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:

Kyle Alfriend
James Turner

Lecturers:

N/A

Joint Faculty:

Gholamreza Langari

Emeritus Faculty:

Donald Ward

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:

Daniel Davis

Lecturers:

Kristi Shryock

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

TEES Research Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Astrodynamics
  • Satellite attitude dynamics and control
  • Space debris
  • Space surveillance
  • Space Systems Engineering

Amine Benzerga

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Deformation and fracture metals
  • Plasticity
  • Dislocation dynamics
  • Nanomechanics

Raktim Bhattacharya

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Nonlinear Systems
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Optimization
  • Anytime Control Algorithms
  • Real-Time Embedded Systems

Rodney Bowersox

Associate Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Fluid mechanics
  • High-speed aerodynamics
  • Propulsion
  • Turbulence
  • Flow control
  • Wind tunnel design

James Boyd

Associate Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Nano electromechanical systems (NEMS)
  • Multifunctional materials
  • Smart structures, sensors, and actuators

Leland Carlson

Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • Transonic aerodynamics
  • Aerothermodynamics
  • Hypersonics
  • Aircraft design

Suman Chakravorty

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Intelligent exploration systems
  • Stochastic dynamical systems: Fokker Planck equations
  • Space-based high resolution imaging systems
  • Reinforcement learning and applications

Paul Cizmas

Associate Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Propulsion
  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • Unsteady aerodynamics and Aeroelasticity

Sharath Girimaji

Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Fluid mechanics
  • Turbulence
  • Computational fluid dynamics

Walter Haisler

Professor and Director of Graduate Programs

Areas of Interest:

  • Finite element methods
  • Materials properties
  • Structural analysis

John E. Hurtado

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Theoretical mechanics
  • Structural dynamics
  • Cooperative dynamics and controls
  • Orbital mechanics

David Hyland

Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Control design
  • Synthesis and analysis methods
  • Dynamic methods

Yongmei Jin

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Materials modeling and computer simulation
  • Microstructure evolution in multiferroic materials
  • Microstructure-mechanism-property relationships
  • Solid state phase transformations

John Junkins

Distinguished Professor
Holder of the George J. Eppright Chair in Engineering
Director, Center for Mechanics and Control

Areas of Interest:

  • Dynamics and control of spacecraft
  • Astronautics
  • Analytical and numerical methods

Tamas Kalmar-Nagy

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Control of autonomous vehicles
  • Networked control systems
  • Systems with delay
  • Nonlinear dynamics

Vikram Kinra

General Dynamics Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Solid mechanics
  • Wave propagation
  • Damping
  • Ultrasonic NDE
  • Experimental methods

Dimitris Lagoudas

Professor and Holder of the John & Bea Slattery Chair
Director of Texas Institute for Intelligent Bio-Nano Materials and Structures for Aerospace Vehicles (TiiMS)

Areas of Interest:

  • Micromechanics of composite materials
  • Damage mechanics
  • Active materials and structures

Adonios Karpetis

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Combustion/Microcombustion
  • Propulsion
  • Turbulence
  • Two-phase flows
  • Cryogenics
  • Laser diagnostics

Daniele Mortari

Associate Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Orbital mechanics and constellations
  • Attitude determination systems
  • Space surveillance and reconnaissance
  • Algorithms and data processing

Zoubeida Ounaies

Assistant Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Active materials and nanocomposites
  • Coupling in polymeric materials

Thomas Pollock

Associate Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Materials properties
  • Structural design
  • Spacecraft

Othon Rediniotis

Associate Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV)
  • Vortex dynamics
  • Steady and unsteady delta-wing dynamics
  • Flow visualization

Helen L. Reed

Professor and Department Head

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

Senior Lecturer and TEES Research Associate Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Hypersonic and space propulsion CFD
  • Hemodynamics
  • Lattice-Boltzmann methods
  • Spectral element methods

William S. Saric

Stewart & Stevenson Services II Chair Professor

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

Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Transport phenomena (continuum mechanics)
  • Solid mechanics
  • Fluid mechanics
  • Energy transfer
  • Mass transfer
  • Thermodynamics
  • Electromagnetism

Thomas Strganac

Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Aeroelasticity
  • Structural dynamics
  • Nonlinear dynamics

Theofanis Strouboulis

Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Numerical methods in solid and fluid mechanics
  • Computational fluid mechanics
  • Finite element methods

Ramesh Talreja

Tenneco Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Deformation and failure of composites
  • Fatigue damage mechanisms
  • Statistical assessment of strength
  • Damage tolerance

S. Rao Vadali

Stewart and Stevenson Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Dynamics and control of space vehicles
  • Nonlinear systems
  • Orbital mechanics
  • Formation flying
  • Trajectory optimization

John Valasek

Associate Professor

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

Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Composites and fracture mechanics
  • Solid mechanics
  • Computational methods

Ed White

Associate Professor

Areas of Interest:

  • Aerodynamics
  • Aircraft drag reduction
  • Aircraft icing

Directors of Centers by Name & Research Interests

Daniel Davis

Director of Operations, TiiMS

Areas of Interest:

  • Fatigue
  • Nanomaterials
  • Ducation

James Turner

Director of CASS

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

Interim Director of AVSI

Areas of Interest:

  • Software reliability
  • Autonomous ground vehicles