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Education
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2023 - Present Cambridge, MA
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2018 - 2022 Providence, RI
Awards
- 2025
Editor's Suggestion
Physical Review Fluids
One of a small number of papers selected by the referees and editors as a work of 'particular interest, importance, or clarity.'
- 2025
Best Poster Presentation
Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT
Awarded for the presentation of research on the optimization of wind farm layouts using collective flow control strategies.
- 2022
Halpin Prize for Senior Capstone Projects
Brown University
Awarded for the development of next-generation tidal turbines by testing custom built soft-material turbine designs using water flume experiments.
Publications
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03.20.2025 Shape-morphing membranes augment the performance of oscillating foil energy harvesting turbines
Physical Review Fluids
A paper based on my undergraduate work studying the aerodynamics of compliant membrane wings published in Physical Review Fluids and recognized as an Editor’s Suggestion article. Compliant membrane wings, inspired by the wings of flying mammals such as bats, generate increased lift compared with rigid airfoils and exhibit a delayed onset of stall. When oscillating in a fluid flow such as rivers or tides, a compliant membrane wing can extract more power than using a rigid airfoil. Our study investigates the power performance of the turbine design across the full kinematic parameter range and compares the lift and power of compliant and inextensible membrane wings.