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3004 François-Xavier Bagnoud Aerospace Building
1320 Beal Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2140
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Biography
Positions Held At U-M
- Interim Chair, Department of Aerospace Engineering, 2003-2005
- Associate Chair, Department of Aerospace Engineering, 2001-2003
- Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Education
- Princeton University
- PhD Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences
Research Interests
Supersonic Combustion within Scramjet Experiments
Rocket Combustion (H2-O2) for NASA’s Project Constellation Center at Michigan
Nitric Oxide Formation in General Electric TAPS Jet Engine Combustors
Fundamental Studies of Turbulent Combustion
Research areas:
Aerodynamics and Propulsion
Aerodynamics and Propulsion
Awards
- President, the Combustion Institute, 2016-2020
- Vice President & President-Elect, The Combustion Institute 2012-2016
- Editor, Combustion and Flame, 2003-2009
- Board of Directors, The Combustion Institute
- Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2005
- Technical Program Co-Chair, 28th Symposium on Combustion, Edinburgh, 2000
- AIAA Propellants and Combustion Award for 2013
- The Silver Medal of the Combustion Institute (1998) for the outstanding paper of the
- Twenty-Sixth International Symposium on Combustion Naples, Italy, 1996 (with co-authors C. Mueller, M.C. Drake, D. Reuss)
- Distinguished paper award, 2006 Symposium on Combustion, Heidelberg, with co-author Jeffrey Sutton
- AIAA Best Paper Award-in the area of Propellants and Combustion, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1994 and 2008
- Combustion and Flame Most Cited Author Award for 2005-2008
- Silver Shaft Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2001
- The Research Excellence Award – Department of Aerospace Engineering, 1993
- Outstanding Faculty Member Award for 1982, College of Engineering Class of ’38 Award
- Service Award, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, 2007
- AIAA Service and Leadership Award, 1990
- Interim Chair, Department of Aerospace Engineering, 2003-2005