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Paul E. Dimotakis
John K. Northrop Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Applied Physics; Chief Technologist JPL

B.Sc., Physics - California Institute of Technology, 1968
M.Sc., Nuclear Engineering - California Institute of Technology, 1969
Ph.D., Applied Physics - California Institute of Technology, 1973

1200 East California Boulevard, MS 301-46
Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
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Turbulent mixing and chemical reactions in subsonic and supersonic free-shear flows; hypersonic propulsion; hydrocarbon flames under variable-pressure conditions; Rayleigh-Taylor-instability flows; mixing and the geometry of surfaces and interfaces in turbulence; scalar dispersion in turbulent flows; aerooptical effects in turbulent free-shear flows; image correlation velocimetry.

Space-Related Research: High-speed/hypersonic endoatmospheric flight and propulsion; high-speed and computational imaging.

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