Lab Members
Lab Director
Dr. Seongkyu Lee
Professor
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 2009
M.S. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 2004
B. S. Pusan National University (High Honors), 2002
Doctoral Students
Nikos Trembois
Ph.D. Student, 2020 – Present
M.S. UC Davis, in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 2020
B.S. UC Davis, in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 2018
Research topic: propeller and wing interaction noise
Hyunjune Gill
Ph.D. Student, 2020 – Present
B.S. UC Davis, in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 2019
Research topic: propeller noise and trailing edge noise
Jordon Won
Ph.D. Student, 2022 – Present
B.S. UC Davis, in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, 2022
Research topic: rotorcraft broadband noise and blade design
Ethan Brown
Ph.D. Student, 2023 – Present
B.S. UC Davis, in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, 2023
Research topic: propeller CFD and acoustics
Huy Tran
Ph.D. Student, 2023 – Present
B.S. UC Davis, in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 2023
Research topic: rotor BVI noise
Xiangpu Wang
Ph.D. Student, 2023 – Present
B.S. Auburn University, in Aerospace Engineering, 2023
Research topic: UAM propeller noise
Alyssa Freed
Ph.D. Student, 2024 – Present
B.S. UC Davis, in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, 2023
Research topic: Wing tip vortex
Master’s Students
Juan Miranda (Co-advised with Prof. Camli Badrya)
MS Student, 2022 – Present
B.S. Penn State, in Aerospace Engineering, 2018
Research topic: UAM noise propagation
Michael Rodriguez
MS Student, 2023 – Present
B.S. UC Merced, in Mechanical Engineering, 2023
Research topic: UAM propeller noise
Undergraduate Students
Sarvarth Dobhal
BS Student in Aerospace Engineering, 2024 – Present
Research topic: CFD
Kevin Fan
BS Student in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, 2024 – Present
Research topic: CFD
Kuval Bora
BS Student in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, 2024 – Present
Research topic: Aeroacoustics
London Yeh
BS Student in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, 2024 – Present
Research topic: CFD
Alumni
PhD Students
- Donghun Kang (2024), Prediction and mitigation of airfoil noise using large eddy simulations, Now a post-doc at UC San Diego.
- Jessica Shum (2024), Effect of airfoil design parameters and particle impact induced surface roughness on dynamic stall, Now works at US Department of State.
- Jared Sagaga (2023), Aerodynamic and aeroacoustic analysis of side-by-side rotor urban air mobility vehicles in hover, Now works at CFD Research Corporation as a contractor to US Army.
- Sicheng (Kevin) Li (2022), Comprehensive rotorcraft broadband noise prediction, Now an assistant professor at Oklahoma State University.
- Zhongqi (Henry) Jia (2021), Aeroacoustic predictions for a lift-offset coaxial rotor and urban air mobility aircraft, Now works at US Army at Ames.
MS Students
- Hyunjune Gill (2022), Effect of 2-D ice accretion on turbulent boundary layer and trailing-edge noise
- Jagdeep Batther (2021), Numerical investigation of dynamic stall using delayed detached eddy simulations, Now works at Advanced Rotorcraft Technology (ART)
- Jessica Shum (2020), Computational fluid dynamics best practices for 2-D dynamic stall predictions
- Nikos Trembois (2020), Automatic mesh generation of structured overset rotor blades
- Sicheng (Kevin) Li (2020), Development of rotorcraft forward flight analysis code using the finite-state dynamic inflow model
- Yuejun (Peter) Shi (2019), Airfoil trailing edge noise prediction using RANS CFD
- Danny Nguyen (2018), Validation and improvement of the TNO model for trailing edge noise prediction
Post-Doctoral Scholar
- Gustavo Navarro (2016), Fast computational algorithm for sound propagation
Visiting Students
- Chen Liu (2018-2020), Airfoil trailing-edge noise reduction and shape optimization, Harbin Engineering University
- Yiyang Ma (2019), Rotorcraft dynamic stall, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Denghui Qin (2017-2018), Ducted propeller noise reduction and jet surface interaction noise, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), in School of Marine Science and Technology
Visiting Scholars
- Dr. Jae-Sang Park (2023-2024), Chungnam National University, Korea
- Dr. Kyoungyoun Kim (2022-2023), Hanbat National University, Korea
- Dr. Jongbong Yim (2021-2022), Agency for Defense Development, Korea
- Dr. Sangjoon Shin (2021-2022), Seoul National University, Korea
- Dr. Jongkwang Lee (2020-2021), Hanbat National University, Korea
- Dr. Seungkyung Park (2020-2021), Korea University of Technology and Education, Korea
- Dr. Ki-Wahn Ryu (2017-2018), Chonbuk National University, Korea
Undergraduate Students
- Alyssa Freed (2023), Wing tip vortex CFD
- Huy Tran (2023), Rotor BVI CFD
- Ethan Brown (2023), Propeller CFD
- Sam Kilduff (2023), Dynamic stall CFD
- Jordon Won (2022), Rotorcraft CFD and broadband noise prediction
- Inbal Shlesinger (2020), Coaxial rotor acoustics and iced airfoil
- Louis Cashatt (2019), OVERFLOW 2-D airfoil CFD
- Ryan (Jiawei) Liang (2019), OVERGRID mesh generation
- Hyunjune Gill (2019), Fluent and OpenFoam CFD
- Maxime Dasonvilee (2019), Coaxial rotor BEMT
- Abhay Negi (2019), OVERGRID mesh generation
- Dahlia Pham (2018), Fluent CFD analysis for an airfoil
- Robert Moore (2018), Turbulent flows on a flat plate
- Jessica Shum (2018), Turbulent wall pressure spectrum modeling
- Kevin (Sicheng) Li (2018), Wind turbine aerodynamics
- Michi (Pnithan) Jantarakolica (2018), Iced airfoil CFD
- Savannah Buchner (2018), Rotor trailing edge noise
- Dorian Crutcher (2017), CFD mesh generation using OVERGRID
- Andrew Chen (Summer Intern, 2016, 2017), Aircraft noise measurement and analysis
- Augusto Villaescusa (Summer Intern, 2016), Comparison and assessment of empirical wall pressure spectrum models
- Ryan Mcconnell (Summer Intern, 2016), ANSYS Workbench and Fluent simulations for flows around a NACA0012 airfoil
- Prabhjot Kaur Dhawan (Visiting undergraduate student, 2016), Validation and numerical sensitivity study for a semi-empirical BPM trailing edge noise model