Nicholas Morse

Nick Morse is a postdoctoral researcher in the Fluid Mechanics group of the Engineering Mechanics Department at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Nick joined KTH in May 2025, where he is supervised by Professors Philipp Schlatter (FAU Erlangen, KTH), Ramis Örlü (OsloMet, KTH), and Mihai Mihaescu (KTH).

Nick earned his PhD in Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics from the University of Minnesota in 2023, under the supervision of Professor Krishnan Mahesh. The focus of his dissertation was the study of curvature and tripping history effects on complex turbulent boundary layers through large-eddy simulations (LES), as well as the study of the vortical structures of perturbed jets in crossflow through direct numerical simulation (DNS) and dynamic mode decomposition (DMD). Before starting at KTH, Nick worked as a Senior Scientist (2023–2025) at the Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering in Graz, Austria.

Nick's research is focused on curvature and rotational effects on turbulent flows, including turbulent boundary layers (TBLs) on curved surfaces, TBLs developing on spinning cones, and transition within the eccentric Taylor-Couette-Poiseuille (eTCP) flow. His research interests lie in leveraging the power of high-fidelity simulations enabled through high-performance computing (HPC) to reveal underlying physical mechanisms that are otherwise difficult to probe with other experimental and numerical approaches.