Professor Plotkin’s research interests are aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, and basic
incompressible fluid mechanics.
The research has emphasized the blending of analytical and computational techniques
for the solution of a wide variety of flow problems, including fluid jets, airfoil
and hydrofoil theory, ground effect, separation, and vortex modeling.
"Thickness and Camber Effects in Slender Wing Theory", AIAA Journal 21, 12, 1983,
1755-7.
"A Second-Order Theory for the Potential Flow About Thin Hydrofoils", (with C. Kennell),
Journal of Ship Research, 28, 1, 1984
"Confined Laminar Wakes at Small and Large Reynolds Number", (with R. W. Mei), Journal
of Engineering Mathematics, 19, 2, 1985, 121-137
"Vortex Panel Calculation of Wake Rollup Behind a Large Aspect Ratio Wing", (with
D. Yeh), AIAA Journal, 24, 9, 1986, 1417-1423;
"Loss of Lift Due to Thickness For Low Aspect Ratio Wings in Incompressible Flow",
(with S. S. Dodbele); Journal of Engineering Mathematics, 21, 1, 1987, 3-16,
"Navier-Stokes Solutions for Some Laminar Incompressible Flow with Separation in Forward
Facing Step Geometries", (with R. W. Mei), AIAA Journal, 24, 7, 1986, 1106-1111;
“Application of Cosserat-Spectrum Theory to the Weakly Compressible Stokes Flow Past
a Sphere”, (with W.Liu), Journal of Engineering Mathematics, 38, 2, 2000, 155-172.
“Low-Speed Aerodynamics”, (with Joseph Katz), Second Edition, Cambridge University
Press, 2001.
