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Douglas Smith, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Room 2026, Engineering Building
University of Wyoming
College of Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dept. 3295
1000 E. University Avenue
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: 307.766.3647
Douglas Smith received his ScB in Engineering from Brown University in 1987 and his MA and PhD from Princeton University in 1990 and 1993, respectively. After completing his doctorate, Smith spent two and a half years as a post-doctoral researcher in Europe, first at IMST in Marseille, France, and then at Imperial College in London. Smith joined the Mechanical Engineering faculty in Fall 1998 after spending eighteen months in St. Louis where he was a Georgia Tech post-doctoral fellow working with the Boeing Phantom Works group.
Research Interests
Experimental fluid dynamics, Passive and Active flow control, Synthetic jets, Lattice Boltzmann Methods for Fluid Flows.
Research Facilities
Mezzanine Wind Tunnel and Vortex Dynamics Lab
Breaking Waves in the Sky
Roll-up in the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability as seen in the clouds over southern Wyoming.
This image was obtained just south of Laramie, Wyoming (Home to the University of Wyoming) by Patrick Shea on the morning of August 6, 2007 between 8am and 9am.
For additional images in the efluids gallery
This photo was taken by Ken Driese looking to the east of Laramie, Wyoming on Saturday September 29, 2007 at 6pm.
Recent Publications
Deb,D., Tao, G., Burkholder, J.O. and Smith, D.R., "Adaptive Compensation Cotnrol of Synthetic Jet Actuator Arrays for Airfoil Virtual Shaping", Journal of Aircraft, 44(2), 616-626, 2007.
Schuster, J.M. and Smith, D.R., "An Experimental Study of the Formationand Scaling of a Round Synthetic Jet", Physics of Fluids, 19(4), 2007.
Bridges, A. B. and Smith, D. R., "Influence of Orifice Orientation on a Synthetic Jet Boundary Layer Interaction," AIAA Journal 41(12), 2003.
Smith, D. R., "The Interaction of a Synthetic Jet with a Cross-flow Boundary Layer", AIAA Journal 40(11), 2277- 2288, 2002.
Amitay, M., Smith, D. R., Kibens, V., Parekh, D. E. and Glezer, A., "Aerodynamic Flow Control Over an Unconventional Airfoil Using Synthetic Jet Actuators", AIAA Journal, 39(3), 361-370, 2001.
Smith, D. R. and Smits, A. J., "The Effects of Successive Distortions on a Turbulent Boundary Layer in a Supersonic Flow" Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 351, 253-288, 1997.
Debieve, J.F., Dupont, P., Smith, D.R. and Smits, A.J., "The Response of a Supersonic Turbulent Boundary Layer to a Step Change in Wall Temperature" AIAA Journal, 35(1), 51-57, 1997.