Aerospace Engineering Faculty and Research Interests

Dynamics & ControlDavid L. Richardson, Professor - Numerical simulation methods, nonlinear dynamicalsystems analysis, analytical and numerical orbit propagation techniques.

Gary L. Slater, Professor - Analysis of air traffic control: software and strategies foradvanced air traffic control systems. Command and control of unmanned air vehicles.

Bruce K. Walker, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies - Parameterestimation for aircraft and engines, gas turbine engine control systems, simulation ofcomplex systems for control design, combustion control, fault detection and healthmonitoring for fault tolerant control systems.

Trevor Williams, Professor - Control of multi-satellite formations, dynamics of extra-vehicular activity (EVA) maneuvering systems, dynamics and control of flexible structuresand numerical methods for control.

Propulsion, Heat Transfer, and Fluid MechanicsShaaban Abdallah, Professor - Computational methods for turbomachinery andpropulsion system analysis.

Peter J. Disimile, Associate Professor - Experimental fluid mechanics/heat transfer,measurement and analysis of steady and unsteady turbulent flows, development of flowfield diagnostics, fire and explosion science.

Kirti N. (Karman) Ghia, Professor - Flow separation, bluff-body wakes, high incidenceaerodynamics, vortex dynamics, unsteady flows, theory of chaos, transition, turbulence,flow control, jet mixing. Analytical and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) withemphasis on development of efficient algorithms, higher-order techniques, spectralmethods, LES and DNS techniques, direct solvers, large-scale scientific computing andobject-oriented programming.

Ephraim Gutmark, Professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar - Fluid mechanics andaerodynamics, flow and combustion control, aeroacoustics and jet noise suppression, gasturbines for power generation and propulsion, and heat transfer for turbines and airfoils.Applications to aerospace propulsion systems including rockets, scramjets and pulse-detonation engines, plume signatures, fire dynamics and suppression, oil well drilling,hydrodynamics, and advanced diagnostics.

Awatef Hamed, Professor and Department Head - Computational aeroacoustics, air-breathing engine dynamics, multi-phase flow in propulsion systems, propulsion systemintegration.

San-Mou Jeng, Professor - Combustion and combustor science and technology: fuelinjection, spray atomization, swirling flows, two-phase chemically reactive flows,combustion dynamics, heat transfer, emissions, advanced experimental methods and

diagnostics, modeling of combustion processes, applications of CFD tools, and systemdesign.

Prem Khosla, Professor and Assistant Department Head - Computational aerodynamics:supersonic inlets and nozzles, numerical methods.

Paul D. Orkwis, Associate Professor - Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis ofsteady and unsteady turbomachinery flow fields; modeling and simulation of synthetic,pulsed, directed and vortex generator jets for flow control applications; advanced artificialintelligence-based lower order modeling; combustor/turbine interaction; compressor off-design performance simulations and optimization techniques.

Asif Syed, Research Professor - Aeroacoustics, duct acoustics and acoustic liner designtechnology; combustion “Howl, Growl and Screech” in the main combustors and theafterburners of turbofan engines; experimental techniques for research in sound absorbingmaterials and advanced acoustic liner concepts.

Widen Tabakoff, Professor - Propulsion systems, multi-phase flows in turbomachinery,heat transfer, space vehicle and engine performance and deterioration.

Mark G. Turner, Research Professor - Turbomachinery design methods andaerodynamics: CFD, unsteady and average passage multistage analysis, full 3-D turbofanengine simulations, parallel processing, and parametric design of compressor and turbineconfigurations. Highly loaded compressor and turbine designs, aeromechanics of unsteadyseparated flow, and cooled turbine heat transfer and aerodynamics.

Structures & Solids GroupJandro Abot, Assistant Professor -

Peter B. Nagy, Professor - Experimental ultrasonics, materials characterization and non-destructive evaluation (NDE) of materials and structures.

Ala Tabiei, Associate Professor - Structural stability, finite element (FE) simulation ofstrength and deformation of composite materials, implementation of material models intoFE codes, crashworthiness simulation.

James E. Wade, Associate Professor - Wave propagation, finite element methods andstructural analysis.

Richard Young, Associate Professor - Finite element methods.