Dr. Denis Aslangil

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

Biography

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.

Honors and Awards

• 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).