Mert Dinçer, a Mechanical Engineering student from Yıldız Technical University, successfully completed a 10-week summer internship at the Computational Modeling and Simulation Lab, Istanbul Technical University. He worked under the mentorship of Emre Cenk Ersan. The program was designed to provide hands-on experience in advanced computational modeling techniques, with a particular focus on fluid–structure interaction (FSI) problems relevant to cardiovascular applications.

Throughout the internship, Mert studied the fundamentals of FSI, Arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian (ALE) methods, and coupling strategies, while implementing simulations using OpenFOAM, solids4Foam, and preCICE. He successfully reproduced well-known benchmark cases such as the Elastic Tube and Hron–Turek problems, and extended his work to blood flow modeling in the left coronary artery branch. His project highlights both methodological insights and the computational challenges of simulating realistic arterial flow, while also providing recommendations for future improvements including mesh optimization and GPU-based computing. This work contributes to the lab’s mission of advancing computational tools for cardiovascular research.

We sincerely congratulate him for his efforts and wish him continued success in his academic and professional journey.