Welcome
I'm a Professor at Purdue University in
the School of Aeronautics and
Astronautics, which is in the College of Engineering. I’ve been here since January, 1991
involved in numerous exciting projects.
Rather than lists of accomplishments for people to count, here’s a
link to download a pdf-file I use, as an informal curriculum vita if you will, that
illustrates what I’ve enjoyed doing for all these years: informalCV. If you like video, here I am with two
undergraduate students in my AAE418 class: video.
Graduate Students
My graduate student list is
up to date for July, 2022. It goes
out of date rapidly; they just seem to get so much accomplished so quickly.
Ph.D.:
- Guillermo Jaramillo, Effects of momentum thickness on
liquid jet instabilities.
M.S.:
- Dylan Graulich, Lunar Lander
Plume Impingement Heating Experiment.
- Jordan Soberg, Cryogenic
Zero-gravity Bubble Formation Experiment
- Vishank Battar, Integrated
Zero-gravity Surgery Suite and Suction System
Former
Students, reverse chronological order:
- Praveen Srikanth, PhD, Determination of Cryogenic
Accommodation Coefficient, 2019.
- Samantha Alberts, PhD, Cryogenic Gauging Technology
Development, 2018.
- Robert Beggs, MS, Conformal Small-sat Propellant Tank
Flight Experiment, 2022.
- Logan Walters, MS, Liquid Propellant Positioning and Control
in Example Propellant Tank,
2021.
- Emily Beckman, MS, Small-sat Propellant Slosh, 2020
- Trevor Jahn, MS, Zero-gravity Droplet Stability,
2018.
- Ayah Zahour,
MS, Prevention of aero-elastic
excitation in high mast lighting towers, 2016.
- Praveen Srikanth, MS, Dynamics of Capillary Transitions, 2015.
- Samantha Alberts, MS, Large length-scale Thermalcapillary
Convection Experiment Design, 2014.
- Adam Loesch, MS, Upper-Stratospheric Glider Flights for
Low-g Experimentation, 2013.
- Jaime Ocampo, PhD, Vortex Shedding Lock-in on Tapered
Bodies of Various Polygonal Cross-Sections, 2013.
- David Benson, MS, December,
2011, Fluid Physics Design for
Third-Generation Vane-Gap Space Station Experiment.
- Lauren Sharp, MS, August,
2011, Three-Dimensional Critical
Wetting Experiment in Microgravity.
- Jaime Ocampo, MS, December
2010, Decelerator for the New Purdue
Drop Tower
- Jacqueline Jaron, MS, August,
2008, Static Two-Phase Solutions in
Laterally-Compressed Circular Cylinders in Zero Gravity.
- Jonathan Braun, MS, May,
2008, Zero-Gravity Two-Phase
Stability Solutions of Droplets in a Bent Circular Cylinder.
- Budi W. Chandra, PhD,
October, 2006. Flow Physics in Turbine Engine Oil
Sumps.
- Robert E. Manning, MS,
August, 2006, Spaceflight-relevant
Capillary Fluid Physics.
- Kuo-Tung
Tseng, PhD, May, 2006. Micro-Fluidic Spray Control.
- Yongkang Chen, PhD, August,
2003. A Study of Capillary Flow in a Vane-wall Gap in Zero Gravity.
- Shannon L. Fitzpatrick, MS,
May, 2003. A Study of Hydrogen Peroxide
Low-Gravity Control for Propellant Management Devices.
- Terry Salyer, PhD, May,
2002. Laser Differential Interferometry for Supersonic Blunt-Body
Receptivity Experiments.
- Thomas J. Hoverman, MS, May,
2002. A New Air Assist / Air Blast Atomizer.
- M. Stephen Krautheim, MS, May, 2002. High
Reynolds Number Duct-Strut Flow in Turbofans.
- Daniel J. Radocaj, MS,
December, 2001. Experiments in Turbine Engine Oil Sump
Flows.
- David Ong, MS, August,
2000. Investigation of Cavitation in Circular and Slot Orifices with a
Step.
- Jens Lindqvist, MS, May, 2000. High
Reynolds Number Turbofan Bypass Duct Flows with Lift.
- Haiyun
Li, PhD, December, 1999. Experiments in Cavitating Orifice
Flows.
- Budi W. Chandra, MS,
December, 1999. Temporal Characteristics of Small-Scale
Cavitating Flows.
- Paul K. Sanchez, MS, May,
1999. Rigorous Investigation of Cavitation in a 2-D Slot Orifice.
- Mark Henry, MS, May,
1997. Experimental
Investigation of a Cavitating Slot Orifice.
- Robert Bayt, MS, August,
1995. End Cap Effects on
Vapor Bubble Stability in the Gravity Probe-B Main Helium Tank.
- 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.
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