Name:  Gabriel Weymouth

Year at MIT:  4 down, less than one to go (hopefully)

Hometown/Country: Denver CO / USA

Anticipated Degree/Graduation Date: PhD OE / ~ Summer 07

Projects: My research is in the field of computational hydrodynamics and I’ve worked on a number of different projects within that field. Typically these involve developing new numerical techniques for simulating the flow around high-speed ships (characterized by turbulent flow, overturning bow waves and unsteady wakes). I’ve also worked on computational geometry projects (computing descriptive characteristics of ship hulls and other parametric surfaces) and recently helped to develop a number of methods to estimate forces on a vibrating cylinder given noisy/incomplete velocity field data. My current research is on simple force calculations for unsteady immersed bodies and using statistical methods in combination with deterministic simulations of complex systems.

Professors work(ed) with: Dick K.P. Yue is my Advisor.

Plans for the Future: I would like to continue my research into cost-effective but highly accurate simulation tools for ocean engineering systems. I’m probably going to need a nice long vacation first though, to blow off some steam…

Professional Societies: I’m a member of SNAME and ASNE and IEEE …assuming I remembered to renew those membership forms.

Student Groups: I was the Social Chair and then the President of the 13SEAs, the Ocean Engineering student association. I have taught in the MIT Tae Kwon Do club since arriving four years ago.

Hobbies: I like reading books and going to seminars on entirely different fields; from philosophy of the mind to art history (Boston’s a great place to be a student). I’m also into backpacking, martial arts and watching cheesy movies.

Favorite thing about MIT:  Well I can’t speak for the entire school, but my favorite thing about the Ocean Engineering group is that students are allowed and even encouraged to engage themselves in cutting edge and unexplored research opportunities. By allowing options beyond the standard “next-step” research, the group consistently finds itself with innovative thinkers developing new and unexpected engineering technologies.