The University of Texas at Austin
College of Engineering

Charles E. Tinney

Assistant Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Education: Ph.D., Syracuse University

Office Location: W.R. Woolrich Laboratories (WRW)
Room 301A - Mail Code: C0600

Phone: (512) 471-4147

Email: cetinney@mail.utexas.edu

Website: http://www.ae.utexas.edu/facultysites/tinney/

Research Interests:

  • Steady and unsteady aerodynamics
  • Turbulence and shear flow phenomena
  • Aeroacoustics
  • Separating/reattaching flows
  • Open and close-loop flow control
  • Experimental techniques
  • Nonlinear systems
  • Reduced order modeling

Dr. Tinney's research is concentrated on designing novel experiments capable of fostering the development of reduced order models for estimating, predicting and eventually controlling the large-scale mechanisms that are implicit to a variety of turbulent and shear flow phenomena: bluff body flows, separating/reattaching flows, transient flows and jet aeroacoustics.

He joined the Cockrell School of Engineering in Fall 2008 after serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Florida and spending over two years at the University of Poitiers as a post-doctoral fellow of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).

He is a senior member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a member of the American Physical Society and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.