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Minki Kim, Ph.D.

Senior Research Associate

Center for Fluid Mechanics, School of Engineering

Brown University

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Engineering Research Center

345 Brook St, Providence, RI 02912
Email: minki_kim at brown dot edu

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Research Interest

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics for a Sustainable Environment

    • Environmental Fluid Mechanics (oceanic eddy dynamics, ocean-sea ice-wind interaction, sea ice modeling)

    • Multi-Phase/Multi-Physics Flow Systems (bioreactor/cell modeling for cultivated meat, cavitation)

    • High-Fidelity Simulations, High-Performance Computing

Employment

  • Senior Research Associate in Center for Fluid Mechanics, Brown University, 02/2025 – Present

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate in Center for Fluid Mechanics, Brown University, 02/2022 – 02/2025

    • Project 1: Characterizing Arctic Ocean eddies, leveraging sea ice-ocean-wind simulations, satellite observations, and data assimilation methods (Mentor: Professor Monica Wilhelmus).

    • Project 2: Developing an open-source bioreactor simulation toolkit for cultivated meat production (Mentor: Professor Daniel Harris & Radu Cimpeanu).​

Education

Research Grants

  • Open-Source Computational Modeling of Fluid Motion, Mass Transport, and Cellular Dynamics in Bioreactors for Cellular Agriculture

        Daniel M. Harris, Minki Kim (Co-PI) (2024)

        United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute for Cellular Agriculture Seed Grant

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  • Developing an Open-Source Bioreactor Modeling Simulation and AI Optimization Tool for Cultivated Meat Production

        Minki Kim (PI), Daniel M. Harris, Radu Cimpeanu (2024)

        Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS) Explore Project Awards

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  • Numerical Simulations of Shock Waves, Interfacial Instabilities, & Compressible Turbulence

        Eric Johnsen, Minki Kim, Michael Wadas (2019)

        Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) awards for TACC

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  • Inertial Collapse of Individual Bubbles near Solid/Free Boundaries (highlighted)

        Eric Johnsen, Shahaboddin Alahyari Beig, Mauro Rodriguez, Minki Kim (2019)

        Great Lakes Consortium for Pentascale Computation (GLCPC) awards for Blue Waters ​

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Publications

​​In preparation (manuscript available upon request):

       ​ Minki Kim, Georgy Manucharyan, Monica M. Wilhelmus

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  • Energy concentration and release during the inertial collapse of a spherical gas cavity in a liquid (Physical Review Fluids, in second review) ​

 ​                Minki Kim, Shahaboddin Beig, Eric Johnsen​

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        Minki Kim, Daniel M. Harris, Radu Cimpeanu

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       ​ Daniel Watkins, Ellen Buckley, Minki Kim, Monica M. Wilhelmus​​​​​​

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  • Ocean enstrophy spectra inferred from Lagrangian sea ice observations (will be submitted to Geophysical Research Letters)

       ​ Minki Kim, Georgy Manucharyan, Michelle H. DiBenedetto, Ellen M. Buckley, Daniel M. Watkins, Monica          M. Wilhelmus

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  • Energy transport during the inertial collapse of spherical bubbles (will be submitted to Physics of Fluids)

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        Minki Kim, Massoud Kaviany

        International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (2018)​

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        Minki Kim, Massoud Kaviany

        International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (2017)​

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        Minki Kim, Jun Ho Lee, Hyungmin Park

        Experiments in Fluids (2016)​​​

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Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

Research

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Academics​ & Activities​

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Work

Teaching & Mentoring

  • Research Advising
    Brown U. Mentor for Graduate Students
    •    Rebeca Castro, Adam Poche (2024–Present)
    Brown U. Mentor for a Voss Undergraduate Research Fellow in Environmental Science and Communication
    •    Serena Vu (2024–Present)
    Brown U. Mentor for Karen T. Romer Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awardees
    •    Mina Bahadori (2024–Present), Nasir Perera-Olivo (2024–Present), Fabio Villatoro (2024), Leo Zhang (2024–Present), Martins Atilla (2024), Benjamin Newcomb (2022–2023, currently a researcher at MIT nano lab)
    Brown U. Mentor for Undergraduate Research Projects
    •    Simon Hatcher (2022, currently a graduate student at Oxford)
    U. Michigan Mentor for Undergraduate Research Projects
    •    Yuenong Ling (2020–2021, currently a doctoral student at MIT)

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  • Instructor
    •    Global Research Program, Sejong Academy of Science and Arts  (01/2025)

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  • Guest Instructor and Graduate Mentor
    •    Graduate-Level Fluid Mechanics (ENGN 2820), Brown School of Engineering (Spring 2023/2025)
    •    Math Program for Female High School Students, Brown Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (08/2023)        
    •    Undergraduate-Level Fluid Mechanics (ME 320), U. Michigan (Winter 2018, Fall 2019–Summer 2020)
     

Other Experiences

  • Organizer of a social event for polar early career scientists and educators, 02/2024.

  • Mentor of Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee mentoring program, 09/2023 – Present.

  • Mentor of AGU College of Fellows Mentoring Network, 01/2023 – Present.

  • Instructor for Girls Get Math Program, ICERM, Brown U., 08/2023.

  • Mentor of APS DFD Peer-Mentoring program, 11/2022, 11/2023.

  • Vice President and Interim President of Scientific Computing Student Club in U.Michigan, 01/2019 – 12/2021

  • Student Vice President of Phi Kappa Phi Chapter 39 in U. Michigan, 09/2020 – 05/2021.

  • Graduate Mentor in ME at U. Michigan, 05 – 09/2017, 09/2019 – 02/2020.

  • Member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 03/2019 – 12/2021.

  • Chair of SNU-UM Mechanical Engineering Alumnae, 09/2018 – 08/2019.

  • Volunteer of Qualifying Exam practice session in ME at U. Michigan, 10/2018.

  • Mentor of Student Mentoring Program in Seoul National U., 09/2014 – 06/2015.

  • Oboist of Amateur Philharmonic Orchestra in Seoul National U., 03/2009 – 04/2011.

  • Chair & Executive of Catholic Student Association in Seoul National U., 03/2009 – 12/2015.

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