
Jacob Troy Needels
Ph.D. Student in Aeronautics and Astronautics, admitted Spring 2019
Bio
Jacob Needels is a current Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. He holds a M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on computational fluid dynamics for high-speed flows, with an emphasis on nonequilibrium thermochemical models and uncertainty quantification for robust vehicle design. He works on development of the SU2 open-source software, particularly focused on implementation and validation of capabilities to model multi-species reacting gases.
Honors & Awards
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Stanford Graduate Fellowship in Engineering, Stanford University (2018)
Education & Certifications
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BS, University of California, Davis, Mechanical Engineering (2018)
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MS, Stanford University, Aeronautics and Astronautics (2020)
All Publications
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A new boundary layer integral method based on the Universal Velocity Profile
Physics of Fluids
2022
View details for DOI 10.1063/5.0100367
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SU2-NEMO: An Open-Source Framework for High-Mach Nonequilibrium Multi-Species Flows
AEROSPACE
2021; 8 (7)
View details for DOI 10.3390/aerospace8070193
View details for Web of Science ID 000675963600001