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Larsson, Johan

Larsson, Johan

Professor
Affiliate of the Applied Mathematics & Statistics and Scientific Computation program
Affiliate of the Department of Aerospace Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
3149 Glenn L. Martin Hall
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EDUCATION

  • PhD, University of Waterloo, Canada  (2006)
  • MSc, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden  (2002)
  • BSc, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden  (1999)

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • E. Robert Kent Outstanding Teaching Award for Junior Faculty  (2018)
  • NSF CAREER Award  (2015)
  • Best MSc Thesis in the ME Department  (2015; to student Andrew Trettel)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • Associate Fellow of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • American Physical Society

 

Dr. Larsson has broad interests within the fields of fluid mechanics, turbulence, and predictive computational science. His interests range from the very fundamental to the rather applied: his ideal research question is one which solves a highly applied problem through a rigorous and creative fundamental approach. Large-scale simulations on thousands of processors are an important tool in this research, enabling detailed turbulence simulations or quantification of simulation uncertainties. Current project topics include: enabling large eddy simulation to be applied at realistic (high) Reynolds numbers through approximate wall-modeling; developing grid-adaptation techniques for turbulence simulations; developing physics-based uncertainty quantification approaches; and developing improved models for hypersonic turbulent flows.


ENME202 "Programming"

ENME392 "Statistics"

ENME489M "Advanced Fluid Mechanics"

ENME656 "Wall-bounded turbulent flows"

ENME745/417 "Numerical Methods in Engineering"

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