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Lambros Named ASME Fellow

Professor John Lambros makes the third AE faculty member this year to have achieved the status of Fellow within the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Sixty Years and Going Strong

Emeritus Prof. Harry H. Hilton reached a remarkable milestone in September 2009 — his 60th continuous year at the University of Illinois.

College Honors Archambault

The university, college, and Department of Aerospace Engineering welcomed Colonel Lee J. Archambault, BS 82, MS 84 AE, a distinguished United States Air Force pilot and NASA astronaut, back to campus during the Foundation weekend Oct. 2-4.

AE undergrad wins National Student Role Model Award

AE undergraduate Joseph Gonzalez has been selected as the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers’ National Student Role Model of the Year

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Thomas L. Jackson

Adjunct Professor

tlj@csar.uiuc.edu
Office address Mailing Address Research Group

Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets
2256 DCL

phone: 217-333-9311
fax: 217-333-8497

MC-278
1304 West Springfield Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801

 
Research Areas
Current research efforts at CSAR include the development of ROCFIRE, a fully three-dimensional code that examines the burning characteristics of heterogeneous solid propellants.

View more information about Adjunct Professor Jackson. Dr. Thomas L. Jackson is a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets (CSAR) a Computational Science and Engineering Affiliate (CSE), an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (TAM), and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering (AE), all at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Mathematics Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1985 after which he joined the staff of the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE) where he had previously been a Graduate Research Assistant. In 1987 he became an Assistant, then (in 1992) an Associate, Professor at Old Dominion University in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. In 1993 he moved back to ICASE for five years before moving to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he now works. He has co-edited two books, co-authored a textbook on hydrodynamic stability, and authored or co-authored more than 120 papers. He is currently a member of the Combustion Institute, and an Associate Fellow of AIAA. He has been a paper and grant referee for many organizations and journals. His expertise is in the area of combustion, and the large-scale simulation thereof, and in combustion stability. Current Research Interests