Ph.inally D.one!

Congratulations Anush! Friends surprised Anush with this lovely cake to celebrate his accomplishment.

Two Barba-group Ph.D. students successfully defended their doctoral dissertation this week. Congratulations to them!

• Anush Krishnan came to Boston University on 2009, after completing a Dual Degree (B. Tech & M. Tech.) in Aerospace Engineering at IIT Madras, Chennai, India. He has worked on development of immersed boundary methods (IBM) for solving Navier-Stokes equations at moderate Reynolds numbers, and application to the aerodynamics of flying snakes. Anush developed cuIBM, a two-dimensional IBM code using Nvidia GPUs with CUDA, and PetIBM, a 3D IBM code using the PETSc parallel CPU library. 
• Christopher Cooper arrived at Boston University shortly after, in Spring 2010. He has a mechanical engineering degree from Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María—also Prof. Barba's first alma mater—in Valparaíso, Chile. Christopher has worked in the development of fast boundary element methods (BEM), using trecode and fast multipole algorithms, and application to biomolecular electrostatics and biosensors. He developed the PyGBe code, a BEM solver using Python and GPUs via CUDA and PyCUDA.

Anush starts a new job immediately as CFD engineer in Exa Corporation while Christopher is taking a position as faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María!

Watch the recorded Presentations

The PhD thesis defense talks of Anush and Christopher were broadcast live on a Google Hangout On Air. You can view the recordings on You Tube!

Anush Krishnan

Christopher Cooper

Publications

Anush Krishnan

• "Lift and wakes of flying snakes", Anush Krishnan, John J. Socha, Pavlos V. Vlachos, L. A. Barba. Phys. Fluids, 26:031901 (2014). 10.1063/1.4866444 // Preprint arXiv:1309.2969 // figshare: body geometry // figshare: lift and drag coefficient curves //
• "Flying snake wake visualizations with cuIBM", Anush Krishnan, L. A. Barba. (19 February 2013). 10.6084/m9.figshare.157334
  

  Video published on figshare under CC-BY.

• "cuIBM—A GPU accelerated immersed boundary method", Simon K. Layton, Anush Krishnan, L. A. Barba. 23rd International Conference on Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics, ParCFD’11 (16–20 May 2011), Barcelona, Spain. // Code repository //
• "Validation of the cuIBM code for Navier-Stokes equations with immersed boundary methods", Anush Krishnan, L. A. Barba. (6 July 2012). 10.6084/m9.figshare.92789 // Code repository
  

  Technical report published on figshare under CC-BY-NC.

• "Aerodynamics of flying snakes using an immersed boundary method", Anush Krishnan, L. A. Barba. 24th International Conference on Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics, ParCFD’12 (21–25 May 2012).
• "Projection-based immersed boundary method in CUDA", Anush Krishnan, L. A. Barba. World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM) (8–13 July 2012), Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Christopher Cooper

• "A biomolecular electrostatics solver using Python, GPUs and boundary elements that can handle solvent-filled cavities and Stern layers", Christopher D. Cooper, Jaydeep P. Bardhan, L. A. Barba. Comput. Phys. Comm., 185(3):720–729 (March 2014). 10.1016/j.cpc.2013.10.028 // Preprint arXiv:1309.4018 // figshare: convergence with sphere // figshare: lysozyme // figshare: trypsin-BPTI complex // figshare: peptide-RNA complex // code repository //
  

  Published online 4 November, 2013.

• "PyGBe: Python on the surface, GPUs at the heart. BEM solver for Electrostatics of Biomolecules", Christopher D. Cooper, L. A. Barba. (13 March 2013). 10.6084/m9.figshare.650855 // Code repository
  

  Poster presented at the GPU Technology Conference, GTC13, published on figshare under CC-BY.

• "Validation of the PyGBe code for Poisson-Boltzmann equation with boundary element methods", Christopher D. Cooper, L. A. Barba. (25 January 2013). 10.6084/m9.figshare.154331 // Code repository
  

  Technical Report published on figshare under CC-BY-NC-SA.

• "Parallel implementation of panel-free boundary conditions for the vortex particle method", Felipe A. Cruz, Christopher D. Cooper, Rio Yokota, L. A. Barba. 21st International Conference on Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics (18–22 May 2009), Moffett Field, California.
• "Panel-free boundary conditions for viscous vortex methods", Christopher D. Cooper, L. A. Barba. 19th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference (22–25 June 2009), San Antonio, Texas. // CooperBarbaAIAA-2009-3546
  

  Paper AIAA 2009-3546

• "Efficient boundary element method on Python using GPUs", Christopher D. Cooper, L. A. Barba. World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM) (8–13 July 2012), Sao Paulo, Brazil.