Research & Projects

In my junior summer, I built my own blood pump PIV experiment set-up from the beginning without the guidance of any Post-doc, PhD, or master students. I have been continuing to research the optimization methods of blood pumps.

K. Ucak, F. Karatas, K. Pekkan

Effect of impeller rotational phase on the FDA blood pump velocity fields (Artificial Organs, Q2, 2024)

K.Ucak, F. Karatas, E. Cetinkaya, K. Pekkan

Synchronous PIV measurements of a self-powered blood turbine and pump couple for right ventricle support (Nature Scientific Reports, Q1, 2024) 

Undulatory Propulsion at Milliscale on Water Surface, 

Z. Ren, K. Ucak, Y. Yan, M. Sitti, 

Advanced Science (Q1, 2024)

WENO5 was implemented in MATLAB to solve 2D double mach reflection problem. 

2D channel flow with an obstacle problem was solved with the forward time-centered space (FTSC) scheme implementation in MATLAB scripts and verified with ANSYS Fluent results. 

My colleagues and I designed an impact drill as a term project during our Sophomore year Siemens NX design course. Despite the pandemic, we finalized the project remotely according to the reverse engineering principles. We measured every part with our calipers and got a grade of A for our project and exams.