People

Thomas Peacock

Associate Professor, MIT (2007-present)
Assistant Professor, MIT (2003-2007)

Education

B.Sc., Manchester University (1994)
D. Phil., Oxford University (1998)
Research Associate, University of Colorado (1998-2000)
Instructor, MIT (2000-2003)

Tom set up the ENDLab in 2003, when he joined Mechanical Engineering at MIT. The diversity of the group reflects his interests in using experiment, theory and numerics to investigate and understand dynamical phenomena. Week-in and week-out, he is involved with all the research projects going on in the lab. A resume, including a detailed list of publications and presentations is available. His official ME website has further details. [link]

A detailed resume is also available. [link]

When not in the lab trying to oversee the advancement of science, Tom likes to be outdoors and travel to far distant corners of the earth. For his sins, he is a supporter of the Spurs, who may some day rise again above mediocrity. He studied in England for both his undergraduate and graduate degrees, before coming through Colorado as a postdoc (where his skiing improved significantly) to become a faculty member at MIT.

Arezoo Ardekani

Postodoc

Arezoo joined the ENDlab in August 2009 as a Shapiro Postdoctoral Fellow. She is involved in the design of a propelling object in a stratified fluid. She is also theoretically studying temperature gradient driven phenomena near sloping boundaries.

Arezoo received her MS/PhD from University of California Irvine and prior to that she studied at Sharif University of Technology in Iran as an undergraduate student. For more details vist her website. [link]

Michael Allshouse

Graduate Student

Michael came to MIT in the Fall of 2004 to begin his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering. He joined the ENDLab in the summer of 2007 when he started work on diffusion layering, which he completed for his undergraduate thesis. Michael continued in the ENDLab after graduation and is working on the problem of Sailing on Diffusion for his Masters work. His interests include numerical studies as well as experimental work in fluid mechanics.

Michael hails from the great state of Texas, where he attended Marcus High School. He was able to continue playing soccer at MIT while also pursuing a number of other interests. Currently he finds sanctuary on the roads outside of Boston on his bike. While he follows a number of sports, his strongest allegiances have to be for the team in the red half of London.

Manikandan Mathur

Graduate Student

Mani has been at MIT since Fall 2005. Interested in the broad area of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Mani believes in addressing a given problem with the most appropriate tool, be it theory, experiments, or numerical simulations. For his PhD, he is working on understanding how internal waves propagate in nonuniform density gradients, mostly via laboratory experiments

Before coming to MIT, Mani did his Master's and undergrad at JNCASR, Bangalore and IIT Madras, Chennai, respectively. He enjoys a multitude of sports and humour.

Sasan Saidi

Graduate student

Sasan's primary research interests are stratified flows and internal wave dynamics. His research focus is a combination of computational analysis and experimental investigation. He is the newest member of the ENDLab, joining in August 2009.

Personal interests include running, international affairs, the arts, and enjoying the wealth of activites offered by both MIT and the Boston area. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin before making his way up north to MIT.

Brian Doyle

Undergraduate

Brian joined the ENDLab in the summer of 2009 and has worked on stratified flows. He has predominantly worked on internal waves research but is also involved with heated slope experiments; in particular the design and construction of a wedge propelled by the heating and cooling of its sloped faces.

Brian went to Hopkinton High School in Massachusetts and played for the football, hockey and baseball teams there. He is a Junior in Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where he also continues to play varsity football and baseball.

Ray Hardin

Assistant

Andy Gallant

Machinist