Principal Investigator

Matthias Ihme

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and of Photon Science

Stanford University

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Stanford, 2008

M.Sc. Computational Engineering, University of Erlangen, Germany, 2002

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Mechanical Engineering, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany, 2000

Email: mihme@stanford.edu


Visiting Faculty

Hiroshi Terashima

Associate Professor

Hokkaido University

Email: htera@eng.hokudai.ac.jp

Nozomu Hashimoto

Associate Professor

Hokkaido University

Email: nozomu.hashimoto@eng.hokudai.ac.jp


Current Ph.D. Students

Name Information Research Interests
Filip Simeski Education: MS, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 2019.

ScB, Engineering, Brown University, 2017.


Email:  filip.simeski@stanford.edu

  • Molecular Simulations
  • Phase Behavior and Transport in Nanoporous Media
  • Supercritical Fluids
  • Carbon Sequestration
  • Energy Storage Systems
Priyanka Muhunthan Education: MS, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 2020.

BS, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 2018.


Email: pmuhun@stanford.edu

  • Supercritical fluids
  • Carbon capture and sequestration
  • Synchrotron X-ray techniques
  • Atomistic simulations
  • Nanomaterials
Wai Tong Education: MEng, Imperial College London, 2017.


Email: wtchung@stanford.edu

  • Supercritical flows
  • LES simulations of turbulent combustion
  • Data-driven/Machine Learning methods
Nguyen Ly Education:  BS, Aeronautical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.


Email: nguyenly@stanford.edu

  • Supercritical flows
  • Flow instabilities
  • Multi-phase flows
Matthew Bonanni Education:  MS, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 2021.

BS, Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University, 2019.


Email: mbonanni@stanford.edu

  • LES of propulsion systems
  • Multiphase flows
  • Supersonic combustion
  • Wildfire modeling
Arijit Majumdar Education: B.Tech M.Tech Dual Degree, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 2020.


Email: arijit01@stanford.edu

  • Heterogeneous multiscale modeling
  • Reaction kinetics
  • Supercritical fluids
  • X-ray spectroscopy
Khaled Younes Education:  M.A Sc., University of Waterloo, 2021.

B.A Sc., University of Waterloo, 2017.


Email: kyounes@stanford.edu

  • Reduced-order Modeling
  • High-speed flows
  • Supercritical fluids
Lauren Simitz Education: BS, Chemical Engineering, BS, Earth & Planetary Science, Northwestern University, 2021.


Email: lvsimitz@stanford.edu

  • Ignition and combustion phenomena
  • Propulsion systems
  • Supercritical, multiphase, and turbulent flows
David D. Wu Education: MS, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, 2023.


Email: daaw@stanford.edu

  • Data-driven methods
  • Physics-informed machine learning
  • Deep learning
  • Computer vision
James Hansen Education: BSE, Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University, 2021.


Email: jjhansen@stanford.edu

  • Data assimilation
  • High-speed propulsion systems
  • Combustion kinetics and simulation
Benyamin Krisna Education: B.Sc. RWTH, Mechanical Engineering, Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen, 2021.


Email: benkris@stanford.edu

  • Aeroacoustics
  • Combustion noise
  • Numerical modeling

Current Postdoctoral Fellows

Name Information Research Interests
Narendra Singh Education: Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, 2020.

M.S., Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, 2016.

B.Tech with Honors, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, 2014.


Email: narsingh@stanford.edu

  • Particle-laden high-speed flows
  • Strong-field ionization of condensed phases
  • Nonequilibrium modeling for gas transport in nano-pores
  • Nonequilibrium high-temperature chemistry
Davy Brouzet Education: Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, 2020.

M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), 2014.

B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), 2012.


Email: dbrouzet@stanford.edu

  • Turbulent combustion
  • Aero-acoustics and combustion noise
  • Direct numerical simulations and large-eddy simulations of reacting flows
Guillaume Vignat Education: Ph.D., Energetics (Combustion), Université Paris-Saclay, prepared at EM2C lab, CentraleSupélec, 2020.

M.Sc., Ecole Centrale Paris 2016.


Email: gvignat@stanford.edu

  • Combustion dynamics and control
  • LES simulation of turbulent combustion
  • Validation of reacting flow simulations
  • High temperature gas phase chemistry
Haoyuan Li Education: Ph.D., Physics, Stanford University, 2022.

B.S., Physics, Tsinghua University, 2016.


Email: hyli16@stanford.edu

  • Hard x-ray optics
  • Dynamics in disordered material such as glass transition and supercritical fluid
Karl Toepperwien Education: Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering (Numerical Combustion), EM2C laboratory/CNRS, CentraleSupélec, University Paris-Saclay, France, 2022.

M.Sc., Energy Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, 2017.

B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, 2015.


Email: karl.toepperwien@stanford.edu

  • LES of turbulent multiphase combustion
  • Multiphysics simulations
  • Low-order modeling
  • Wildfire modeling
Pushan Sharma Education: PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University, USA, 2022.

M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, 2016.

B.E., Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University, India, 2014.


Email: ps729@stanford.edu

  • Adaptive chemistry
  • LES-PDF of turbulent combustion
  • Application of Data-driven/ML methods in combustion
Jingcun Fan Education: Ph.D., Solid Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2020.

B.E., Process Equipment and Control Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 2015.


Email: jcfan@stanford.edu

  • Molecular simulations
  • Fluid transport under nano-confinement
  • Supercritical fluids

Rotation, Visiting and Undergraduate Students

Name Information Research Interests
Bassem Akoush Education: M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Cairo University, 2020.

B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Cairo University, 2018.


Email: bakoush@stanford.edu

  • High fidelity numerical modeling
Ryan Chen Education: B.S., Aeronautical Engineering and Applied Mathematics, United States Air Force Academy, 2022.


Email: rchen18@stanford.edu

  • Supersonic combustion
  • Propulsion system simulations
  • Chemical system model reduction
  • Graph-based modeling
Jesus Cervantes Education: Pursuing BS, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 2023.


Email: jcervan@stanford.edu

  • Ignition and combustion
  • Wildfires and emissions
  • Propulsion systems

Alumni

The first position after graduation is indicated.

  • Jack Guo, PhD 2023, Post-Doc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
  • Emeric Boigne, PhD 2022.
  • Thorsten Zirwes, Post-Doc 2022.
  • Steven Brill, PhD 2022, Post-Doc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
  • Narendra Singh, Post-Doc 2022, Post-Doc at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
  • Danyal Mohaddes, PhD 2022, Senior Research Scientist at FM Global.
  • Alexander Späh, Post-Doc 2021.
  • Eric Ching, PhD 2021, Researcher at Naval Research Laboratory.
  • Changxiao Shao, Post-Doc 2021, Assistant Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology.
  • Quentin Douasbin, Post-Doc 2020, Postdoctoral Fellow at CERFACS.
  • Alireza Ostadhossein, Post-Doc 2019, Battery Cell Engineer at Rivian.
  • Sadaf Sobhani, PhD 2019, Post-Doc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
  • Dong Li, Post-Doc 2019.
  • Michael Dodd, Post-Doc 2019, Physics Software Engineer at Private Division.
  • Qing Wang, PhD 2018, Software Engineer at Google.
  • Pavan Govindaraju, M. Sc. 2018.
  • Jeff Labahn, Post-Doc 2018, Simulation Development Engineer at Avametric.
  • Thomas Jaravel, Post-Doc 2018, Researcher at CERFACS.
  • Hao Wu, PhD 2018, Senior Software Engineering at Cruise Automation.
  • Peter Ma, PhD 2018, Software Engineer at Google.
  • Kevin Grogan, PhD 2017, Project Engineer at ATA Engineering.
  • Muralikrishna Raju, Post-Doc 2017.
  • Daniel Thomas Banuti, Post-Doc 2017, Senior Research Scientist at Cascade Technologies Inc.
  • Jared Dunnmon, PhD 2017, Post-Doc in Computer Science at Stanford University.
  • Jeffrey O’Brien, PhD 2017, Research Scientist at Cascade Technologies Inc.
  • Jeonglae Kim, Post-Doc 2017, Assistant Professor at Arizona State University School of Engineering of Matters Transport and Energy.
  • Luca Magri, Post-Doc 2016, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow at University of Cambridge.
  • Lucas Esclapez, Post-Doc 2016, Researcher at CERFACS.
  • Wai Lee Chan, PhD 2016, Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University
  • Benedetta Giulia Franzelli, Post-Doc 2015, CNRS researcher at Laboratoire EM2C, École Centrale Paris.
  • Aymeric Vié, Post-Doc 2015, Assistant Professor at École Centrale Paris.
  • Mehdi B. Nik, Post-Doc 2015, Data Scientist at Omniscience.
  • Jean-Pierre Hickey, Post-Doc 2014, Assistant Professor at University of Waterloo.
  • Yu Lv, PhD 2016, Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University.
  • Yuntao Chen, PhD 2015, Combustion Technology Engineer at Siemens Power and Gas.
  • Yee Chee See, PhD 2014, Research Engineer at Convergent Science Inc.
  • Sean Torrez, co-advised PhD 2012, Principal Engineer at Physical Sciences Inc.
  • Emre Sozer, co-advised PhD 2009, Principal Engineer at Siemens.

Past visitors

  • Alvin Lee, Stanford University (2022)
  • Ethan Li, Stanford University (2020)
  • Haiyue Li, Peking University (2019)
  • Jili Wei, Tsinghua University (2019)
  • Nikolaos Perakis, Technical University of Munich (2019)
  • Wenwen Xie, Tsinghua University (2019)
  • Zhilong Cheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University (2018)
  • Jackie Chan, Stanford University (2017)
  • Xinyi Huang, Tsinghua University (2017)
  • Alessandro Stagni, Politecnico di Milano (2015)
  • Michael Evans, University of Adelaide (2015)
  • Milan Pelletier, Ecole Centrale Paris (2014)
  • Franziska Hunger, TU Freiberg (2013)
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