Andrew A Oliva
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- PhD, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame (2022)
Biography
Dr. Andrew Oliva is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of Michigan Technological University. He has 4 years of experience in the gas turbine industry with Pratt & Whitney, focusing on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations and airfoil design for military fans. During his 6 years of graduate studies, Dr. Oliva designed and implemented subsonic wind tunnels, applied advanced fluid measurement techniques, and developed expertise in data analysis. With over 12 years of CFD experience, his work spans internal subsonic, supersonic, and hypersonic flows as well as external hypersonic flows. His expertise also includes physics-based reduced-order modeling, machine learning, and analytical methods for quasi-one-dimensional flows. Dr. Oliva holds a B.Sc. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. His research interests encompass multi-physics simulations, hypersonic and chemically reacting flows, weakly ionized plasma, entropy transport, unsteady fluid mechanics, turbomachinery, computational physics algorithms, optimal approximation techniques, and physics-based reduced order modeling.