Kazuki Maeda, a Research Associate in the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford University, will present their research in this seminar.

ABSTRACT

There is an ever-growing demand for advanced computing for the design and analysis of rocket propulsion and hypersonics systems. In this talk, I will present a framework for physics-based ensemble simulation of high-speed reacting flows on state-of-the-art supercomputers, and its application to the quantification of laser-based ignition of a methane-fueled model rocket combustor. An emphasis will be placed on the task-based design of the framework as well as verification and validation efforts including apple-to-apple comparisons with companion experiments performed in the Zucrow laboratory at Purdue University. I will also discuss perspectives on integrated platforms for coupled multi-physics simulation, sensing, and real-time data processing in conjunction with computer science and software engineering, and their use for the control and optimization of high-speed flow systems.

BIOGRAPHY

Kazuki Maeda is a Research Associate in the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford University. He is a member of the Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program (PSAAP) Center for predicting the reliability of in-space ignition of a rocket combustor which is funded by the US Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration. He obtained his BS from the University of Tokyo in 2013, and MS and PhD from Caltech in 2014 and 2018, all in Mechanical Engineering. He received the Richard Bruce Chapman Memorial Award for distinguished research in hydrodynamics from Caltech in 2018 and the Overseas Scholarship Award from the Funai Foundation for Information Technology from 2013 to 2018.