GAS TURBINE LABORATORY SEMINAR

DATE:                        Thursday, 23 February 2023

TIME:                         4:00pm 

LOCATION:              31-270

SPEAKER:                Wesley Harris, Charles Stark Draper Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

TOPIC:                       A Half-Century of Research in Fluid Dynamics: Hemodynamics to Hypersonics
 

ABSTRACT:

This lecture will speak on the primary engineering challenges, related research hypotheses, relevant questions, appropriate research tools, and assessment of results in selected areas of hypersonics, helicopter rotor acoustics, unsteady nonlinear transonics, and hematology. This corpus of work is driven by seminal achievements of outstanding graduate students, often working in mutual critical groups. This diversity of research investigations is matched by the diversity of participating graduate students, including racially underrepresented, women, and international students. The supporting (sustainable) research ecosystem also contributed to the quality of the process and results.

BIO:
Currently, Dr. Wesley L. Harris is a Charles Stark Draper Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT. He served as Head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT, 2003-2008, an Associate Administrator for Aeronautics, NASA, 1993-1995, performed as Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, Tennessee (1990-1993), and served as Dean of the School of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Connecticut (1985-1990). His academic research is associated with unsteady aerodynamics, aeroacoustics, rarefied gas dynamics, sustainment of capital assets, hypersonics and chaos in sickle cell disease. He has served on committees of the AIAA, AHS, NTA, and was elected Vice President of NAE in 2022. Received PhD, Princeton University, 1968.