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AE's Naraghi Takes First for Second Year in Sandia Lab Contest

Ph.D. candidate Mohammad Naraghi, under the direction of Professor Ioannis Chasiotis, has taken a first place at Sandia National Laboratory's University Alliance competition for the second consecutive year!

Bragg is new AIAA vice president; Muellner assumes organization's presidency

Prof. Michael B. Bragg is the new Vice President-Elect, Publications, of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

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May 26
Memorial Day

 
Austin

Joanna M. Austin

Assistant Professor

jmaustin@uiuc.edu
Office address Mailing Address Research Group
311 Talbot Lab
217-333-3739
306 Talbot Lab
104 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801
Compressible Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
Research Areas
Fluid mechanics, compressible flow, and combustion.

Education:

  • PhD, Aeronautical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 2003
  • MS, Aeronautical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1997
  • BE, Mechanical and Space Engineering, University of Queensland, 1996
  • BSc, Mathematics, University of Queensland, 1996

Academic Positions:

  • Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 2003-present.

Honors and Awards:

  • Richard Bruce Chapman Award for distinguished research in hydrodynamics in the Engineering and Applied Science Division, Caltech, 2003
  • Russell R. Vought Scholarship, Caltech, 1997
  • George Washington University Scholarship for internship at NASA Langley, 1994
  • Australian Students Prize, 1990

Selected Publications:

  • Austin, J.M., Pintgen, F., and Shepherd, J.E. Reaction Zones in Highly Unstable Detonations. Proc. 30th Combustion Symposium (2004).
  • Wintenberger, E., Austin, J.M, Cooper, M., Jackson, S., and Shepherd, J.E. An Analytical Model for the Impulse of a Single-Cycle Pulse Detonation Engine. Journal of Propulsion and Power, 19:1, 22-38 (2003).
  • Pintgen, F., Eckett, C.A., Austin, J.M., and Shepherd, J.E. Direct Observations of Reaction Zone Structure in Propagating Detonations. Combustion and Flame 133:3, 211-229 (2003).
  • Austin, J.M., and Shepherd, J.E. Detonations in Hydrocarbon Fuel Blends. Combustion and Flame 132 :1-2, 73-90 (Jan 2003).
  • Cooper, M., Jackson, S., Austin, J.M., Wintenberger, E., and Shepherd, J.E. Direct Experimental Impulse Measurements for Detonations and Deflagrations. Journal of Propulsion and Power, 18:5, 1033-1041 (2002).