Curriculum Vitae - Mitchell Fowler

Education

Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore, MD
Spring 2018 - Fall 2023
PhD, Mechanical Engineering (degree conferred May 2024)
MSE, Mechanical Engineering (Spring 2022)
Advisors: Charles Meneveau & Tamer Zaki
GPA: 3.97/4.00 (estimated)
Kansas State University - Manhattan, KS
Fall 2014 - Fall 2017
BSc, Mechanical Engineering
GPA: 4.00/4.00

Work Experience

Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division - West Bethesda, MD
December 2023 - present
Engineer
  • Develop reduced order fluid dynamics models for Navy submersible applications
  • R&D projects involving academic collaborators
  • Deliver technical reports for major research findings
  • Coordinate project responsibilities with experimentalists, CFD analysts, and other NAVSEA personnel
Johns Hopkins University - Baltimore, MD
January 2018 - November 2023
PhD Student Researcher - Wall modeling for Large Eddy Simulations
  • Develop and test a turbulence Large Eddy Simulation (LES) wall model and incorporate into JHU’s LESGO code. Wall model development focuses on incompressible, smooth-wall flows with non-equilibrium dynamics such as non-stationarity and/or large spatial gradients.
Teaching Assistant - Intermediate Fluid Mechanics
Spring 2021
  • Responsibilities: Design and grade homework assignments and COMSOL projects, and provide office hours to review material
  • Course Description: Upper undergraduate/graduate level fluid mechanics course. Covers control volume relations, 1D compressible flow, normal shocks, pipe network design, turbomachinery.
Teaching Assistant - Fluid Dynamics 1
Fall 2020
  • Responsibilities: Design and grade homework assignments, and provide office hours to review material
  • Course Description: First graduate course in fluid dynamics. Main topics include conservation laws (integral and differential forms) & limiting behaviors of N-S equations such as potential flow, boundary layers, creeping flow, & lubrication theory
Data Annotation Tech - Remote
January 2025 - May 2025
AI Trainer - Physics, Programming, & Math
  • Write prompts for an AI model and assess its response.
Varsity Tutors - Overland Park, KS
Spring & Summer 2019
Math and Physics Tutor
  • Online and in-person math and physics tutor for many students with ages ranging from elementary school to high school.
Kansas State University - Manhattan, KS
Fall 2016 - Fall 2017
Scholars Assisting Scholars (SAS) Tutor
  • Held open lab tutoring hours, held exam review sessions, and attended lectures
  • Subjects: Dynamics (Fall 2016), Fluid Mechanics (Spring 2017), Calculus III (Fall 2017)
John Deere - Waterloo, IA
Summer 2017
Product Engineering Intern - S450 (9.0 L) Base Engine Design (Engine Engineering, JDPS)
  • Carried out many projects related to design, the product delivery process, and continuous improvement for John Deere engines
John Deere - Waterloo, IA
Summer 2016
Product Engineering Intern - Performance Analysis (Engine Engineering, JDPS)
  • Developed cranktrain/power cylinder model for engines within GT-Suite
  • Provided direction and coordination in gathering crankshaft bearing wear data for JD engines
Taylor Forge Engineered Systems - Paola, KS
Summer 2015
Metallurgy Lab Intern
  • Conducted and analyzed mechanical testing on part samples from pipeline products
Senior Design, Kansas State University
Spring 2017 - Fall 2017
Design Team Leader
  • Developed cooling tower fill sheets for SPX Cooling Technologies
  • Design goal was to maximize heat transfer and minimize pressure losses through a fill sheet

Research Interests

  • CFD simulation
  • Reduced order modeling - wall modeling, empirical/data-driven methods
  • Boundary layers - e.g. viscous-inviscid solvers

Technical Skills & Software Capabilities

  • Programming Languages - Matlab, Python, Fortran, Bash, C++
  • High performance computing resources - MARCC, Rockfish, Panoramix (local cluster), TACC
  • Large dataset usage - Johns Hopkins Turbulence Database (JHTDB)
  • CFD & CAD Software - COMSOL, SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, Creo
  • Version Control - Github
  • Computing platforms - Jupyter Notebook, CoCalc
  • Technical Writing - LaTeX, Overleaf
  • Additional Skills - MPI parallel computing experience

Activities, Awards, & Leadership

JHU Mechanical Engineering Graduate Intramural Soccer Captain
Fall 2018 - Fall 2023
JHU Mechanical Engineering Departmental Fellowship
Spring 2018
Outstanding Senior in Mechanical Engineering
December 2017
Steel Ring, Judging/Rules Committee
Spring 2016 - Spring 2017
Organize K-State’s Engineering Open House
Tau Beta Pi Honor Society, Corresponding Secretary, Engineering Futures
Fall 2015 - Fall 2017
Pi Tau Sigma Honor Society, Member
Fall 2015 - Fall 2017
Human Powered Vehicle Design Team, Member
Spring 2015 - Spring 2016

Conferences & Research Presentations

Technical Research Programs Attended

American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS DFD)
Fall 2020 - 2024
CEAFM-Burgers-Symposium
Summer 2018, 2021, 2022
Center for Environmental & Applied Fluid Mechanics Seminar Series
Spring 2018 - Fall 2023
JHU Graduate Seminar in Fluid Mechanics
Spring 2018 - Fall 2023
JHU Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Spring 2018 - Fall 2023
The Burgers Program Turbulence Summer School
Summer 2018

Presentations

iTi Conference on Turbulence
Summer 2023
ONR Annual Program Review
Fall 2022
APS DFD
Fall 2021 - 2025
CEAFM-Burgers-Symposium
Summer 2022
Graduate Seminar in Fluid Mechanics
Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Fall 2022

Publications

  1. Fowler, M., Zaki, T., & Meneveau, C. (2022). A Lagrangian relaxation towards equilibrium wall model for large eddy simulation. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 934, A44. doi:10.1017/jfm.2021.1156
  2. Fowler, M., Zaki, T., & Meneveau, C. (2023). A multi-timescale wall model for LES and applications to non-equilibrium channel flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 974, A51. doi:10.1017/jfm.2023.585

Reviewer for Peer-Reviewed Journals

  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics