Jonathan Komperda, PhD

Clinical Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Contact

Building & Room:

2021 ERF

Address:

842 West Taylor Street, MC 251, Chicago, IL 60607

Office Phone:

312.355.2327

Virtual Appointment:

http://go.uic.edu/jonkofficehours

Email:

jonk@uic.edu

About

Jonathan Komperda instructs the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering senior design capstone curriculum, where he advises and manages students performing projects with industry partners. Komperda also teaches Numerical Methods for Engineers.

Research Interests:

Computational fluid dynamics
Turbulence
Direct numerical simulation
Filtered mass density function
Particle tracking algorithms
Combustion
Parallelization and high-performance computing
Spray and atomization

Selected Grants

US Army, Rapid Additive Manufacturing of Electrically Integrated Drone Arms, Principal Investigator

US Army, Route the Gap: A Semi-Autonomous Wet Gap Crossing, Principal Investigator

Selected Publications

J. Komperda, A. Peyvan, D. Li, B. Kashir, A.L. Yarin, C.M. Megaridis, P. Mirbod, I. Paprotny, L.F. Cooper, S. Rowan, C. Stanford, F. Mashayek. “Computer simulation of the SARS-CoV-2 contamination risk in a large dental clinic.” Physics of Fluids, 33, 2021.

J. Komperda, Z. Ghiasi, D. Li, A. Peyvan, F. Jaberi, F. Mashayek. “A hybrid discontinuous spectral element method and filtered mass density function solver for turbulent reacting flows.” Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B: Fundamentals, 78(1):1-29, 2020.

D. Li, A. Peyvan, J. Komperda, F. Mashayek. “Compressibility effects on energy exchange mechanisms in a spatially developing plane free shear layer.” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 910, 2021.

Z. Ghiasi, J. Komperda, D. Li, A. Peyvan, D. Nicholls, F. Mashayek. “Modal explicit filtering for large eddy simulation in discontinuous spectral element method.” Journal of Computational Physics: X, 3:100024, 2019.

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Service to Community

Jonathan Komperda serves as the administrator of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering's computational clusters Dragon and Hydra. Additionally, he is the faculty advisor for the UIC Society of Automotive Engineers and UIC Motorsports.

Notable Honors

2023, Silver Circle Award for Teaching Excellence, University of Illinois Chicago

2021, Teaching Award, UIC College of Engineering

2021, Advising Award, UIC College of Engineering

2020-2021, Honors College Fellow, University of Illinois at Chicago Honors College

2018-2021, Campus Champion, Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE)

2018, Silver Circle Award for Teaching Excellence, University of Illinois at Chicago

2017, Teaching Award, UIC College of Engineering

2016, Teaching Scholar, UIC Center for the Advancement of Teaching-Learning Communities

Education

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering
University of Illinois Chicago, 2021

M.S., Mechanical Engineering
University of Illinois Chicago, 2015

B.S., Mechanical Engineering
University of Illinois Chicago, 2010

Licensures and Certifications

Inclusive Education Scholar - Center for the Advancement of Teaching Excellence
IISE: Root Cause Analysis
Certified Solidworks Associate - Mechanical Design
Certified Solidworks Associate - Additive Manufacturing
ANSYS Fluent
ANSYS Mechanical

Professional Memberships

Society of Automotive Engineers - Member
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - Member
Institute for Industrial and Systems Engineers - Member