General Interest Areas
Aero-Fluid Dynamics
Faculty:
Rodney Bowersox
Leland Carlson
Paul Cizmas
Sharath Girimaji
Adonios Karpetis
Othon Rediniotis
Helen L. Reed
William S. Saric
Ed White
Research Faculty:
N/A
Lecturers:
Jacques Richard
Issac Ekoto
Jeffrey Hostetler
Joint Faculty:
N/A
Emeritus Faculty:
N/A
Dynamics and Controls
Faculty:
Raktim Bhattacharya
Suman Chakravorty
Johnny Hurtado
David Hyland
John Junkins
Dr. Tamas Kalmar-Nagy
Daniele Mortari
Thomas Pollock
Thomas Strganac
Srinivas Vadali
John Valasek
Research Faculty:
Lecturers:
N/A
Joint Faculty:
Emeritus Faculty:
Materials and Structures
Faculty:
Amine Benzerga
James Boyd
Walter Haisler
Yongmei Jin
Vikram Kinra
Dimitris Lagoudas
Zoubeida Ounaies
John Slattery
Theofanis Strouboulis
Ramesh Talreja
John Whitcomb
Research Faculty:
Lecturers:
Joint Faculty:
Michael Pilant, MATH
J.N. Reddy, CPSC, MEEN, MSEN
Jay Walton, MATH, MSEN
Emeritus Faculty:
N/A
Directors of Centers
Daniel Davis, TiiMs
Fred Fisher, AVSI
Jim Turner, CASS
Faculty by Name & Research Interests
Kyle T. Alfriend
Areas of Interest:
- Astrodynamics
- Satellite attitude dynamics and control
- Space debris
- Space surveillance
- Space Systems Engineering
Amine Benzerga
Areas of Interest:
- Deformation and fracture metals
- Plasticity
- Dislocation dynamics
- Nanomechanics
Raktim Bhattacharya
Areas of Interest:
- Nonlinear Systems
- Autonomous Systems
- Optimization
- Anytime Control Algorithms
- Real-Time Embedded Systems
Rodney Bowersox
Areas of Interest:
- Fluid mechanics
- High-speed aerodynamics
- Propulsion
- Turbulence
- Flow control
- Wind tunnel design
James Boyd
Areas of Interest:
- Nano electromechanical systems (NEMS)
- Multifunctional materials
- Smart structures, sensors, and actuators
Leland Carlson
Areas of Interest:
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Transonic aerodynamics
- Aerothermodynamics
- Hypersonics
- Aircraft design
Suman Chakravorty
Areas of Interest:
- Intelligent exploration systems
- Stochastic dynamical systems: Fokker Planck equations
- Space-based high resolution imaging systems
- Reinforcement learning and applications
Paul Cizmas
Areas of Interest:
- Propulsion
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Unsteady aerodynamics and Aeroelasticity
Sharath Girimaji
Areas of Interest:
- Fluid mechanics
- Turbulence
- Computational fluid dynamics
Walter Haisler
Areas of Interest:
- Finite element methods
- Materials properties
- Structural analysis
John E. Hurtado
Areas of Interest:
- Theoretical mechanics
- Structural dynamics
- Cooperative dynamics and controls
- Orbital mechanics
David Hyland
Areas of Interest:
- Control design
- Synthesis and analysis methods
- Dynamic methods
Yongmei Jin
Areas of Interest:
- Materials modeling and computer simulation
- Microstructure evolution in multiferroic materials
- Microstructure-mechanism-property relationships
- Solid state phase transformations
John Junkins
Areas of Interest:
- Dynamics and control of spacecraft
- Astronautics
- Analytical and numerical methods
Tamas Kalmar-Nagy
Areas of Interest:
- Control of autonomous vehicles
- Networked control systems
- Systems with delay
- Nonlinear dynamics
Vikram Kinra
Areas of Interest:
- Solid mechanics
- Wave propagation
- Damping
- Ultrasonic NDE
- Experimental methods
Dimitris Lagoudas
Areas of Interest:
- Micromechanics of composite materials
- Damage mechanics
- Active materials and structures
Adonios Karpetis
Areas of Interest:
- Combustion/Microcombustion
- Propulsion
- Turbulence
- Two-phase flows
- Cryogenics
- Laser diagnostics
Daniele Mortari
Areas of Interest:
- Orbital mechanics and constellations
- Attitude determination systems
- Space surveillance and reconnaissance
- Algorithms and data processing
Zoubeida Ounaies
Areas of Interest:
- Active materials and nanocomposites
- Coupling in polymeric materials
Thomas Pollock
Areas of Interest:
- Materials properties
- Structural design
- Spacecraft
Othon Rediniotis
Areas of Interest:
- Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV)
- Vortex dynamics
- Steady and unsteady delta-wing dynamics
- Flow visualization
Helen L. Reed
Areas of Interest:
- Boundary-layer transition and flow control
- Hypersonic flow
- Micro-/Nano-satellite design
- Satellite constellations and formation flying
- Interplanetary missions
- Micropropulsion
- Uninhabited aerial vehicles
Jacques Richard
Areas of Interest:
- Hypersonic and space propulsion CFD
- Hemodynamics
- Lattice-Boltzmann methods
- Spectral element methods
William S. Saric
Areas of Interest:
- Wind-tunnel and flight experiments
- Boundary-layer stability and transition
- Laminar flow control
- Low-Reynolds-number aerodynamics
- Hydrodynamic stability
- Nonlinear waves
- Stratified fluids
- Taylor-Görtler vortices
- Flight measurements of air quality
John Slattery
Areas of Interest:
- Transport phenomena (continuum mechanics)
- Solid mechanics
- Fluid mechanics
- Energy transfer
- Mass transfer
- Thermodynamics
- Electromagnetism
Theofanis Strouboulis
Areas of Interest:
- Numerical methods in solid and fluid mechanics
- Computational fluid mechanics
- Finite element methods
Ramesh Talreja
Areas of Interest:
- Deformation and failure of composites
- Fatigue damage mechanisms
- Statistical assessment of strength
- Damage tolerance
S. Rao Vadali
Areas of Interest:
- Dynamics and control of space vehicles
- Nonlinear systems
- Orbital mechanics
- Formation flying
- Trajectory optimization
John Valasek
Areas of Interest:
- Flight control system analysis and design
- Intelligent and autonomous vehicle control
- Morphing air and space vehicles
- Vision based navigation systems
- Advanced cockpit systems and displays
John Whitcomb
Areas of Interest:
- Composites and fracture mechanics
- Solid mechanics
- Computational methods
Ed White
Areas of Interest:
- Aerodynamics
- Aircraft drag reduction
- Aircraft icing
Directors of Centers by Name & Research Interests
Daniel Davis
Areas of Interest:
- Fatigue
- Nanomaterials
- Ducation
James Turner
Areas of Interest:
- Multibody dynamics
- Multi-physics domain simulations
- Advanced robotics automatic differentiation
- Numerical methods nonlinear problems
- Optimization
- Control/estimation theory and application
Fred Fisher
Areas of Interest:
- Software reliability
- Autonomous ground vehicles
