Andres Goza

Assistant Professor

agoza@illinois.edu

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Education

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 2018, Thesis title: "Numerical methods for fluid-structure interaction, and their application to flag flapping", Thesis advisor: Tim Colonius
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 2013
B.S. Mechanical Engineering (Minor in Computational and Applied Mathematics), Rice University, 2011

Academic Positions

Affiliate Assistant Professor (0% Appointment), Computational Science and Engineering, January 2019 - present
Affiliate Assistant Professor (0% Appointment), Mechanical Science and Engineering, January 2019 - present
Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering, January 2019 - present
Postdoctoral Researcher, Princeton University, 2017 - 2018, Postdoctoral Advisor: Clarence Rowley

Research Interests

Unsteady Aerodynamics
Fluid-Structure Interaction
Computational Fluid Dynamics

Research Areas

Selected Articles in Journals

E Thompson, A Goza, "Adjoint-based optimal actuation for separated flow past an airfoil." Physics of Fluids 37.3. 2025. doi:10.1063/5.0257571
A Borra, Z Flynn, A Goza, T Saxton-Fox. "Intrinsic phase-based proper orthogonal decomposition (IPhaB POD): a method for physically interpretable modes in near-periodic systems". Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2025;1002:A18. doi:10.1017/jfm.2024.1061
AK Othman, NJ Nair, A Goza, A Wissa, "Feather-inspired flow control device across flight regimes." Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 18(6), 066010. 2023. DOI: 10.1088/1748-3190/acfa4f
NJ Nair, A Goza, "Bio-inspired variable-stiffness flaps for hybrid flow control, tuned via reinforcement learning", Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Rapids), 956: R4. 2023. doi:10.1017/jfm.2023.28
ET Thompson and A. Goza, "Surface morphing for aerodynamic flows at low and stalled angles of attack", Physical Review Fluids 7(2), 2022.
NJ Nair, Z Flynn, A Goza, "Numerical Study of Multiple Bio-Inspired Torsionally Hinged Flaps for Passive Flow Control", Fluids (Invited), 7 (2): 44. 2022.
NJ Nair, A Goza, "A strongly coupled immersed boundary method for fluid-structure interaction that mimics the efficiency of stationary body methods", Journal of Computational Physics, 454: 110897. 2022
C Huertas-Cerdeira, A Goza, JE Sader, T Colonius, M Gharib, "Dynamics of an inverted cantilever plate at moderate angle of attack", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 909: A20. 2020. DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2020.922
NJ Nair, A Goza, "Leveraging reduced-order models for state estimation using deep learning," Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Rapids), 897: R1. 2020. DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2020.409
A Goza, D Floryan, C Rowley, "Connections between resonance and nonlinearity in swimming performance of a heaving flat plate," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 888: A30. 2020. DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2020.60
A Goza, T Colonius, J Sader, "Nonlinear simulations and global mode analysis of inverted flag flapping," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 857: 312-344. 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2018.728
A Goza, T Colonius, "Modal decomposition of fluid-structure interaction with application to flag flapping," Journal of Fluids and Structures, 81:728-737. 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2018.06.014
A Goza, T Colonius, "A strongly-coupled immersed-boundary formulation for thin elastic structures," Journal of Computational Physics, 336:401-411. 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2017.02.027
A Goza, S Liska, B Morley, T Colonius, "Accurate computation of surface stresses and forces with immersed boundary methods," Journal of Computational Physics, 321:860-873. 2016. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2016.06.014

Articles in Conference Proceedings

A Machado Burgos, S Park, N O'Brien, KH Matlack, A Goza, "Fluid-Structure Interaction Between an Unsteady Vortex-Driven Aerodynamic Flow and a Diatomic Phononic Subsurface", AIAA SciTechForum, 2024. Orlando, Florida.
Z Flynn, A Goza, "Flow Physics of a Passive Flap on a Dynamically Pitched Airfoil", AIAA SciTech Forum, 2023. National Harbor, Maryland.
EJ Thompson, A Goza, "Optimal surface morphing using adjoint optimization", AIAA SciTech Forum, 2023. National Harbor, Maryland.
S Balasubramanian, S Park, K Matlack, A Goza, "Harnessing Phononic Materials for Aerodynamic Flow Control", AIAA Aviation Forum, 2022. Chicago, Illinois.
S Park, G Hristov, S Balasubramanian, A Goza, P Ansell, K Matlack, "Design and Analysis of Phononic Metastructure for Passive Flow Control", AIAA Aviation Forum, 2022. Chicago, Illinois.
NJ Nair, A Goza, "Effects of Torsional Stiffness and Inertia on a Passively Deployable Flap for Aerodynamic Lift Enhancement", AIAA SciTech Forum, 2022. San Diego, California.
Z Abidi, A. Goza, B.C. Houchens, "Simulations of flow past a mirrored airfoil configuration inspired by an energy-harvester", AIAA SciTech Forum, 2022. San Diego, California.
A Goza, "Flow-induced flapping of an inverted flag with non-uniform stiffness distribution", AIAA SciTech Forum, 2022. San Diego, California.
A Goza, T Colonius, “A global mode analysis of flapping flags,” Proceedings for the Tenth International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP10). Chicago, Illinois. 2017.