Aerodynamics
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Core Faculty Members |
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Gustaaf (Guus) Jacobs
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Joseph Katz |
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Professor Katz has a wide variety of research interests in the following areas: internal
combustion engines: cooling, carburation; powerplant optimization; passenger car safety;
two phase flow cooling; heat transfer and heat exchangers; wind tunnel measurements,
including laser doppler anemometry in two phase flows; non-conventional naval propulsion
e.g.: undulating propellers, swimming fins; non-steady aero and hydrodynamics; potential
flow and general fluid dynamics; general aviation piston engine cooling and drag reduction;
post-stall-spin aerodynamics; automotive aerodynamics and dynamics; lifting body airplane;
transonic wings; and stall resistant configurations.
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Xiaofeng Liu |
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Nagy Nosseir |
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Allen Plotkin |
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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. Prof. Plotkin was elected to AIAA Associate Fellow in 1978 and ASME
Fellow in 1991, He is the recipient of the AIAA Sustained Service Award in 2003 and
the ASEE/AIAA J. Leland Atwood Award in 2005. Prof. Plotkin co-authored with Prof.
Joseph Katz on the book “Low-Speed Aerodynamics” (Second Edition) published by Cambridge
University Press in 2001.
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