Dr. Nosseir conducted research in the general area of fluid dynamics with emphasis
on turbulent flows, aerodynamic noise, micro-fluidics, and experimental techniques.
He has taught courses in fluid dynamics, airplane design, and applied mathematics.
International Lecturer Program Award, “Micro-systems Design”, from Bad-Wurttemberg
Scholarship, 2005.
Most Influential AE-Faculty, SDSU, 2005.
Grant-in-Aid, “Micro-inclinometer”, SDSU, 2000
Grant entitled “Concurrent Design and Manufacturing Engineering” from DOD, Defense
Conversion Program, (submitted by J. Pinto, principal investigator), $270 K, 1998.
I wrote and developed the Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) portion of the grant.
Grant-in-Aid “Air Bubble Plume as an Oil Barrier,” SDSU, 1996.
Grant entitled “Graduate Research and Training in Hypersonics”, from NASA, submitted
jointly with USC, $90 K, 1988-90.
Grant entitled “Upgrading of Data Acquisition System for Wind-Tunnel Laboratories”,
from NSF, $48 K, 1989.
Navy-ASEE Summer Research Fellowships, 1989-1994. The research projects were conducted
at the NWC Propulsion Research Laboratory, (1989 and 1990), and NOSC (1991-1994).
Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise (MPPP) Awards from SDSU, 1987 and
1990.
Grant entitled “Experimental Investigation of Flow Induced Oscillations in a Side-Dump
Ramjet Combustor”, from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), $130 K, 1984-1988.
Grant-in-Aid, “Experimental Investigation of Air Bubble Plumes”, from SDSU Foundation,
1984.
Grant-in-Aid “Development of a Novel Technique for Turbulence Measurement”, from SDSU,
1983.
Developed “Optical Pressure Transducer Based on Randomly Distributed Fiber Optics,”
with Ho, C.M. and Plocher, D., U.S. Patent No. 873857.
Developed “Fiber Optic Velocity Transducer”, patent pending.
Member of AIAA, American Physical Society, and Sigma Xi.
Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California, 1997.
M.A.Sc., Aerospace Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada, 1973.
Ho, C. M. and N. S. Nosseir, “Dynamics of an Impinging Jet. Part I: The Feedback Phenomenon”,
J. Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 105, pp. 119-142, 1981.
Nosseir, N. S. and S. Behar, “Characteristics of Jet Impingement in a Side-Dump Combustor”,
AIAA Journal, Vol. 24, Nov. 1986, pp. 1752-1757.
Nosseir, N. S., “Impinging Jets”, Chap. 13, Vol. 2, Encyclopedia of Fluid Mechanics,
1986, Cheremisinoff, Editor, Gulf Publishing.
Nosseir, N. S., U. Peled and G. Hildebrand, “The Pressure Field Generated by Jet-on-Jet
Impingement”, AIAA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 10, 1987, pp. 1312-1317.
Ziereman, S., Gutmark, E. and Nosseir, N., “Characteristics of Two Adjacent Rectangular
Jets”, AIAA Paper No. 92-0237, 1992.
Ladd, Park, Hendricks, and Nosseir, “Active Control of Oscillatory Lift Forces on
a Circular Cylinder”, AIAA Paper No. 93-3277, 1993.
Nosseir, N. S. and H. S. Ribner, “Tests of Theoretical Model of Jet Noise”, AIAA Paper
No. 75-436, 1975.
Nosseir, N. S. and C. M. Ho, “Dynamics of an Impinging Jet. Part II: The Noise Generation”,
J. Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 116, pp. 379-391, 1982.
Nosseir, N. S., U. Peled and G. Hildebrand, “Tones Generated Due to the Impingement
of Two Jets on Each Other”, Proceedings of the 23rd JANNAF Combustion Meeting, NASA/Langley
Research Center, CPIA Pub. 457, Vol. 1, pp. 459-468, 1986.
Nosseir, N. S., “A Novel Technique for Turbulence Measurements”, Proceedings of the
58th Semi-Annual STA Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, 1982.
Nosseir, N. S. and B. Dagan, “Tests of a Fiber-Optic Velocity Transducer”, Experiments
in Fluids 3, Springer-Verlag, 239-243, 1985.
M. Reichardt, U. Mescheder, and N. Nosseir,”Simulation of a Micro-Fabricated Inclinometer,”
Proceedings of the Int. Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine
and Bio-Sciences (METMBS’00), pp. 309-314, 2000.
