Antonino Ferrante
Principal Investigator
Dr. Ferrante leads the CFM lab and enjoys working with students on problems of fluid mechanics while helping them to grow scientifically and to explore their full potential. He recently discovered a new law of aerodynamics and spends his free time summiting mountains and playing guitar while pondering more solvable mysteries of fluid dynamics.
Ph.D. Students
Mira Tipirneni
PhD Researcher
Mira focuses on fluids and computational methods for fluids. She is currently testing and validating a new method for simulating incompressible flows which would cut down on simulation time. She is a recipient of the Gordon C. Oates Endowed Fellowship from UW Engineering. In her free time she enjoys skiing, making music, building things, and volunteering with Seattle Makers.
Nithin Adidela
PhD Researcher
Nithin focuses on fluid mechanics and is a first-year master’s student. He joined the CFM lab in Fall 2022 with the goal to learn about DNS of multiphase flows. He loves writing codes for CFD software with the aim to explain flow physics. Nithin received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Goa wherein he worked on simulating fluid-structure interaction using open-source tools applied to aeroelastic modelling of insect flight. He also worked as a CFD Engineer at SankhyaSutra Labs Ltd. predominantly working on enhancing the Lattice-Boltzmann flow solver to simulate moving boundaries. Nithin is recipient of the SPEEA Aerospace Career Enhancement (ACE) Fellowship for 2023-24. Nithin received his M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics at UW in 2024, and continued as a Ph.D student in the CFM lab. In his spare time he reads high-fantasy novels and enjoys watching or playing football (soccer). He is yet to fully explore his newfound love for mountain trekking in the Pacific North West.
Past Members
Ph.D. Graduates
Pablo Trefftz Posada (2023) “Direct numerical simulation of droplet-laden homogeneous shear turbulence”, continued as instructor in A&A at UW
Abhiram Aithal (2022) “Direct numerical simulation of turbulent boundary layer separating over a curved wall”
Andreas Freund (2020) “Wavelet-spectral analysis and large-eddy simulation using neural networks of droplet-laden decaying isotropic turbulence”; continued as vehicle data analyst at PACCAR
Michael Dodd (2017) “Direct numerical simulation of droplet-laden isotropic turbulence”; continued as Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University
Lt. Col. Barrett McCann (2014) “A wall model for large-eddy simulation of compressible channel flows”; continued as Faculty, US Air Force Academy
M.S. Graduates
Nithin Adidela, 2024, Continued as a Ph.D. student in the CFM Lab
Shao-Chi (George) Huang, 2021, Continued as Quality Assurance Engineer, Converget Solutions (CFD Co.)
Mira Tipirneni, 2021, Continued as Ph.D. student in the CFM Lab
Madeline Samuell, 2020, Continued as CFD analyst at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Dawei Lu, 2019, Continued as Researcher in the CFM Lab
Alex Le, 2016, Continued as Flight Sciences Engineer, Aerotec
Irfan Syahdan, 2015, Continued as Flight Test Engineer at Bhimasena Research and Development
Christopher Uyeda, 2015, Continued as System Engineer, Boeing
Zhengcheng Gu, 2014
Sean McMahon, 2014, Continued as Aerodynamicist in Flight-Test Enginering, Boeing
Keegan Webster, 2013, Continued as Mechanical Engineer for the US Army at Picatinny Arsenal
Hezky Varon, 2012
B.S. Graduates
Qiyang Hu, 2022, Continued as M.S. student in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University
Trevor Hedges, 2018, Continued as Ph.D. student in Aeronautics & Astronautics at Stanford University
Mishaal Aleem, 2015, Continued as Aerodynamics Engineer at Boeing, M.S. in Computer Science from USC and on to Boeing Satellites in El Segundo, CA
Daniel Hnatovic, 2014
Hanna Culvert, 2013, Continued as 2nd Lt in the Air Force, Vandenberg AFB, CA as developmental engineer in the 1st Air and Space Test Squadron, then moved to Lead Responsible Engineer for the Certification of the SpaceX Falcon 9
Chris Schweikhardt, 2013, Continued as M.S. student in Aeronautics at Stanford University
Christopher Uyeda, 2013, Continued as M.S. student in UW Aero & Astro
Edison Amah, 2012, Continued as Ph.D. student at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), recipient of the NSF Bridge-to-Doctorate Fellowship
Kent Benedict, 2012, Continued as Engineer at Stark Aerospace’s Engineering/AMI Division, Redmond, WA
Zhengcheng Gu, 2012, Continued as M.S. student in UW Aero & Astro
Christopher Mair, Fall 2012, Visiting student from the University of Bristol, U.K.
Sean McMahon, 2011, Continued as M.S. student in UW Aero & Astro
Keegan Webster, 2010, Continued as M.S. student UW Aero & Astro
Alexandria Western, Summer 2010, Visiting student from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor