraf Kassem

PhD Student

Pedram H Dabaghian

PhD Student


Shafi Romeo

MS Student

Alumni

I have been privileged to have worked with wonderful and brilliant graduate and undergraduate students over the years.

PhDs

Romit Maulik

PhD 2019, MAE

Google Scholar

Dissertation: Data-driven sub-grid model development for large eddy simulations of turbulence

Recipient of the CEAT 2018 Outstanding Graduate Student Award

Recipient of the 2019 Margaret Butler Fellowship Award; joined Argonne National Laboratory

Shady E. Ahmed

PhD 2022, MAE

Google Scholar

Dissertation: Model-data fusion in digital twins of large scale dynamical systems

Recipient of the CEAT 2022 Outstanding Graduate Student Award

Recipient of the 2022 PNNL Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship Award; joined Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Suraj Pawar

PhD 2022, MAE

Google Scholar

Dissertation: Physics-guided machine learning for turbulence closure and reduced order modeling

Recipient of the CEAT 2021 Outstanding Graduate Student Award

Joined Shell Global Solutions, Houston as an Artificial Intelligence Engineer



Master's

Harsha Vaddireddy

MS 2020, MAE

Google Scholar

Thesis: Identification of physical processes via data driven methods

Mashfiqur Rahman

MS 2019, MAE

Google Scholar

Thesis: Reduced order modeling of geophysical flows using physics-based and data-driven modeling techniques

Mansoor Ahmed

MS 2019, MAE

Google Scholar

Thesis: Numerical investigation of air mixer performance for HVAC testing applications

Wesley Glenn

MS (Non-Thesis) 2017, MAE

Project: Reduced order modeling of cardiovascular flows: fluid-structure interactions and constitutive modeling

BS Students

Jack Cook

BS 2019, MAE

Recipiant of CEAT 2019 Undergraduate Research Scholarship

Nick Nelsen

BS 2018, MAE

Recipient of the NSF 2018 Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP); joined Caltech

Group Photos

APS DFD, November 2020, Virtual

APS DFD, November 2019, Seattle

APS DFD, November 2018, Atlanta

APS DFD, November 2019, Seattle

APS DFD November 2019, Seattle

APS DFD November 2017, Denver

Join the team!

We do have possible openings for prospective graduate students interested in broad areas of fluid dynamics, numerical analysis, data assimilation, model reduction, machine learning and computing. If interested, please send an email to Dr. Omer San.