Sponsored Research
Shay Vitale
PURA researcher (Spring/Fall 2023)
Research: I am a 3rd-year aerospace engineering student at Georgia Tech and recipient of the Presidential Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) exploring propellant management in microgravity environments. I am working to develop mathematical models that compare the impact of different forces including magnetic and dielectrophoretic forces on propellant behavior. The results of this project will inform propellant management device selection for tanks of different sizes and contribute to the development of more efficient propulsion systems for future space missions.
Brian González
PURA researcher (Fall 2023)
Research: I’m a third-year Aerospace Engineering undergraduate student at Georgia Tech. I’ve focused on rocket propellant sloshing at the LGST lab for three semesters, developing a graphical tool to model wave propagation and a linear actuator to be used for future research in the field. I’m honored to receive the Presidential Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) to continue exploring correlations between different damping systems and the effects on wave amplitudes, with the hope of deepening our understanding of fluid dynamics.
Undergraduate Research Program
- Fall 2023: Devindi Amanya Ambawatta, Alfonso Enrique Bravo, Joseph Walker Brown, Alba Casas, Giancarlo Michael Cecchini, Pablo Chiva, Manuel Cortés Hernán, Filippo Di Benedetto, Justin R. Effendi, Joshua Emmanuel Ferrier, Alicia Frances Frick, Yubo Fu, Brian Nicholas González, Nathaniel Clark Green, Devin, Stuart Kelsey, Ezra Elias Keto, Jason Ventzislavov Lazarov, Emma Louise Mobley, Kashvi M. Mundra, Mitchell Sharad Nadkarni, Andrew Joseph Orr, Rohan Paladugu, Jaide Hitesh Patel, Griffin Coltrane Rahn, Carolina Arcángel Ramos Ocasio, Amy Joy Yingtong Ritter, Zoe Taylor Roberson, Alden Joseph Rosakranse, Evan Luis Sánchez, Rabia Muqudas Shahid, Brice Elizander Shearwood, Akash Ethan Shiri, Evan Michael Thomas, Juan Trobajo, Shay Terence Vitale, Ellen Sophia Wang.
- Summer 2023: Brian Nicholas Gonzalez, Devin Stuart Kelsey, Dhruv Ahuja, Hadi Haroon Malik, Jaiden Hitesh Patel, Jason Ventzislavov Lazarov, Joseph Walker Brown, Matthew Ross Cooper, Nathaniel Clark Green, Rohan Paladugu.
- Spring 2023: Aidan James Hammond, Akash Ethan Shiri, Aman Deep Khemka, Andrew Joseph Orr, Bhaskar P Jain, David Shaji, Devin Stuart Kelsey, Dhruv Ahuja, Ebaa Bekele Dufera, Evan Luis Sanchez, Filippo Di Benedetto, Giancarlo Michael Cecchini, Gopa Ambalal Patel, Griffin Coltrane Rahn, Irene Ann Abraham, Jessica Ly, Joseph Carragher, Joseph Walker Brown, Justin R Effendi, Matthew R Gray, Matthias Michael Kura, Melvin Magdiel Avila, Nicolas Montero, Omar A Garib, Palin Chandra Bhardwaj, Rabia Muqudas Shahid, Rohan Paladugu, Rushil Hiten Negandhi, Saaketh Ram Ramoju, Yubo Fu, Zheng-Yin Lee, Zoe Taylor Roberson.
- Fall 2022: Aidan James Hammond, Akash Ethan Shiri, Brian Nicholas Gonzalez, Charles Samuel Li, Eric Shao, Gavin Michael Garland, Joseph Carragher, Joseph Walker Brown, Justin R. Effendi, Kira Vedyanina, Nicolas Montero, Pablo Martin Garcia, Rabia Muqudas Shahid, Sajni Saravanan, Shahriyar Karim.