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Faculty Research Interests

The faculty who make up the Aerospace Engineering Graduate Studies Committee are listed below along with their research interests. 

* indicates the Faculty Area Coordinator.

Aerothermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics

Clemens, Noel T.

Compressible/reacting turbulent flows, combustion, laser diagnostics

*Goldstein, David B.

Computational fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, turbulence, aircraft icing

Raja, Laxminarayan L.

Computational modeling and experimental studies of low-temperature glow discharge plasmas

Raman, Venkat

Turbulence and combustion, large-eddy simulations, statistical methods for turbulent reactive flows, parallel computations

Tinney, Charles

Turbulence, stochastic estimation, aeroacoustics, control, unsteady aerodynamics, separated and shear flow phenomena

Varghese, Philip L.

High-temperature gas dynamics, nonequilibrium flows, laser diagnostics of combustion and plasmas

Computational Mechanics

Dawson, Clint

Computational mathematics, modeling of surface and subsurface flows

Demkowicz, L. F.

Computational mechanics and applied mathematics

Hughes, Thomas J.R.

Computational mechanics, isogeometric analysis, mutliscale methods, phase-field modeling, cardiovascular bioengineering, complex fluids and turbulence

Oden, J. Tinsley

Computational mechanics, numerical solution of partial differential equations, computational and applied mathematics

Wheeler, Mary F.

Numerical solution of coupled partial differential equations; modeling reactive and multiphase flows and parallel computations


Solids, Structures, and Materials

Huang, Rui

Mechanics of materials in small dimensions, thin film structures, computational mechanics, multiscale modeling and simulations

Kyriakides, Stelios

Stability of solids, structures, and materials; plasticity; composite materials

Landis, Chad

Mechanics of materials, smart materials, fracture mechanics

* Liechti, Kenneth M.

Composite materials, fracture mechanics, adhesive bonding

Lu, Nanshu

Mechanics of thin films on compliant substrates, flexible electronics and bio-electronics

Mear, Mark E.

Solid mechanics, micromechanics, fracture mechanics, boundary element methods

Ravi-Chandar, K.

Solid mechanics, fracture mechanics, mechanical behavior of materials at high strain rates, viscoelasticity

Rodin, Gregory J.

Solid mechanics, fracture of materials



Structural Dynamics

*Bennighof, Jeffrey K.

Computation in structural dynamics, control of flexible structures

Sirohi, Jayant

Micro-aerial vehicles, rotorcraft design, technologies for next-generation vertical flight, adaptive structure

Guidance and Control

Akella, Maruthi

Nonlinear adaptive control, estimation theory, dynamical systems

*Hull, David G.

Flight mechanics, optimization, trajectory optimization, guidance

Orbital Mechanics

Bettadpur, Srinivas

Orbital mechanics; orbit determination; space geodetic analysis & mission design (Earth's shape, orientation & gravity field)

Duncombe, Raynor L.

Astrometry from space, space reference frames, motions of principal planets and minor planets

Fowler, Wallace T.

Flight testing, orbital mechanics, spacecraft/mission design

Humphreys, Todd

Estimation and filtering, satellite navigation technology and security, software-defined radio

Lightsey, E. Glenn

Satellite design, spacecraft dynamics and control, sensors and actuators

Mark, Hans

Engineering science, electro-magnetic launch systems, history of space flight

Ocampo, Cesar

Orbital mechanics, optimization, trajectory optimization, dynamical systems

Russell, Ryan

Orbital mechanics, astrodynamics, spacecraft trajectory design methods

*Schutz, Bob E.

Orbital mechanics, dynamics, satellite geodesy, numerical methods

Tapley, Byron D.

Satellite applications, geodesy, optimal estimation and control