Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics Faculty & Staff

Faculty

Dynamics, Controls & Intelligent Systems

G. Thomas Black

Assistant Professor - Practice, CEAS - Aerospace Eng

732 Rhodes Hall

513-556-2946

blackgr@ucmail.uc.edu

George "Tom" Black is a Assistant Professor - Practice. He teaches undergraduate classes in systems engineering, classical control theory and flight mechanics, and a senior/graduate class in flight test engineering. He retired from his first career - an aerospace engineer at Wright-Patterson AFB - in December 2011 after 34 years, specializing in aircraft flying qualities and flight controls. During that time he was lead flying qualities engineer for the development of the F-22, lead flight sciences engineer for the X-45 UCAV/J-UCAS program, lead flight systems engineer for the KC-X and T-6A/B programs and chief engineer for the Combat Systems Division. He has also worked in AFRL and in technical intelligence, as an aerodynamics and flight test engineer for Beech Aircraft, and as an instructor, a flight instructor and research test pilot for the Ohio State University.

Tom has a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Cincinnati (1977) and an MS in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the Ohio State University (1983). He also has a Commercial Pilot's License with Single-Engine Land, Multi-Engine Land and Instrument Ratings. He has logged over 1,000 flight hours and has flown 50 major types of aircraft, including T-38, P-51, B-26 and Ford Tri-motor. He also has a Remote Pilot License with Small UAS rating. He is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Experimental Aircraft Association, Warbirds of America, and is an Associate Member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots. His research and teaching interests include aircraft flying qualities, air and space vehicle dynamics and controls, and air and space vehicle flight testing.

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Kelly Cohen

Professor, CEAS - Aerospace Eng

745 E Baldwin Hall

513-556-3523

cohenky@ucmail.uc.edu

Dr. Kelly Cohen, the Brian H. Rowe Endowed Chair in aerospace engineering, has been a faculty member at UC's College of Engineering and Applied Science, or CEAS, for more than 10 years and currently serves as interim head of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. His career is marked by achievement in the field of aerospace engineering and education, including the UC Dolly Cohen Award for Excellence in Teaching, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Outstanding Technical Contribution Application Award, the CEAS Distinguished Researcher Award and the Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and Universities Excellence in Teaching Award, among many others.

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Ou Ma

Professor, CEAS - Aerospace Eng

Baldwin Hall

513-556-3747

ou.ma@uc.edu

Smart

Research Interests

Multibody dynamics and control, impact-contact dynamics
Intelligent control of robotics and autonomous systems
Human-robot interaction and collaboration
Smart manufacturing

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Catharine L McGhan

Asst Professor, CEAS - Aerospace Eng & Eng Mechanics

724 Rhodes Hall

513-556-3032

cat.mcghan@uc.edu

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Autonomous Systems for SPACE ROBOTICS Lab:
http://www.ase.uc.edu/~spacerobotics/ and https://github.com/AS4SR/

Research Interests

Intelligent Systems
Space robotics
Risk-assessment and mitigation
Analysis and V&V of architectures
System safety
Human-Robot Interaction
Flight dynamics and control

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Rajnikant Sharma

Asst Professor, CEAS - Aerospace Eng & Eng Mechanics

727 Rhodes Hall

513-556-2946

rajnikant.sharma@uc.edu

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Research Interests

Cooperative localization, control, and vision based path planning of unmanned aerial vehicles and ground robots.
GPS denied navigation.
Sensor resource management and active sensing.
Nonlinear control and estimation.
Multi target geo-localization.
Secure and resilient autonomous vehicle platooning.

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Fluids, Propulsion & Heat Transfer

Shaaban A Abdallah

Professor, CEAS - Aerospace Eng

721 Rhodes Hall

513-556-3321

abdallsa@ucmail.uc.edu

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Research Interests:

Fluid Mechanics
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Domain Decomposition Methods
Computation of Incompressible Viscous Three-Dimensional Flow in Turbomachinery (Inlet, Duct, Combustor, Compressor, Turbine)

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Peter J Disimile

Assoc Professor, CEAS - Aerospace Eng

722 Rhodes Hall

513-556-3355

disimipj@ucmail.uc.edu

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Research Interests

Experimental Fluid Mechanics/Heat Transfer
Unsteady Flows
Vorticity Dynamics
Turbulence/Mixing
Instrumentation Development
Fire & Explosion Suppression related to aircraft survivability

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Ephraim J. Gutmark

Ohio Regents Eminent Scholar Chaired Professor of Aerospace Engineering; Professor of Otolaryngology, CEAS - Aerospace Eng

799 Rhodes Hall

513-556-1227

gutmarej@ucmail.uc.edu

Research Interests

Gas Turbines for Power Generation and Propulsion Systems
Experimental Fluid Mechanics
Combustion Control
Heat Transfer
Rocket and Airbreathing Propulsion
Aeroacoustics
Plume Characteristics
Aerodynamics
Fire Suppression
Oil-well Drilling Hydrodynamics
Diagnostics

