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Fluid Dynamics

• (Summer 2006-Fall 2009) ~ incorporated the lattice Boltzmann method (as the fluid solver replacing Navier Stokes) into the Immersed Boundary method in Fortran90. I then studied the speedup of this method parallelized in OpenMP and MPI, and MPI proved to have much better speedup. I use this parallel version of the code to visualize the influence red blood cells have on platelets motion in a blood vessel, specifically how something called lateral platelet motion occurs and creates a near-wall excess of platelets. This work is with my advisor, Aaron Fogelson.
• (Summer 2004) ~ modeled the behavior of eddies in ocean currents using POP during the summer of 04 in Los Alamos under the supervision of Matthew Hecht (LANL).
• (Fall 2003-Spring 2004) ~ worked with Dr. Darryl Holm (LANL) on the Camassa-Holm equation during my senior year of undergrad at HMC. Here's part of a paper on that work. Simulated soliton interactions using a psuedospectral method.