Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics Faculty & Staff

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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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

• Director, Center for Intelligent Propulsion and Advanced Life Management of Systems
• High Temperature Erosion Lab and Propulsion Systems and Aeroacoustics Simulation Lab
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Research Interests

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

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

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)