Van Rees Lab

Computational Applied Science & Engineering @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Xinjie Ji awarded Mathworks Engineering Fellowship

    Xinjie Ji awarded Mathworks Engineering Fellowship

    Xinjie Ji, graduate student in our lab, has received a AY22-23 MathWorks Engineering Fellowship. She has used Matlab extensively in her education and research so-far, and we’re happy and grateful to MathWorks that her expertise is recognized with this fellowship.

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  • Open postdoc position

    Update : the position has been filled. We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher with a strong computational science background to pursue research in multiresolution simulations of 3D partial differential equations representing coupled multiphysics phenomena. The postdoctoral researcher will work on theoretical aspects of combining wavelet-based multiresolution methods and high-order structure-preserving…

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  • Army Research Office Early Career Award

    Army Research Office Early Career Award

    Wim M. van Rees received an Early Career Award from the Army Research Office for his proposal entitled “The dynamic evolution of helicity and twist, and their role in vortex instabilities“. We’re very excited to be able to continue our work on vortex dynamics with support from this program!

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  • Department of Energy Early Career Award

    Department of Energy Early Career Award

    Wim M. van Rees received a FY2020 Department of Energy Early Career Award for his proposal entitled “A Multiresolution Sharp-interface Framework for Tightly-coupled Multiphysics Simulations“. Thanks to everyone who contributed in the lead-in to this project! This award will enable us to continue pushing the frontiers in computational science. The…

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  • APS/DFD 2019 poster award

    APS/DFD 2019 poster award

    Our poster at the 2019 APS DFD conference won an APS/DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion Award! Click here to see the contribution, showcasing the flow field during vortex bursting.

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  • Shape-shifting structures

    Shape-shifting structures

    Our latest article, published in PNAS, is featured on MIT News and Harvard SEAS News ! The article and SI can be downloaded from our publications page.

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  • James Gabbard wins MathWorks Engineering Fellowship

    James Gabbard, graduate student in our lab, has received a AY19-20 MathWorks Engineering Fellowship. He has used Matlab extensively in his education and research so-far, and we’re happy to see his expertise recognized!

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  • Source-code for simulation of growing thin sheets released

    Source-code for simulation of growing thin sheets released

    As part of our published paper in Soft Matter, we have released on source code that underlies our simulation algorithm on GitHub under the open-source BSD-3 clause. The code forms the basis for our simulations of non-Euclidean plates and growing thin sheets, and is easy to adapt to different problems…

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  • Helicity dynamics of thin-core vortices

    Helicity dynamics of thin-core vortices

    This summer I published an article in Science, together with Prof. William Irvine and his group at the University of Chicago, discussing our results on the dynamics of helicity in a viscous fluid. Helicity is a scalar quantity that measures the intertwining of vortex lines in a fluid domain. In ideal…

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  • Website under construction

    We’re launching the lab website (and lab) during November — stay tuned for more content, pictures & videos!

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