COMPUTATIONAL ENGINEERING
FACULTY
![Mattia Bacca](https://mech2.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2024/03/Headshot-Bacca-Mattia-Kai-Jacobsen.png)
Mattia Bacca
Research Interests: multi-scale mechanics of materials
![Kendal Bushe](https://mech2.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2024/03/Headshot-Bushe-Kendal-Kai-Jacobsen.png)
Kendal Bushe
Research Interests: combustion, turbulence, numerical simulation, computational fluid dynamics, IC engines, thermal power generation
![Gwynn Elfring](https://mech2.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2015/06/Gwynn-Elfrin-Headshot.jpg)
Gwynn Elfring
Research Interests: Stokes flow, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, soft matter, suspensions, biolocomotion, active matter, cell mechanics, capillary phenomena
![Amanda Giang](https://mech2.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2019/11/AmandaGiang-cropped.jpg)
Amanda Giang
Research Interests: challenges at the interface of environmental modelling and policy through an interdisciplinary lens, with a focus on air pollution and toxics.
![Dana Grecov](https://mech2.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2024/03/Headshot-Grecov-Dana-Kai-Jacobsen.png)
Dana Grecov
Research Interests: liquid crystals and nanomaterials, multiphase flow, biofluid mechanics, non-newtonian fluid mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, rheology and tribology
![Ian Frigaard](https://mech2.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2024/04/Frigaard-Ian.png)
Ian Frigaard
Research Interests: non-Newtonian fluid mechanics & industrial mathematical modelling
![Rajeev Jaiman](https://mech2.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2018/10/Headshot-RajeevJaiman.jpg)
Rajeev Jaiman
Research Interests: computational fluid dynamics, finite element methods, data-driven modeling, numerical analysis, interface coupling methods, unstructured meshes, scientific machine learning
![Jasmin Jelovica](https://mech2.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2019/06/JJ-1-710x960-1-e1559688505189-641x960-1.jpg)
Jasmin Jelovica
Research Interests: beams, plates and shells; finite element analysis; machine learning and optimization; efficient structural forms
![Carl Ollivier-Gooch](https://mech2.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2024/03/Headshot-Olliver-Gooch-Carl-Kai-Jacobsen.png)
Carl Ollivier-Gooch
Research Interests: Developing high-order accurate methods for compressible, turbulent flows, with applications in aerodynamics. Error and stability analysis for CFD algorithms. Aerodynamic optimization. Unstructured mesh generation and adaptation.
![Mauricio Ponga](https://mech2.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2024/03/2017-07-10-Mauricio-Ponga-004-scaled-e1581097853586.jpg)
Mauricio Ponga
Research Interests: spallation in metals, sub-linear scaling methods for calculating crystal defects using DFT
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