People

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Office: Doherty Building (DRTY), Room 110A

Email: sagee@tamu.edu

Vasco Duke-Walker is a Ph.D. candidate working as a lead experimentalist in our shock tube facility. His current project utilizes advanced flow field diagnostics to study the microscale of shock-driven multiphase systems involving measurements to understand the simultaneous breakup, evaporation, and mixing of droplets behind a shock wave. His last work was on droplet break up and evaporation titled, ” Experiments on the breakup and evaporation of small droplets at high Weber number”

Vasco is from Panama. He holds a Bachelor’s in Aeronautical Engineering, a Master’s in Business Administration from the Technological University of Panama, and a Master of Science in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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Office: Doherty Bldg. Room 110A

email: vasco.duke@tamu.edu

phone (720) 589-4203

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Office: Doherty Building (DRTY), Room 110A

Email: jacobkeltz@tamu.edu

Ryan is a PhD student working on ejecta modeling and simulations. He collaborates with Los Alamos National Laboratory in creating ejecta models for further use in simulations. After graduate school, Ryan would like to pursue a career at a national laboratory then later become a professor in Oklahoma. Outside of his work, Ryan enjoys keeping up with college sports (Gig ‘Em Aggies and Boomer Sooner!), watching movies, poorly cooking new dishes, and tinkering on his home server.

Ryan holds a Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. He is from Moore, Oklahoma.

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Office: Doherty Building (DRTY), Room 301NA

email: ryanmyers@tamu.edu

website: https://rjzf.github.io/

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Office: James J. Cain ’51 Building (JCAIN), Room 426

Email: manojpdl@tamu.edu

 

Calvin is a PhD student working on multi-phase detonation experiments. Current projects include investigating droplet breakup and reaction in the  Multiphase Detonation Tube Facility and simulations of hypersonic shock-droplet interactions with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Interests include shock & detonations physics and laser-optical diagnostics. Past projects include diagnosis of the lab’s atmospheric plasma torch facility, investigations into novel nano-thermite energetics, and internships with Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Calvin holds a MS ME from Texas A&M and BS ME from the University of Missouri, and was previously with the lab group there. He is from Kansas City, Missouri.

Contact

Office: Doherty Bldg. Room 110A

email: young_c@tamu.edu

phone (816) 835-5034

Hanif is a PhD candidate working on multiphase simulations of dust processing and hydrodynamics in planetary nebulae. His current project is to simulate dust and gas behavior effected by radiation pressure and stellar pulsation in real length scale.

Hanif received his Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering at Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, and his Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University in Tehran, Iran. He is from Tehran, Iran.

Contact

Office: James J. Cain ’51 Building (JCAIN), Room 426

email: hanif@tamu.edu