Philip L. Varghese Distinguished Teaching Professor Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics The University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station, C0600  Austin, TX 78712  TEL: (1) 512-471-3110 FAX: (1) 512-471-3788 e-mail contact

Background | Research | Teaching:  ASE 362K |

Summary

Prof. Varghese is the Director of the Center for Aeromechanics Research and teaches courses in Aerothermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics. His research is based on understanding the basic molecular processes occurring in engineering systems which requires a combination of physics and chemistry with traditional fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and thermodynamics. His experimental work is focused on optical diagnostics especially laser-bsed measurements. His computational work involves the study of rarefied flows using direct simulation Monte Carlo methods and numerical solution of the Boltzmann equation using discrete velocity schemes. His research is applied to the study of combustion, plasmas, and micro-plasma thrusters, and modeling of rarefied flows.

Education

• B.Tech (First Class with Distinction), Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 1976
• M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Syracuse University, 1977
• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 1983

Background

• Post Doctoral Fellow, Molecular Physics Laboratory, SRI International, 1983
• Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, UT Austin, 1983 - 1988
• Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, UT Austin, 1988 - 1989
• Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Department, UT Austin, 1989 - 1995
• Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Department, UT Austin, 1995 - present
• Director, Center for Aeromechanics Research, Fall 1999 - present
• Department Chair, Fall 2009 - Fall 2012
  

Research

• Optical diagnostics and laser-based sensors
• Combustion
• Plasmas
• Non-equilibrium flow modeling via Direct Simulation Monte Carlo and numerical solution of the extended Boltzmann equation
• Current funding from NASA, US Air Force.
• Recent Papers
• For some more details go to Current Research

Teaching

• ASE 376K Propulsion
• ASE 382R.6/ME381Q.4 Molecular Gas Dynamics

• ASE 382R Molecular Gas Dynamics II: Advanced Kinetic Theory
  

• ASE 320 Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
• ASE 362K Compressible Flow (Blackboard Link)

Awards and Honors

• Professor of the Year, UT Senate of College Councils, 2012
  
• Fellow, European Conference for Aero-Space Sciences, 2009
• Academy of Distinguished Teachers, The University of Texas at Austin, 2005.
• Associate Fellow, AIAA, 2004
• The Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Award for Excellence in Engineering Teaching, 2003
• Stanley P. Finch Centennial Professorship in Engineering, Fall 2002
• Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Teaching Award, 2001
• Harry H. Power Professorship in Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2000-2002.
• Boeing - A.D. Welliver Faculty Summer Fellowship, 1998.
• Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, 1993.
• More ...

Memberships

• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Associate Fellow
• EUCASS, Fellow
  
• The Combustion Institute
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Optical Society of America
• American Physical Society
• Society of Automotive Engineers
  

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