TEAM
Xinyu Zhao
Assistant Professor
Prof. Zhao joined University of Connecticut since Feb. 2015 as an assistant professor. She is the founder and advisor of the CTF@UCONN.
Education:
Ph. D., Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2013
M. Sc., Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2008
B. Eng., Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2006
GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANTS
Nicolas Tricard
Accelerated Master
Research Interests: modeling detonation of spray droplets
Peiyu Zhang
Ph.D. candidate
Research Interests: computational databases, planar laser induced fluorescence
Patrick Meagher
Ph.D. candidate
Julian Toumey
Master student
Research Interests: efficient and accurate simulations, gas turbine combustor
Alexandros Mathioudakis
Ph.D. candidate
Research Interests: turbulent premixed flames modeling
ALUMNI
Andrew Caratenuto
Graduate student at Northeastern
Hasret Turkeri
Advanced Lead Engineer at TEI Turkey
Bifen Wu
Postdoc at FM Global
Samuel Calello III
Currently at Innovative Scientific Solutions Incorporated (ISSI)
Andressa Johnson
Engineer at Pratt & Whitney
Joseph Squeo
Research assistant at CTF@UConn
Our team over the years…
2024
2022
2021
2020
Conference March 2020
2019
Combustion Group Dec 2019
