OUR PEOPLE
Academic Credentials
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University, 2024
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 2017
Professional Honors
- Office of Science Graduate Student Research Fellowship, 2022
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2019
- Sibley Prize for Excellence in Graduate Teaching Assistance, 2019
- Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, 2017
- Best Poster Award, Colorado School of Mines Graduate Research and Discovery Symposium, 2017
Dr. Kincaid is a mechanical engineer in Ä¢¹½tv's Thermal Sciences practice with a background in fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, and heat transfer. He specializes in turbulent combustion, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), chemical kinetic modeling, and machine learning.
Dr. Kincaid has extensive experience in simulating turbulent flames, including direct numerical simulations (DNS) and large eddy scale (LES) turbulence modeling. He has experience in implementing numerical methods for chemical reactions in existing CFD codes. He also has experience in numerical methods for simulating multiphase flows including solid particle-laden flows, and liquid-gas flows.
Dr. Kincaid is proficient in coding in Fortran, C++, Python, and MATLAB. He has extensive experience with the chemical kinetic modeling software Cantera, as well as several commercial CFD codes including Ansys Fluent and COMSOL.
Prior to joining Ä¢¹½tv, Dr. Kincaid was a graduate researcher in the Mechanical and Aerospace Department at Cornell University where he developed reduced-order chemical kinetic models to reduce the computational cost of reacting flow simulations. During his Ph.D. research, he developed a framework to represent and robustly simulate the chemical kinetics of a sustainable aviation fuel with artificial neural networks. He also developed a new mechanism reduction methodology for plasma-assisted combustion (PAC) technologies.
Prior to his Ph.D., Dr. Kincaid worked at the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) as a Thermal Systems Intern where he developed thermal and optical models for concentrated solar power plants. Dr. Kincaid also has experience with HVAC equipment, building energy modeling, and renewable energy systems.