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3052 François-Xavier Bagnoud Aerospace Building
1320 Beal Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2140
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Biography
Additional Title(s)
- Graduate Program Chair, Scientific Computing
Professor Powell is a member and past director of the W. M. Keck Foundation Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, and a co-founder and co-director of the Center for Space Environment Modeling and the the Center for Radiative Shock Hydrodynamics. At the undergraduate level, he teaches freshman computing, compressible flow, aerodynamics and aircraft design; at the graduate level, he teaches aerodynamics and computational fluid dynamics. His research interests include: algorithm development for fluid dynamics, aerodynamics and plasmadynamics; and the application of computational methods to problems in aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, fluid dynamics and space environment/space weather. His articles appear in Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Computational Physics, and Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, among others. He is also a co-author of Multi-Media Fluid Mechanics. He has received a number of awards for his research, including a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, and a number of awards for his teaching, including the Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship. He is married to Susanne Maria Krummel; they have three children: Jasmine, Ryan and Nicole.
Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- ScD Aerospace Engineering ’87
- SM Aerospace Engineering ’84
- SB Aerospace Engineering and Mathematics ’82
Teaching
- AERO 325 – Aerodynamics
- AERO 225 – Fluid Dynamics
- AERO 481 – Aircraft Design
- AERO 524 – Aerodynamics II
Research Interests
Computational Fluid Dynamics, Compressible Flow, Aerodynamics, Numerical Methods for Plasmas, Computational Space Physics
Aerodynamics and Propulsion
Professional Service
- Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- American Geophysical Union
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Sigma Xi
- Tau Beta Pi
Awards
- Tau Beta Pi Teaching Award (1988, 1999, 2005)
- College of Engineering Team Research Excellence Award (1999, 2014)
- College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award (1992)
- College of Engineering 1938 E Award
- Sigma Gamma Tau Teaching Award (1989, 1995)
- NSF Presidential Young Investigator (1988)
- NASA Special Achievement Award (1989)
- College of Engineering MLK Spirit Award (2020)