Emre Sozer

Graduate Student Research Assistant, PhD Candidate
Address: 2211 FXB, Phone: (734) 763-5896, e-mail: esozer@umich.edu

Emre Sozer has received his B.S degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey in 2003. Following his graduation, he was employed by the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), Defense Industry Research and Development Institute (SAGE). In 2004, he started pursuing his PhD degree in the University of Florida, Gainesville. In 2005, he transferred to the University of Michigan, Aerospace Engineering Department. He received his MS degree in 2006. He is currently a PhD candidate and research assistant under advisory of Prof. Wei Shyy.

Research Interests
Propulsion, Liquid Rocket Engines
Chemically reacting flows, turbulence
Computational fluid dynamics techniques
Unstructured grid methods, parallel programming
Surrogate based optimization
Multi-scale modeling of fluid flow and heat transfer through porous media

See http://shyylab.engin.umich.edu/research/propulsion-combustion for more details.

Awards

Highly Commended Award Winner article at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2009:

Sozer, E. and Shyy, W., “Multi-scale thermo-fluid transport in porous media”, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 18, Issue 7/8, (2008), pp. 883-899

Free CFD

Free CFD is an open source, general purpose computational fluid dynamics code project initiated by Emre Sozer together with Patrick Trizila in hopes of providing the CFD community with an easy to use and develop platform for their research and applications. You can obtain more information at www.freecfd.com

Links

Research Summary
Resume [PDF]
Free CFD An open-source CFD code initiative
Photography by Emre Sozer