Nick Jenkins Ph.D. Pre-Candidate Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences University of Colorado at Boulder ECAE 188 429 UCB Boulder, CO 80309-0429 Phone:(303) 492-0619 Fax: (303) 492-4990 nicholas.jenkins@colorado.edu

Advisor

Education

B.S. Mechanical Engineering - Oregon State University 2009

Research Interests

- Optimization of highly coupled multi-physics applications

- Stabilized ALE Finite Element Methods

- Fluid Structure Interaction & AeroThermoElasticity

- Fluid Mechanics & Computational Fluid Dynamics

- Adaptive Methods & Automation

- Shock physics, interaction, and instabilities in flows and solids

Projects

- Hypersonic flow simulations of projectiles modeled by compressible Navier-Stokes equations augmented with one equation turbulence model

- Incompressible Fluid-Structure Interaction via Stablized ALE Finite Elements and Monolithic Coupling