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Joseph E. Shepherd
C. L. "Kelly" Johnson Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Dean of Graduate Studies

B.S., University of South Florida, 1976
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1981

1200 East California Boulevard, MS 105-50
Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
tel (626) 395-3283
fax (626) 449-2677

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Fluid dynamics, structural dynamics, and combustion chemistry with an emphasis on explosion, shock, and detonation waves.

Space-Related Research: Chemical and electric propulsion systems; explosion hazards in launch vehicles and spacecraft.


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