Eric Loth Professor, Willett
Faculty Scholar, and Associate
Head of Undergraduate Studies Department
of Aerospace Engineering Voice: 217-244-5581, Fax: 217-244-0720 e-mail: loth@illinois.edu
Curriculum Vitae (lists employment history,
awards, publications, and grants)
COURSES AT UIUC
ME 510/AAE5983GD (Graduate) Gas Dynamics
AAE 513 (Graduate) Dispersed Multiphase Flow (D)
AAE 598FEM (Graduate) Finite Element Methods for Fluid Dynamics (D)
ME533GT (Graduate) Gas Turbine Engines: Advanced Jet Engines
AAE 498 (Grad/Under.) Special Topics: Microgravity Research (Float'n Illini!)
AAE 470 (Undergrad.) Computational Methods in Aerospace Engineering
AAE 433 (Undergrad.) Aerospace Propulsion: Rocket and Turbojet Aerothermodynamics
AAE 441 (Undergrad.) Senior Design: Aircraft Design Theory and Practice II
AAE 440 (Undergrad.) Senior Design: Aircraft Design Theory and Practice I
AAE 311 (Undergrad.) Aerodynamics II: Incompressible Inviscid and Viscous Flow
AAE 199 (Undergrad.) Fundamentals of Aerospace Engineering: Freshman Introduction
Note: Prof. Loth is the AAE special advisor for Students with Disabilities. You may want to also contact the Rehabilitation Services at UIUC for accomodations and information. In addition, prospective Undergraduates with disabilities may want to see results from ee!
GRADUATE
RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS ….
Spring 2010 Positions are available but U.S. citizenship required!
Note:
UIUC grad school ranks in the top five in engineering in US News & WR
CURRENT
RESEARCH GROUP and topics (& funding sponsor)
Dr. Ilker Bayer Research Scientist Nano-texturing & Nano-additives for Fluid Power Systems (NSF) - #1 from right above
Ingrid Chiles, M.S. Supersonic Bypass Analysis (Gulfstream) - #2 from left above
Terrance Coyne, M.S. Low-Boom Supersonic Inlets (NASA) - taking a final when above picture shot (poor priorities)
Albert Lee, M.S. Multiphase Icing and Accretion Modeling (NASA) - #4 from right above
Sang Lee, Ph.D. Virtual Icing Research Tunnel (NASA) - #1 from left above
Phil Martorana, M.S. Nanoadditives in Gear Pumps (NSF) - #5 from left above
Michael Rybalko, M.S. SBLI Flow Control (Gulfstream) - #5 from right above
Adam
Steele, M.S. Nano-surfaces for Flow Control (NSF) YouTube of nano-coating on hydraulic lines
- #3 from left above
Sida Wang, M.S. Multiphase Hybrid
Eulerian-Lagrangian Methods (NASA) - #3 from right above
RECENT GRADUATE STUDENTS with
research topics (and current positions)
Aric Aumann, M.S. 2000 virtual reality for two-phase flows (currently virtual reality programmer for ASM near NASA Langley)
Chirag Bhargava, M.S. 2003 Virtual Icing Research Tunnel
(currently in
Pratik Bhattacharjee, M.S. 2002 refrigerated air-curtain simulations
(currently post-doc at
Todd Bocksell, M.S. 1998, Ph.D. 2003 two-phase turbulent dispersion (Financial Engineer, Infinium Capital Management, Chicago)
Mike Cebrzynski, M.S. 1994 effects of bubbles on turbulent shear layers (Boeing, Pax River MD)
Robin Chin, M.S., 2008 Fluid power harvesting for Ankle-Foot Orthotics (working on Ph.D. for UIUC)
Franz Davis, M.S. 1993 particle loading of turbulent shear layers (Northrup-Grumman working on a new underwater propulsor system)
Brian DeAngelis, M.S. 1996 liquid distribution in an icing wind tunnel (Boeing, Seatlle, works in structures area)
Andrew Dorgan, M.S. 2003, Ph.D. 2009 particle and bubble dispersion in a turbulent boundary layer (Boeing St. Louis)
Tim Dunn, M.S. 1998 computational aerodynamics of iced airfoils (Lawrence Livermore National Labs, CA, working on ALE3D)
Keith Felton, Ph.D. 1999 bubble
dispersion and forces in turbulent boundary layers (Exxon Research Labs,
Brandon Field, M.S. 2001 refrigerated air-curtain experiments
(Ph. D student at
Barry
Ford, M.S. 1997 forces on ellipsoidal bubbles in turbulent shear
layers (Pratt & Whitney in
Robert Frank, M.S. 1992 cinematic
supersonic turbulent shear layers (Air Force, Chief Flight Test Engineer for
Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile in
Derek Gefroh, M.S. 2000 smart mesoflaps for aeroleastic transpiration (Manager Airline Operations Support, Seattle, WA establishing overall performance for the Boeing fleet- oversees 70 engineers)
Patrick Hancir, M.S. 1999 droplet distribution in the NASA Icing Research Tunnel (Sr. Aerospace Engr. at THAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, in the missile performance group.)
Rajeev Jaiman,
M.S. 2002, Ph.D. 2007 fluid structure interactios (Acu-sym? in
James
Kersey, M.S. 2007 Multiphase Coupling for Unstructured Grids
(Simulation Engineer, Exponent,
Satish Kumar,
M.S. 2000 unsteady simulations of iced airfoils (IBM,
Samson Lee, M.S. 2003 MEMS-based
micro-bubblers for drag reduction (currently in
Vince Lee, M.S. 2006 Multiphase Coupling for Unstructured Grids (Boeing St. Louis, Aero-load Testing)
Mark Matthys, M.S. 1994 unsteady shock-wave/boundary-layer interaction (Naval Air Station, pilot)
Tom Oakley, M.S. 1995 cinematic
two-phase PIV in turbulent shear layers (Boeing, flight test engineer for
F/A-18 aircraft at
Choong Oh, Ph.D. 1993 simulations of supersonic
turbulent shear layers (research scientist, Naval Research Laboratory,
Martin Orphanides,
M.S. 2002 mesoflaps
for shock boundary layer control (aerospace work somewhere in
Jianping Pan,
Ph.D. aerodynamic performance of
iced airfoils (atmospheric modeling for the State of
Mahadevan Ramaswamy, Ph.D. 1994 experimental supersonic shear layer dynamics (passed away in 2004, a great person & a great engineer)
Kalluri Rammohan, M.S. 2003 control of air-curtains
(returned to
Steve Sivier, M.S. 1991, Ph.D. 1995 two-phase shock and detonation (SGI, in bay-area of CA involved in network communication systems)
Karthik Srinivasan, M.S. 2003 closed-loop control of aeroelastic mesoflaps (currently working on Ph.D. at UIUC for Prof. Guebelle)
Mohammad Taeibi-Rahni, Ph.D. 1995
simulations bubbles in shear layers (Professor
& Dept. Head Aersp. Sci
& Engr.,
Benjamin Tillotson, M.S. Supersonic three-dimensional bump (Sandia Labs)
Chung
Wang, M.S. 2007 Simulation of Refrigerated Air Curtains (
Brett Wood, M.S. 1999 aeroelastically smart system for shock/boundary-layer control (FuturePoint in LA, video game programmer)