Dr. Denis Aslangil
Assistant Professor
Contact
- 220 Hardaway Hall
- phone (205) 348-3327
- Faculty Website
Education
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University, 2019
- M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University, 2015
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, 2012
- B.S., Industrial Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, 2012
Dr. Denis Aslangil joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics (AEM) at the University of Alabama as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2021. Prior to joining AEM, Dr. Aslangil was a postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He is an expert in turbulence and active scalar turbulent mixing and specializes in high fidelity Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) and Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS). He is also developing physics-informed machine learning turbulence models capable of capturing all physical features relevant to the real flow. His research interests include the theory, modeling and simulation of multi-material turbulence; hydrodynamic instabilities in nuclear fusion, ICF; sub- and super-sonic flows; physics informed machine learning; and high-performance computing.
Affiliated Areas
Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
Selected Publications
- Denis Aslangil, and Man Long Wong, “Investigation of strong isothermal stratification effects on multi-mode compressible Rayleigh–Taylor instability”, Phys. of Fluids 35, 084116 (2023).
- Denis Aslangil, Arindam Banerjee, and Andrew Lawrie, Effects of Variable Deceleration Periods on Rayleigh–Taylor Instability With Acceleration Reversals”, Physical Rev E 105, 065103 (2022).
- Juan A. Saenz, Denis Aslangil, and Daniel Livescu, “Filtering, averaging and scale dependency in homogeneous variable-density turbulence”, Phys. of Fluids 33, 025115 (2021).
- Denis Aslangil, Daniel Livescu, and Arindam Banerjee, “Effects of Atwood and Reynolds numbers on the evolution of buoyancy-driven homogeneous variable-density turbulence”, J. Fluid Mech. 895, A12 (2020).
- Denis Aslangil, Daniel Livescu, and Arindam Banerjee, “Buoyancy-driven homogeneous variable-density turbulence with asymmetric initial density distributions”, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 406, 132444 (2020).
Awards and Honors
- Single PI, National Science Foundation (CBET-Fluid Dynamics) “Flow Dynamics in Buoyancy-Driven Variable-Density Turbulent Mixing with Compressibility Effects” (2023).
- Lead-PI, (co-PI Prof. Amy Lang) – National Science Foundation (Eng. Workforce Development) “REU Site: Fluid Mechanics with Analysis using Computations and Experiments (FM-ACE)” (2023).
- Single PI The University of Alabama Internal Fund “Turbulent Mixing of Immiscible Fluids” (2023).
- Outstanding Student Opinion of Instruction, The Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics (2021).