Faculty

Dale Ian Pullin

Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics

Degrees and Appointments

B.Sc., University of Melbourne, 1966; B.E., University of Sydney, 1968; Ph.D., University of London (Imperial College), 1974. Visiting Associate, Caltech, 1990; Professor, 1991-2006, von Karman Professor, 2006-.

Research Overview

Professor Pullin focuses on computational and theoretical fluid mechanics, vortex dynamics, compressible flow and shock dynamics, turbulence, and large-eddy simulation of turbulent flows.

Space-Related Research

Fluid dynamics at the mean-free path scale; statistical models of gas-surface interaction, rarefied gas dynamics.

List of Research Areas

computational and theoretical fluid mechanics, vortex dynamics, compressible flow and shock dynamics, turbulence, large-eddy simulation of turbulent flows

Research Centers

Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program