Graduate Research Assistant - UIUC Department of Aerospace Engineering

Aug 2014 - Current

Worked within a Department of Energy funded project team (XPACC) on implementation of multi-rate time integrators for multiphysics simulation of plasma-coupled combustion. Culminated in publication in the Journal of Computational Physics.

Currently working with CEESD (CEESD) on application of code-generated multi-rate integrators with a focus on implicit-explicit capabilities for stiff chemical kinetics of reacting flows.

Undergraduate Research Assistant - Texas A&M Department of Aerospace Engineering

Summer 2012

Conducted research with a faculty advisor in the aerospace department for 10 weeks involving the use of AUTO bifurcation software packages in post-processing analysis of computational fluid dynamics flowfield program outputs.

Multi-Rate Time Integration on Overset Meshes. C. Mikida, A. Kloeckner, D. Bodony Accepted to Journal of Computational Physics. (June 2019) See https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06607.

Summer Internship - Los Alamos National Laboratory

Summer 2016

Spent a summer working in the plasma physics group with Dr. Luis Chacon and Dr. Guangye Chen optimizing a particle-in-cell (PIC) code written in Fortran, leveraging both a conceptual and computational understanding of the scientific procedure at hand.

Summer Internship(s) - Moog, Inc.

2013 - 2014

Performed design and analysis work in the Space and Defense Group for the blocking valve of a thrust-control actuation system; used ANSYS, UGS NX 7.5, and Simulink to perform dynamic modeling and stress analyses to inform component geometry changes.