Seongkyu Lee

Lab Members

Lab Director

Seongkyu Lee

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

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

Kaitaro Hori
BS Student in Aerospace Engineering, 2024 – Present
Research topic: Aeroacoustics

Alumni

PhD Students

  1. Donghun Kang (2024), Prediction and mitigation of airfoil noise using large eddy simulations, Now a post-doc at UC San Diego.
  2. Jessica Shum (2024), Effect of airfoil design parameters and particle impact induced surface roughness on dynamic stall, Now works at US Department of State.
  3. 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.
  4. Sicheng (Kevin) Li (2022), Comprehensive rotorcraft broadband noise prediction, Now an assistant professor at Oklahoma State University.
  5. 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

  1. Hyunjune Gill (2022), Effect of 2-D ice accretion on turbulent boundary layer and trailing-edge noise
  2. Jagdeep Batther (2021), Numerical investigation of dynamic stall using delayed detached eddy simulations, Now works at Advanced Rotorcraft Technology (ART)
  3. Jessica Shum (2020), Computational fluid dynamics best practices for 2-D dynamic stall predictions
  4. Nikos Trembois (2020), Automatic mesh generation of structured overset rotor blades
  5. Sicheng (Kevin) Li (2020), Development of rotorcraft forward flight analysis code using the finite-state dynamic inflow model
  6. Yuejun (Peter) Shi (2019), Airfoil trailing edge noise prediction using RANS CFD
  7. Danny Nguyen (2018), Validation and improvement of the TNO model for trailing edge noise prediction


Post-Doctoral Scholar

  1. Gustavo Navarro (2016), Fast computational algorithm for sound propagation


Visiting Students

  1. Jaehyeon Park (2024-2025), Drone noise reduction, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)
  2. Chen Liu (2018-2020), Airfoil trailing-edge noise reduction and shape optimization, Harbin Engineering University
  3. Yiyang Ma (2019), Rotorcraft dynamic stall, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  4. 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

  1. Dr. Jae-Sang Park (2023-2024), Chungnam National University, Korea
  2. Dr. Kyoungyoun Kim (2022-2023), Hanbat National University, Korea
  3. Dr. Jongbong Yim (2021-2022), Agency for Defense Development, Korea
  4. Dr. Sangjoon Shin (2021-2022), Seoul National University, Korea
  5. Dr. Jongkwang Lee (2020-2021), Hanbat National University, Korea
  6. Dr. Seungkyung Park (2020-2021), Korea University of Technology and Education, Korea
  7. Dr. Ki-Wahn Ryu (2017-2018), Chonbuk National University, Korea


Undergraduate Students

  1. Alyssa Freed (2023), Wing tip vortex CFD
  2. Huy Tran (2023), Rotor BVI CFD
  3. Ethan Brown (2023), Propeller CFD
  4. Sam Kilduff (2023), Dynamic stall CFD 
  5. Jordon Won (2022), Rotorcraft CFD and broadband noise prediction
  6. Inbal Shlesinger (2020), Coaxial rotor acoustics and iced airfoil
  7. Louis Cashatt (2019), OVERFLOW 2-D airfoil CFD
  8. Ryan (Jiawei) Liang (2019), OVERGRID mesh generation
  9. Hyunjune Gill (2019), Fluent and OpenFoam CFD
  10. Maxime Dasonvilee (2019), Coaxial rotor BEMT
  11. Abhay Negi (2019), OVERGRID mesh generation
  12. Dahlia Pham (2018), Fluent CFD analysis for an airfoil
  13. Robert Moore (2018), Turbulent flows on a flat plate
  14. Jessica Shum (2018), Turbulent wall pressure spectrum modeling
  15. Kevin (Sicheng) Li (2018), Wind turbine aerodynamics
  16. Michi (Pnithan) Jantarakolica (2018), Iced airfoil CFD
  17. Savannah Buchner (2018), Rotor trailing edge noise
  18. Dorian Crutcher (2017), CFD mesh generation using OVERGRID
  19. Andrew Chen (Summer Intern, 2016, 2017), Aircraft noise measurement and analysis
  20. Augusto Villaescusa (Summer Intern, 2016), Comparison and assessment of empirical wall pressure spectrum models
  21. Ryan Mcconnell (Summer Intern, 2016), ANSYS Workbench and Fluent simulations for flows around a NACA0012 airfoil
  22. Prabhjot Kaur Dhawan (Visiting undergraduate student, 2016), Validation and numerical sensitivity study for a semi-empirical BPM trailing edge noise model