The Nonlinear Dynamics and Vibration Laboratory: People
Director
Current Students and Mentees
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS/VISITING SCHOLAR
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Dushyanth Sirivolu Started Fall 2018 UAV Engine Ingestion Research |
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GRADUATE STUDENTS
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Noah Broski Started Fall 2021 Blade tip rub research |
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Yuqin Guan Started Fall 2022 Analysis of piecewise linear nonlinear systems |
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Gabriel Jackson Started Fall 2021 Blade tip rub and hypersonics research |
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Christopher Keener Started Fall 2016 Blade damping and mistuning experiments |
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Troy Krizak Started Fall 2020 Blade damping modeling and reduced order models |
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Robin Reifsnyder Started Fall 2019 Blade tip rub research |
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Mitchell Wong Started MS Fall 2023 UAS ingestion into aircraft engines |
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UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AND STEM OUTREACH EFFORTS
Undergraduate Thesis Students
Undergraduate Researchers participating in "Translating Engineering Research to K-8" (TEK8)
Allie Renshaw
Arushi Sharma
Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Mentees
Isaiah Hazelwood
Rey Jaramillo
Hadeel Qadri
Graduates and Past Mentees
| 1, | Valeria Pinto (Visiting Scholar): Integrating contact mistuning with blade mistuning in cyclic systems, November 2022-August 2023 |
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| 2. | Eric Kurstak, (Postdoc): Energy harvester research, NSF I-Corps, turbomachinery experiments, turbomachinery analysis, and UAS ingestion into aircraft engines, 2021-2022. |
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| 3. | Yiliu Weng (Visiting Scholar), Harmonic Balance Method for Modeling Piecewise Linear Nonlinear Systems and Transient Substructuring Analysis, August 2017-July 2018. |
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| 1. | Meng-Hsuan Tien, Thesis: Analyzing and Exploiting the Dynamics of Complex Piecewise Linear Nonlinear Systems, 2020, Taiwan Government Scholarship to Study Abroad, Future Academic Scholar Training (FAST) Fellowship, OSU Presidential Fellowship, Assistant Professor at National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan) and Director of the Nonlinear & Structural Dynamics Laboratory. |
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| 2. | Eric Kurstak, Thesis: Experimental and Computational Investigation of a Rotating Bladed Disk under Synchronous and Non-Synchronous Vibration, 2021, 2019 ASME IGTI Young Engineer Turbo Expo Participation Award, Future Academic Scholar Training (FAST) Fellowship (Instructor of record for ME2030), OSU Mechanical Engineering Presidential Fellowship nominee, 1st place in TCVS student paper competition for the Vibrations conference at the 2020 IDETC, Researcher at GE Aviation. |
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| 3. | Troy Lyons, Thesis: Stress State Characterization of Ti-6Al-4V Fan Blades under Impact Loading, 2022, Aerospace Engineer at NASA Glenn Research Center. |
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| 1. | Tianyi Hu, Thesis: Modeling & Analysis of Bladed Disks with Cracks and Mistuning, 2018. |
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| 2. | Gregory Altamirano, Thesis: Friction Response Approximation Method for Nonlinear Systems, 2020, SROP Fellowship, OSU COE Graduate Fellowship. |
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| 3. | Chris Keener, Thesis: Design and Dynamic Characterization of the OSU Rotor 67 Blisk for Future Damping and Mistuning Studies at Design Speed, 2021. |
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| 4. | Amir Shahhousseini, Advised MS Research remotely during pandemic, 2nd Place in MSNDC Student Paper Competition at the 2021 IDETC, 2022. |
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| 5. | Jacob Veney: Investigation of the BAA Method’s Applications for Vibration Energy Harvesting, 2023, Completed NSF I-Corps National program, Distinguished University Fellowship, ENGIE-Axium Fellowship |
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| 6. | Rashid Mattar, Comparison of Bird and UAV Ingestions Into a Fan Assembly Model, 2023 |