Oleg Vasilyev

Biography

Prior to joining Skoltech, Dr Vasilyev served as a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of Multiscale Modeling and Simulation Laboratory at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. He received his MSc degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1991, and the MSc and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, in 1994 and 1996, respectively.  Prior to joining the University of Colorado, Dr. Vasilyev worked in the USA as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Missouri, Columbia (1998-2002) and Research Fellow at the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford University (1996-1998). Professor Vasilyev has a broad experience of leadership in research, teaching and service. He supervised the research of graduate and postdoctoral students of Multiscale Modeling and Simulation Laboratory that he had chaired for 14 years. In addition, Dr Vasilyev was actively involved in the graduate program of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado. He served on the Graduate Studies Committee for 10 years, two of which he chaired a committee. Prof. Vasilyev conducts research in the general area of theoretical and computational fluid mechanics with the emphasis on the  creation of novel adaptive approaches for modeling and simulation of complex multi-scale phenomena, development of low order “physics-capturing” models and robust computational methodologies with tight integration of the numerics and physics-based modeling, and applications of these novel approaches to challenging multi-scale/multi-physics fluid problems of engineering and scientific interest. Prof. Vasilyev research has been supported by grants from National Science Foundation (NSF), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Naval Research (ONR), Caterpillar Inc., and United Sates Industry Coalition (USIC), with awards exceeding $11M ($4M as PI).  Prof. Vasilyev is the author and co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications. He has given more than 200 lectures at conferences at universities around the world. In recognition of his accomplishments Prof. Vasilyev has been recently elected the recipient of Fredric William Basel Research Award from Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, which is granted to scientists and scholars, internationally renowned in their field. In 2012 Prof. Vasilyev received the honor of being elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society “for pioneering work on adaptive wavelet methods for Computational Fluid Dynamics, fundamental contributions to the advancement of Adaptive Large Eddy Simulation approach and explicit filtering in LES, and the development of volume penalization methods for compressible flows.” In 2015 Prof. Vasilyev received a privilege of being elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers “for the continuous and systematic effort in the development of a unified modeling and computational multi-scale framework that can be used for efficient modeling and simulation of complex multi-scale phenomena.”

Research Interest

Computational Fluid Dynamics Wavelet Methods for Modeling and Simulation of Complex Multi-Scale Phenomena Theoretical and Numerical Studies in Turbulence Large Eddy Simulations of Turbulent Flows Turbulence Modelin