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Awatef Hamed

Professor - Emerita, CEAS - Aerospace Eng & Eng Mechanics

745B Baldwin Hall

513-556-3553

hameda@ucmail.uc.edu

Research Interests

Thermal Management
Gas Turbines and Turbomachinery Erosion
Simulation of high speed flows

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San-Mou Jeng

Professor, CEAS - Aerospace Eng

480 Engineering Research Cntr

513-556-3361

jengsu@ucmail.uc.edu

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Prashant Khare

Asst Professor, CEAS - Aerospace Eng & Eng Mechanics

735 Rhodes Hall

513-556-5248

prashant.khare@uc.edu

Prashant Khare earned his Ph.D. degree from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2014. Following two years as a Research Fellow at Georgia Tech, he joined the University of Cincinnati (UC) in 2017 as an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering.

Teaching. Khare teaches undergraduate courses in thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and gas dynamics.

Research. Khare’s research focuses on multiphase flows, non-reacting and reacting fluid dynamics, combustion systems, data analytics and high-performance computing relevant to energy, propulsion, and environmental applications. He addresses the fundamental physics (and chemistry) underlying various physical processes by conducting massively parallel high-fidelity numerical simulations (direct numerical simulations (DNS)/large eddy simulation (LES)) and develops physics-based models using theoretical analyses combined with big-data analytics, which are leveraged for accurate and efficient engineering design and analysis.

RECOGNITIONS, AWARDS and HONORS
1. Publications and Presentations awards (§denotes awards with students)

§Poster award, CCS2 2nd Annual Commonwealth Computational Summit, 2018
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Poster Title: “Spatio-Temporal Predictions of Liquid Fuel Atomization and Spray Flowfields Using Machine Learning”

§Best technical content, 13th Dayton Engineering Sciences Symposium (DESS), 2017
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Paper Title: “The Effect of Inlet Pulsations on Primary Atomization of Liquid Jets”

§Poster award, CCS2 1st Annual Commonwealth Computational Summit, 2017
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Poser Title: “High-Fidelity Simulations of Water Jet in Air Crossflow”

Best presentation award, 42nd Dayton-Cincinnati Aerospace Sciences Symposium, 2017
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Paper Title: “Multiphysics Modeling and Simulation of Multiphase Flows”

Best video, 42nd Dayton-Cincinnati Aerospace Sciences Symposium Art-in-Science Competition, 2017
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Video Title: “Bag Breakup of Liquid Droplets”

William R. Marshall Award, 2013
Institute for Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems
Paper Title: “Breakup and Dynamics of Liquid Droplets”
Recognized as the most significant contribution to ILASS-Americas 24th Annual conference on liquid atomization and spray systems.

2. Research, Technical, Teaching and Service Honors and Recognitions

Trans-disciplinary Research Leadership Program Scholar, 2019-2020
Office of Research, University of Cincinnati

Professor of the Semester, Spring 2018
College of Engineering and Applied Science and the Engineering and Applied Science Tribunal

AIAA Senior Member, 2017-present
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

AIAA Distinguished Mentor, 2017-present
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ Distinguished Mentorship Program

Keynote lecture, Atomization of Liquid Jets and Droplets: Theory and Models, 2017
5th International Conference and Exhibition on Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Las Vegas, NV

Invited book reviewer for the International Year of Light, 2014
Taylor & Francis

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Jongguen Lee

Professor, CEAS - Aerospace Eng & Eng Mechanics

484 Engineering Research Cntr

513-556-2127

lee3jn@ucmail.uc.edu

Dr. Lee’s research focuses on combustion and propulsion problems in air-breathing and rocket propulsion systems. He has many years of experience in combustion dynamics in gas turbine, ramjet and augmentor, development of various laser-based optical diagnostic techniques with applications to propulsion systems, supersonic combustion, combustion control and sensors monitoring the combustion process, turbulent flame propagations and multi-phase combustion processes.
He has been collaborating with many major gas turbine/aircraft industries such as GE Aviation, GE Energy, Pratt and Whitney, Siemens-Westinghouse, Solar Turbines, Doosan Heavy Industry as well as the AFRL-Wright Patterson, NASA-GRC and DOE NETL (Natural Energy Technology Laboratory, Morgantown, WV) in those areas.

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Paul D. Orkwis

Dean, CEAS - College of Eng & Appl Science

801A Engineering Research Cntr

513-556-3366

orkwispd@ucmail.uc.edu

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Solids & Structural Mechanics

Yao Fu

Assistant Professor, CEAS - Aerospace Eng & Eng Mechanics

730 Rhodes Hall

513-556-5438

Phase field modeling of microstructural evolution in additive manufacturing process; Atomistic-continuum multi-scale simulation; Computationally guided innovative materials design; First-principles computation based on density functional theory of electrochemical processes
Lab webpage: Computational Lab for Materials and Manufacturing Design (https://clmmd.wordpress.com)

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