Welcome
I'm a Professor at Purdue University in
the School of Aeronautics and
Astronautics.
Here area some movies of recent zero-gravity fluids work: Me in action.
And, fluid statics work with Ken Brakke’s great Surface
Evolver code:
with Lockheed Martin commercial satellite folks
with Lev Slobozhanin and Iwan Alexander from CWRU
Here is Study Abroad
information for May 2008.
My graduate student list is out of date, they just get so much accomplished
so quickly:
Ph.D.:
- Terry Salyer, differential
interferometry, (salyer@ecn.purdue.edu)
- Haiyun Li, cavitation,
(haiyun@ecn.purdue.edu)
- Yongkang Chen, Purdue High Repitition
Rate Drop
Tower,
(yongkang@ecn.purdue.edu)
- Charlie Kim, Diesel
combustion simulations.
M.S.:
- Paul Sanchez, statistics of
cavitation length in orifice flows.
- Budi Chandra, orifice flow
cavitation spectra
- Jens Lindqvist, turbofan
aerodynamics.
- Stephen Krautheim, turbofan
bypass-duct aerodynamics.
- Ken Miller, turbofan
bypass-duct aerodynamics.
Former Students, reverse chronological order:
- Mark Henry, MS,
May, 1997. Experimental Investigation of a Cavitating Slot Orifice. Now at SpendOnLife.com.
- Rob Bayt, MS,
August, 1995. End Cap Effects on Vapor Bubble Stability in the Gravity
Probe-B Main Helium Tank. Now a Ph.D. with Boeing in Houston..
- Joe McGuire, MS, August,
1994. Fluid Dynamic Perturbations using Laser Induced Breakdown.
- Terry Salyer, MS, May,
1994. Quantitative Noise Reduction Measurements of a Multiple-Source
Schlieren System. Now at Los Alamos.
Non-thesis students who completed substantial
independent work with me:
- Derek Pecson, MS, Dec.,
1995. ``Motion of a Bubble in a Self-Gravitating Liquid'', as published in
Microgravity Science and Technology, V. IX, no. 2, 1996. Now at
Lockheed-Martin Company, in Sunnyvale,
CA.
- Joe Gasper, MS, May, 1993,
``Paraxial Optics Design''.
Want to contact me? Tired of surfing to find an answer? Can't find what you
need in my pages?
Phone: (765)494-2339 FAX: (765)494-0307
School of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2045
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