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Melissa Brindise

Assistant Professor

Affiliation(s):

  • Mechanical Engineering

301B Reber Building

mcb5351@psu.edu

814-865-4729

Research Website

Research Areas:

Biomedical/Bioengineering; Experimental Fluid Dynamics; Thermal/Fluid Sciences

Interest Areas:

Cardiovascular flows: flow in cerebral aneurysms, traumatic brain injury (TBI), cognition, heart disease; experimental fluid mechanics; transition to turbulence in pulsatile flows; automated methods development

 
 

 

Education

  • B.S., Aeronautical Engineering, Purdue University, 2013
  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 2019

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Sandy Karam, Nikhil Shirdade, Benjamin Madden, Justin Rheinstadter, Ephraim Church, Melissa Brindise and Guha Manogharan, 2023, "Additive manufacturing of patient-specific high-fidelity and thickness-controlled cerebral aneurysm geometries", Manufacturing Letters, 35, pp. 770-777
  • Melissa Brindise, Keving Buno, Luis Solorio and Pavlos Vlachos, 2023, "Automated Layer Identification for Skin Tissue Histology Images", Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 51, (2), pp. 443-455
  • Jiacheng Zhang, Sean Rothenberger, Melissa Brindise, Michael Markl, Vitaliy Rayz and Pavlos Vlachos, 2022, "Wall Shear Stress Estimation for 4D Flow MRI Using Navier-Stokes Equation Correction", Annals of Biomedical Engineering, pp. 1-16
  • Brett Meyers, Melissa Brindise, Shelby Kutty and Pavlos Vlachos, 2022, "A method of direct estimation of left ventricular global longitudinal strain rate from echocardiograms", Scientific Reports, 12, (1), pp. 1-11
  • Jiacheng Zhang, Melissa Brindise, Sean Rothenberger, Michael Markl, Vitaliy Rayz and Pavlos Vlachos, 2022, "A multi-modality approach for enhancing 4D flow magnetic resonance imaging via sparse representation", Royal Society Interface, 19, (186), pp. 202110751
  • Melissa Brindise, Brett Meyers, Shelby Kutty and Pavlos Vlachos, 2021, "Automated peak prominence-based iterative Dijkstras algorithm for segmentation of B-mode echocardiograms", IEEE Transactions of Biomedical Engineering, 69, (5), pp. 1595-1607
  • Jiacheng Zhang, Sean M. Rothenberger, Melissa Brindise, M. B. Scott, H. Berhane, J. J. Baraboo, Michael Markl, V. L. Rayz and Pavlos P. Vlachos, 2021, "Divergence-free constrained phase unwrapping and Denoising for 4D flow MRI using weighted least squares", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 40, (12), pp. 3389-3399
  • Melissa Brindise, Brett A. Meyers and Pavlos Vlachos, 2020, "Universality of vortex ring decay in the left ventricle", Journal of Biomechanics, 103, pp. 109695
  • Jiacheng Zhang, Melissa Brindise, Sean Rothenberger, S. Schnell, M. Markl, D. Saloner, V. L. Rayz and Pavlos P. Vlachos, 2019, "4D Flow MRI Pressure Estimation using Velocity Measurement-Error based Weighted Least-Squares", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 39, (5), pp. 1668-1680
  • Melissa Brindise, Sean Rothenberger, B. Dickerhoff, S. Schnell, M. Markl, D. Saloner, V. L. Rayz and Pavlos P. Vlachos, 2019, "Multi-modality cerebral aneurysm haemodynamic analysis: in vivo 4D Flow MRI, in vitro particle velocimetry, and in silico computational fluid dynamics", Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 16, (158), pp. 20190465
  • Melissa Brindise, Margaret Busse and Pavlos Vlachos, 2018, "Density- and viscosity-matched Newtonian and non-Newtonian blood-analog solutions with PDMS refractive index", Experiments in Fluids, 59, (11), pp. 1-8
  • Melissa Brindise and Pavlos Vlachos, 2018, "Pulsatile pipe flow transition: Flow waveform effects", Physics in Fluids, 30, (1), pp. 015111
  • Melissa Brindise and Pavlos Vlachos, 2017, "Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Truncation Method for Data Denoising and Order Reduction", Experiments in Fluids, 58, (4), pp. 1-18
  • Melissa Brindise, Claudio Chiastra, Francesco Burzotta, Francesco Migliavacca and Pavlos Vlachos, 2017, "Hemodynamics of Stent Implantation Procedures in Coronary Bifurcations: An In Vitro Study", Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 45, (3), pp. 542-553

Research Projects

  • February 2024 - January 2027, "Characterizing Transition to Turbulence in Pulsatile Pipe Flow," (Sponsor: National Science Foundation).
  • April 2022 - March 2025, "Evaluating the effect of transient inflow waveforms in cerebral aneurysms," (Sponsor: American Heart Association).

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