Dr. Andrew J. Banko Assistant Professor Director - Technical Scholars Program Civil and Mechanical Engineering Center for Applied Engineering andrew.banko [at] westpoint.edu About Education Research & Publications Dr. Andrew J. Banko is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the West Point Technical Scholars Program (TSP). He earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2014 and 2018, respectively. Prior to coming to West Point, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford's Center for Turbulence Research. Dr. Banko's research investigates turbulent mixing in complex systems using a variety of experimental methods, including optical and medical imaging techniques. Recent applications include indoor and outdoor air quality in urban areas, heat and mass transfer in energy and propulsion systems, reduced-order modeling of turbulent transport, and the development of advanced measurement techniques using magnetic resonance imaging. As director of the TSP, Dr. Banko leads program efforts on cadet mentorship, technical communication instruction, external speaker engagements, community building events, and scholarship application administration. Ph.D. Stanford University M.S. - Stanford University B.S. - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Research Interests Turbulent flows, Heat and mass transfer, Experimental fluid dynamics, laser diagnostics, magnetic resonance imaging, statistical and reduced-order modeling Current Research Turbulent dispersion in urban areas for air quality management and emergency response, Effects of additively manufactured surfaces roughness on gas turbine film cooling, Heat transfer in particle-laden flows with application to renewable energy systems, Magnetic resonance imaging for complex turbulent flow measurement Selected Publications Banko, Andrew J., and John K. Eaton. "Particle dispersion and preferential concentration in particle-laden turbulence." Modeling Approaches and Computational Methods for Particle-Laden Turbulent Flows (2023): 43-79.Banko, Andrew J., Michael J. Benson, F. Todd Davidson, Wasif Zia, Alireza Bordbar, Christopher Boyce, Emma M. Veley, and Karen A. Thole. "Effects of Surface Roughness on Three-Dimensional Flow Structure Within Shaped Film Cooling Holes." In Turbo Expo: Power for Land, Sea, and Air, vol. 87004, p. V07AT12A023. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2023.Lav, Chitrarth, Andrew J. Banko, Fabian Waschkowski, Yaomin Zhao, Christopher J. Elkins, John K. Eaton, and Richard D. Sandberg. "A coupled framework for symbolic turbulence models from deep-learning." International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 101 (2023): 109140.Homan, Ty A., Michael J. Benson, Andrew J. Banko, Christopher J. Elkins, Daniel H. Chung, Joshua Rhee, Lynne D. Mooradian, and John K. Eaton. "Magnetic Resonance Imaging measurements of scalar dispersion for a scaled urban transient release." Building and Environment 205 (2021): 108163.Benson, Michael J., Andrew J. Banko, Christopher J. Elkins, Don-Gwan An, Simon Song, Martin Bruschewski, Sven Grundmann, Daniel D. Borup, and John K. Eaton. "The 2019 MRV challenge: turbulent flow through a U-bend." Experiments in Fluids 61 (2020): 1-17.Banko, Andrew J., Michael J. Benson, Ian E. Gunady, Christopher J. Elkins, and John K. Eaton. "An improved three-dimensional concentration measurement technique using magnetic resonance imaging." Experiments in Fluids 61 (2020): 1-19.Banko, Andrew J., Laura Villafañe, Ji Hoon Kim, and John K. Eaton. "Temperature statistics in a radiatively heated particle-laden turbulent square duct flow." International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 84 (2020): 108618.Banko, Andrew J., Laura Villafañe, Ji Hoon Kim, Mahdi Esmaily, and John K. Eaton. "Stochastic modeling of direct radiation transmission in particle-laden turbulent flow." Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 226 (2019): 1-18.Banko, Andrew J., Filippo Coletti, Christopher J. Elkins, and John K. Eaton. "Oscillatory flow in the human airways from the mouth through several bronchial generations." International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow 61 (2016): 45-57.Banko, Andrew J., Filippo Coletti, Daniele Schiavazzi, Christopher J. Elkins, and John K. Eaton. "Three-dimensional inspiratory flow in the upper and central human airways." Experiments in Fluids 56 (2015): 1-12.