Martin Liza

Martin E. Liza is a GEM fellow and a Ph.D. student in the Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arizona (UoA), where he is a research assistant in the Computational Hypersonics and Nonequilibrium Laboratory (CHANL). He is also a Computational Engineering Intern at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in the Turbulence Analysis & Simulations Center (TASC). 

At CHANL he is supporting work for the development of aerothermodynamic and surrogate models; at TASC he is supporting work for validation and verification of a Large Eddy Simulation (LES). For his dissertation, he is studying compressible turbulence at hypersonic speeds. He is using results from Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) to develop wall models, and structural sub-grid models for Large Eddy Simulation (LES). 

Besides being interested in turbulence and hypersonic flows; Martin is interested in modeling and simulation work of plasma physics for nuclear fusion applications such as Tokamaks and Stellarators. 

Prior to joining the UoA, Martin worked at Raytheon Missile Systems as a Modeling, Simulations Eng. (2018 - 2020) and at Norfolk Naval Shipyard as a Nuclear Radiological Materials Eng. (2016 - 2018).