Dr. Venkat Raman, an assistant professor of aerospace engineering, received a $400,000 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, a prestigious honor which recognizes promising young faculty members. This five-year grant will be used to develop new mathematical tools for simulating the complex physics inside aircraft engines and similar devices.
While the primary goal is to develop engine design constraints for minimal environmental footprint, the computational tools will provide engineers a framework for modeling so-called multi-physics, multi-scale, flow phenomena. Atmospheric flow patterns that cause weather and climate changes, gas turbines used for power generation, chemical reactors, and spacecrafts re-entering earth's atmosphere all exhibit this multi-physics, multi-scale complexity. The focus of this work is to develop a new modeling framework based on error minimization and optimal estimation theory.
Raman joined the Cockrell School of Engineering in 2005. He graduated from Iowa State University with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering, and was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at the NASA/Stanford University Center for Turbulence Research.
