Congratulations to Dr. Michael Facci!
Congratulations to Michael Facci for successfully completing his PhD and graduating in Spring 2026.
Michael’s thesis is entitled, A Robust Immersed Interface Method for Viscous Incompressible Fluids and Discrete Surfaces.
Good luck, Michael!
Langtangen Prize
Our 2024 PNAS Nexus paper, Simulating cardiac fluid dynamics in the human heart, has been selected as one of two inaugural recipients of the Langtangen Prize.
The prize citation for this work is:
for the development of mathematical models of the heart that reproduce complex physiological phenomena.
The full citation for the winning paper is:
M. Davey, C. Puelz, S. Rossi, M. A. Smith, D. R. Wells, G. Sturgeon, W. P. Segars, J. P. Vavalle, C. S. Peskin, and B. E. Griffith. Simulating cardiac fluid dynamics in the human heart. PNAS Nexus, 3(10):pgae392 (16 pages), 2024.
Congratulations to Marshall, Charles, and the rest of the co-authors!
Nick Cantrell selected to UNC’s IVB program
Nick Cantrell has been selected as a trainee in UNC’s NIH-funded Integrative Vascular Biology training program.
Congratulations, Nick!
Congratulations to Dr. Cole Gruninger!
Congratulations to Cole Gruninger for successfully completing his PhD in Summer 2025.
Cole’s thesis is entitled, Advances in the Immersed Boundary Method: Viscoelastic Flows, Orthogonality-Preserving Regularization, and Robust Implicit Solvers.
Good luck, Cole!