Alexandra Baumgart
- Program Year: 4
- Academic Institution: California Institute of Technology
- Field of Study: Mechanical Engineering
- Academic Advisor: Guillaume Blanquart
- Practicum(s):
Los Alamos National Laboratory (2021) - Degree(s):
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019
Publications
Baumgart, A. and Blanquart, G., ''A numerical extension of the spatially-filtered Euler equations for contact discontinuities,'' Journal of Computational Physics, 491 (2023), 112353. doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2023.112353Baumgart, A., Beardsell, G., and Blanquart, G., ''Analytical closure to the spatially-filtered Euler equations for shock-dominated flows,'' Journal of Computational Physics, 477 (2023), 111946. doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2023.111946
Baumgart, A. and Anderson, P., ''Finding the weakest link: mechanical sensitivity in a fish cranial linkage system,'' Royal Society open science, 5(10) (2018), 181003. doi:10.1098/rsos.181003
Awards
DAAD-Stiftung Respekt und Wertschaetzung Scholarship, 2022.National Science Foundation GRFP Honorable Mention, 2019.
Bayne Award for Outstanding Senior in Pi Tau Sigma, UIUC, 2019.
MechSE Visionary Scholarship, UIUC, 2018-2019.
John C. & Elizabeth J. Chato Award in Bioengineering, UIUC, 2018.
C. J. Gauthier Scholarship, UIUC, 2017-2018.
Bayne Award for Outstanding Sophomore in Pi Tau Sigma, UIUC, 2017.
Siemens Foundation Merit Scholarship, 2015-2019.
Illinois Engineering Achievement Scholarship, UIUC, 2015-2019.
Margaret L. Gongaware Scholarship, UIUC, 2015-2017.