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Marcos Vanella

Marcos Vanella

Post Doctoral Scientist, Ph.D University of Maryland, College Park, 2010.

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Eng.
The George Washington University
Academic Center, 720G
801 22ND Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052
mvanella@umd.edu

EDUCATION

  • Dipl. Eng., Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cordoba, Argentina. July 2003.
  • Dipl. Eng., Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Cordoba, Argentina. July 2004.
  • M.Sc. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park. May 2008.
  • Ph.D. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park. May 2010.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • AMR-LES-FSI for Biological Flows: I work on the development of novel parallel Adaptive Mesh Refinement methods suitable for direct numerical simulations and large-eddy simulations of turbulent and transitional flows. Particular emphasis is placed on fluid structure interaction applications in insect light.