Alumnus - Graduate Research Assistant - PhD
Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences
Biography
Dr. DeAnna Gilchrist was a Ph.D. student in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and an M.S. student in Applied Mathematics at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø. Dr. Gilchrist graduated in Summer 2023, and her dissertation focused on structure-preserving discretizations for compressible fluid flow on moving domains. Prior to coming to Â鶹¹ÙÍø, Dr. Gilchrist worked in industry using computational fluid dynamics and design space exploration to solve problems in conjugate heat transfer and airfoil design and analysis. Dr. Gilchrist currently is a Thermal Hydraulics Analyst at TerraPower.
CMGLab Publications
- J.A. Evans and D.S. Gilchrist, "A note on the conservation properties of the generalized-alpha method," in T. Tezduyar (Editor), "Frontiers in Computational Fluid-Structure Interaction and Flow Simulation: Research from Lead Investigators under 40," Birkhäuser/Springer, Cham, Chapter 3, 59-77, 2023.