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Aerospace Propulsion Systems, Compressible and Incompressible Fluid Flow, Thermodynamics, Failure Review Board
He has worked for more than 31 years in the propulsion area, including both academic and industrial settings. Specific area of propulsion expertise include liquid rocket systems, high-Mach air-breathing propulsion systems, and solid rocket motors. The first 16 years of…
Thermal Management, Electronic Packaging, Mechanical Engineering
Worked on experimental and numerical simulation in two-phase heat and mass transfer, high-heat-flux cooling, spray, jet, flow boiling, aerospace thermal management, heat pipes, ice accretion, HVAC, turbomachinery, computational fluid dynamics: incompressible and viscous flows with heat transfer, signal processing, computer…
Engineering: Mining, Minerals, Metallurgy, Chemicals, Materials, and Energy- Especially Fuels
Expert is a professionally registered engineer with 28 years of experience in process, chemical and metallurgical engineering, engineering services, research, consulting and industrial plant operations. Experienced and trained in pyrometallurgy, he also has extensive industrial experience in hydrometallurgy, electrometallurgy, environmental…
Fiber Reinforced Composites, Bio-Based Materials, Phenolic Resin Technology
Expert is very knowledgeable in composite materials involving a reinforcing fiber [such as E and S glass], Carbon Fiber, and Organic fiber such as Aramid and organic matrix resins based on thermosetting and thermoplastic resins with the TS resins being…
Airplane and Helicopter Research, Design and Analysis
During the latter part of his tenure at NASA Langley, Expert served as the Assistant Branch Head of the Subsonic Aerodynamics Branch, and was the only Army researcher ever to serve in a NASA management position. He was principally responsible…
Combustion, Combustor Design, Combustor Acoustical Problems, Analysis, CFD, Engineering Design
Expert designed and tested missles and spacecraft in many Hypersonic wind tunnels at elevated temperatures and pressures from Mach 3 simulation to Mach 8 simulation at NASA. The expertise included test procedures for starting such facilities and techniques to avoid…
Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics, Fire Safety Engineering
He is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Affiliate Professor of Fire Protection Engineering. He has more than a decade record of research with the Center for Fire Research (now BFRL) at the NIST. His work is in evaporative cooling…
Aerosol Dispensers, Atomizers, Pumps, Closures, Trigger Pumps, Expert Witness, Consumer Products
Expert has 40 years of experience with three types of atomizers. The first is with vertical piston type finger atomizers using displacement of a compression chamber to deliver liquid from a container. The second is with vertical piston type finger…
Weld Structure, Tanks, Vessels
Expert (pronounced ma-kit-ka, ) has over 35 years experience in practical applications requiring consideration of materials, toughness, impact energy and resistance, tensile strength, yield strength, and ductility of metals. This includes experience with properties of welds and weldments, and ASME…
Fluid Flow Systems/Heat Transfer Equipment/Porous Media Flows/Thermal Management
FLUID MECHANICS; FLUID BOUNDARY LAYER. Expert has spent much of his career solving Euler, Navier-Stokes, and Bernoulli equations For their application to complex flow fields such as gas and liquid jets, channel flow design, turbulence, flow separation and mixing processes,…