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John
O. Dabiri
Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Bioengineering
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Mechanics and dynamics of biological propulsion; Lagrangian analysis of fluid transport in vortex flows; fluid dynamic energy conversion; fluid dynamic efficiency of unsteady propulsion; biological flow velocimetry/dynamometry; acoustic diagnostics of cardiac
dysfunction; jellyfish swimming and feeding behaviors |
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CHIARA
DARAIO
Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Applied Physics
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Chiara
Daraio’s interests reside at the interface
of materials science, condensed matter physics, and solid
mechanics, particularly in the design, development, and
testing of multi-scale metamaterials; phononic crystals;
responsive soft matter; tunable acoustics; highly nonlinear
solitary waves; mechanical and electronic properties
of nano and biomaterials; advanced characterization of
materials (high resolution TEM, in-situ analysis, FIB,
AFM); synthesis, fabrication and assembly of nanomaterials
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Paul
E. Dimotakis
John K. Northrop Professor of Aeronautics and Professor
of Applied Physics;
Chief Technologist JPL
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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 |
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Morteza
Gharib
Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and
Professor of Bioengineering
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Vortical flows and flow/structure
interaction; turbulent bubbly shear flows; development
and application of advanced quantitative flow; imaging
techniques; bio-fluid dynamics; nanoscale fluid mechanics |
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BEVERLEY McKEON
Assistant Professor of Aeronautics
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Manipulation of wall-bounded flows; physics and control of canonical flows; smart morphing skins for flow control; adaptive biomimetic surfaces |
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Michael
Ortiz
Dotty and Dick Hayman Professor of Aeronautics
and Mechanical Engineering
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Solid mechanics: simulation of dynamic
response of materials; design and testing of materials, multi-scale;
simulation of dynamic fracture and fragmentation of shell
structures; simulations of stress corrosion cracking; numerical
simulation of shockwave lithotripsy |
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Sergio Pellegrino
Professor of Aeronautics
and Civil Engineering
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Structural mechanics; novel concepts for deployable and adaptive space structures; deployment kinematics and dynamics; analysis of lightweigt structures and model verification studies; ultra-thin composite materials; bistable and multistable shells and space frames; deployment and stability of balloons. |
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Dale
I. Pullin
Theodore von Kármán Professor of
Aeronautics
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Theoretical and computational fluid mechanics; rarefied gas dynamics, vortex dynamics, compressible flow, shock-wave dynamics, hydrodynamic stability, turbulence and turbulent mixing, combustion, magnetohydrodynamics, numerical algorithms for computational fluid dynamics |
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Guruswami Ravichandran
John E. Goode Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical
Engineering
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Mechanics of materials: deformation and failure of solids; active materials and structures (ferroelectrics; shape memory alloys; MEMS); bio materials; bulk metallic glasses; composite materials; stress waves; dynamic behavior; experimental mechanics |
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Ares J. Rosakis
Theodore von Kármán Professor of
Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering
Director of the Graduate Aeronautical
Laboratories
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Mechanics of solids, dynamic failure of heterogeneous solids, impact mechanics, reliability of microelectronic
components, wafer-level metrology, dynamic frictional rupture of interfaces, mechanics of earthquake processes, laboratory seismology, spacecraft shielding, reliability of space materials and structures |
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Joseph E. Shepherd
C. L. "Kelly" Johnson Professor of Aeronautics and
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
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Fluid dynamics, structural dynamics, and combustion chemistry with an emphasis on explosion, shock, and detonation waves |
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SANDRA
M. TROIAN
Professor of Applied Physics, Aeronautics, and Mechanical Engineering
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Micro/nanoscale transport in liquid films and interfaces
including confinement effects, instabilities and phase transitions; biological
flows triggered by capillary or Marangoni stresses; micro/optofluidic devices
based on electrical, thermal or acoustic fields; lithographic patterning by thermocapillary
forces; non-normality and instabilities at low Reynolds number; molecular dynamics
simulations of liquids near patterned boundaries |
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Faculty Associate
Jakob vanZyl
Faculty Associate in Electrical Engineering and Aeronautics
Lecturers
Dr. James Breckinridge
Lecturer in Aeronautics
Greg Davis
Lecturer in Aeronautics
Robert (Rob) M. Manning
Lecturer in Aeronautics
James Polk
Lecturer in Aeronautics
Marco Quadrelli
Lecturer in Aeronautics
Mike Watkins
Lecturer in Aeronautics
Jakob vanZyl
Lecturer in Electrical Engineering and Aeronautics
EmeritI
FacultY
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Donald E. Coles
Professor of Aeronautics, Emeritus
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Fred
E. C. Culick
Richard L. and Dorothy M. Hayman Professor of Mechanical
Engineering and Professor of Jet Propulsion, Emeritus
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Nonlinear acoustics in combustion
systems; active and passive
control of combustion systems; experimental work in combustion |
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Hans
Hornung
C. L. “Kelly” Johnson Professor of Aeronautics,
Emeritus
Director of
GALCIT, Emeritus
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Wolfgang
G. Knauss
Theodore von Kármán Professor of
Aeronautics and Applied Mechanics, Emeritus
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Fracture, polymer mechanics, time dependent materials (plastics) |
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Anthony
Leonard
Theodore von Kármán Professor of
Aeronautics, Emeritus
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Computational fluid dynamics, unsteady and separated
flows, turbulence and mixing |
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Hans
W. Liepmann
Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics,
Emeritus
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Frank
E. Marble
Richard L. and Dorothy M. Hayman Professor of Mechanical
Engineering and Professor of Jet Propulsion, Emeritus
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Anatol
Roshko
Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics,
Emeritus
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