I have always been fascinated with flight. Growing up, I spent much of my time experimenting with gliders, planes, and rockets, which inspired me to pursue an engineering education here at Caltech. I am now a junior majoring in mechanical engineering and minoring in aerospace. This summer, I worked with Professor Guillaume Blanquart to simulate atmospheric entry into Jupiter by solving a hypersonic reacting flow over the Galileo entry probe using a multi-physics CFD code. This project motivated my current interests in computational fluid dynamics, compressible flow theory, and hypersonic aerodynamics, the fields in which I plan to specialize during the remainder of my undergraduate career. After Caltech, I plan to pursue a graduate degree in mechanical engineering to pursue research in fluids. Outside of academics, I enjoy running, cycling, and reading.
I have always been fascinated with flight. Growing up, I spent much of my time experimenting with gliders, planes, and rockets, which inspired me to pursue an engineering education here at Caltech. I am now a junior majoring in mechanical engineering and minoring in aerospace. This summer, I worked with Professor Guillaume Blanquart to simulate atmospheric entry into Jupiter by solving a hypersonic reacting flow over the Galileo entry probe using a multi-physics CFD code. This project motivated my current interests in computational fluid dynamics, compressible flow theory, and hypersonic aerodynamics, the fields in which I plan to specialize during the remainder of my undergraduate career. After Caltech, I plan to pursue a graduate degree in mechanical engineering to pursue research in fluids. Outside of academics, I enjoy running, cycling, and reading.