Paul E. Dimotakis
John K. Northrop Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Applied Physics
Research interests: fluid physics, dynamics of turbulence, chemically reacting flows, and combustion
Overview
Professor Dimotakis focuses on experimental and computational research on turbulent mixing and chemical reactions in subsonic and supersonic free-shear flows; hypersonic propulsion; mixing and the geometry of surfaces and interfaces in turbulence; scalar dispersion in turbulent flows; and related areas.
Space-Related Research
Recent space-related research has been in collaboration with JPL on remote sensing of the atmosphere from space and on the technical feasibility of an asteroid-return mission. Other space-related research has been on high-speed/hypersonic endoatmospheric flight and propulsion, and parachute dynamics for entry, descent, and landing, as well as physics and issues related to a Europa melt-probe to descend to the liquid-water layer.
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- Dimotakis, Paul E.;Lang, Daniel B. (2023) Liquid‐water and solid‐Ice fields surrounding a descending melt probe
- Sharan, Nek;Matheou, Georgios et al. (2019) Turbulent shear-layer mixing: initial conditions, and direct-numerical and large-eddy simulationsJournal of Fluid Mechanics
- Luthman, Elizabeth;Cymbalist, Niccolo et al. (2019) Simulating schlieren and shadowgraph images from LES dataExperiments in Fluids
- Sharan, Nek;Matheou, Georgios et al. (2018) Mixing, scalar boundedness, and numerical dissipation in large-eddy simulationsJournal of Computational Physics
- Dimotakis, Paul E.;Prince, Thomas A. et al. (2018) Asteroid Retrieval Technology Development From the Asteroid Return Mission Study
- Gat, Ilana;Matheou, Georgios et al. (2017) Incompressible variable-density turbulence in an external acceleration fieldJournal of Fluid Mechanics
- Candler, Graham V.;Cymbalist, Niccolo et al. (2017) Wall-Modeled Large-Eddy Simulation of Autoignition-Dominated Supersonic CombustionAIAA Journal
- Matheou, Georgios;Dimotakis, Paul E. (2016) Scalar excursions in large-eddy simulationsJournal of Computational Physics
- Cwik, Thomas A.;Dimotakis, Paul E. et al. (2016) Beam-forming concentrating solar thermal array power systems
- Gat, Ilana;Matheou, Georgios et al. (2016) Acceleration-driven variable-density turbulent flow