Department of Aerospace Engineering

Research Focus Areas

Aircraft Icing Micro & Nano Mechanics NDE /healthing monitoring Turbine Science & Technology Winds, Gusts, Tornados Computational Fluid Dynamics


 

Faculty by Aerospace Engineering Discipline

Aerodynamics / Propulsion

  • Chen, Hudong** (lattice gas/Boltzmann methods; statistical physics and kinetic theory, theoretical turbulence and modeling.
  • Cox, Ron (wing design)
  • Haan, Fred  (fluid-structure interactions, wind engineering)
  • He, Guowe** (PDF methods for mixing and chemical reacting turbulent flows, LES of aeroacoustics, high-performance computing, microfluidics
  • Hu, Hui (mixing, flow control, bio flows, optical diagnostics)
  • Hindman, Rich (design optimization, unsteady aero, CFD)
  • Oliver, Jim (UAV, combat coordination, virtual engineering)
  • Rajagopalan, Ganesh (rotorcraft, wind turbines, UAV/MAV, CFD)
  • Rothmayer, Alric (icing physics, asymptotic methods, CFD)
  • Shih, Tom (inlets, turbines, icing, thermoelectrics, CFD)
  • Takle, Gene h(ydrometerology, regional climate modeling and simulation, shelterbelt)
  • Wang, Z.J. (aeroacoustics, electromagnetics, CFD)

Flight Dynamics, Controls, and Optimization

  • Byrd, Bill (spacecraft systems, scientific ballooning)
  • Chung, Soon-Jo (Spacecraft/UAV formation flight, nonlinear control theory, robotics, and space systems)
  • Kelkar, Atul (control of aerospace systems, multi-objective optimization, neural networks)
  • Lu, Ping (aerospace guidance, nonlinear control theory, flight control, optimal control)
  • Sherman, Peter (signal processing, data fusion system)
  • Wie, Bong (space vehicle dynamics and control, astrodynamics, control moment gyros, solar sails,  large flexible space structures, space systems for planetary defense)


Structures / Mechanics and Materials

  • Bastawros, Ashraf (experimental micro and nano mechanics and manufacturing)
  • Biner, S. Bulent (computational materials)
  • Abhijit Chandra (nano mechanics and manufacturing, boundary elements)
  • Chimenti, Dale (ultrasonics, rough surface scattering, NDE)
  • Costas, Soukoulis (electron and photon locatlization, photonic crystals, random lasers, lefthanded materials, random magnetic systems, nonlinear systems and amorphous semiconductors)
  • Dayal, Vinay (composites, smart structures, ultrasonics, NDE)
  • Gray, Tim (NDE)
  • Hilliard, Jim (dynamics)
  • Holger, Dave (acoustics, noise control)
  • Holland, Stephen (thermograhy, ultrasonics, nondestructive evaluation)
  • Hong, Wei (solid mechanics, evolution of microstructures in materials; mechanics of soft materials; biomechanics; modeling and simulation.
  • Hsu, David (composites, ultrasonics, NDE)
  • Jacobson, John (mechanics)
  • Levitas, Valery I. (phase transformations, amorphization, materials and temperature) 
  • McDaniel, T.J. (composites, dynamics of aircraft & space structures)
  • Mitra, Ambar (solid mechanics, inverse problems, manufacturing processes)
  • Rudolphi, Tom (fracture mechanics, boundary elements)
  • Roberts, Ron (NDE)
  • Sarkar, Partha (structural dynamics, wind engineering)
  • Schmerr, Les (artificial intelligence, ultrasonics, NDE)
  • Sturges, Leroy (Rheology and non-Newtonian fluid mechanics)
  • Thompson, Bruce (ultrasonics, probability of detection, NDE)
  • Zachary, Loren (experimental stress analysis)