Paul E. Dimotakis
John K. Northrop Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Applied Physics
Research 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