David R. Kassoy
Professor Emeritus
(303) 492-6066
David.Kassoy@Colorado.EDU
Curriculum Vitae
Education
- Wharton/IRHE Executive Education Program, University of Pennsylvania, February, 1998
- Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, 1965
- M.S. Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, 1961
- B.S. Aerospace Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, 1959
Professional Recognition
- Boeing Fellowship (University of Michigan), 1960-1961
- University Fellowship (University of Michigan), 1961-1963
- Teaching Fellowship (University of Michigan), 1959-1960, 1963-1965
- Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of California, San Diego), 1965-1967
- NATO-NSF Travel Grant, Summer 1971
- John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1972-1973
- College of Engineering and Applied Science Research Award, 1980
- Croft Professorship, College of Engineering, 1982-1983
- Faculty Fellowship, University of Colorado, 1982-1983
- Fulbright Research Grant, The Netherlands, 1983
- Senior Visiting Fellowship, Science and Engineering Research Council, United Kingdom,1982-1983
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship, June 1985
- Fellow, American Physical Society, elected November 1986
- Outstanding Ph.D. Recipient, The H.H. Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan,1988
- Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2002
Research Interests
- Solid rocket motor chamber flow dynamics
- Detonation initiation
- Bubble dynamics in oscillating pipe flows
- Response of gases to local thermal power deposition on the sub-microsecond time scale
- Applications of asymptotic methods to multiple-scale problems
Selected Publications
- “Detonation Initiation and Evolution in a Model of a Pulsed Detonation Engine”, with S. Palaniswamy, AIAA 2002-0612, 40th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV 2002
- “Acoustically Generated Unsteady Vorticity Field in a Long Narrow Cylinder with Sidewall Injection”, with K. Kirkkopru, Q. Zhao and P.L. Staab, J. Eng. Math., 42, 65-90, 2002
- “Three Dimensional Acoustic-Rotational Flows in a Cylinder with Sidewall Mass Addition”, with P.L. Staab, Physics of Fluids, 14, #9, 3141-3159 , 2002
- “Modeling Detonation Initiation and Evolution in a Pulse Detonation Engine”, with S. Palaniswamy,. AIAA 2003-1172, 41st Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV. 2003
- “Acoustic-Rotational Internal Flow Caused by Transient Sidewall Mass Addition”, with M.J. Rempe and P. L. Staab, SIAM J. Applied Math. 65, #2, 587-617, 2005
- “Modeling Detonation Initiation on the Microsecond Time Scale”, with J.A. Kuehn, M.W. Nabity and J.F. Clarke, AIAA 2005-1169, 43rd Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno NV. 2005
- “Detonation Initiation on the Microsecond Time Scale: Comparative Modeling”, with J.A. Kuehn, M.W. Nabity and J.F. Clarke, AIAA-2006-0956, 44th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV. 2006
- “Internal Flow Temperature Dynamics in a Channel with Time-dependent Mass Injection”, with A.M. Hegab, AIAA J., 44, #4, 812-826, 2006.
- Detonation Initiation on the Microsecond Time Scale: DDT’s, with J.A. Kuehn, M.W. Nabity and J.F. Clarke, submitted to Combustion Theory and Modeling, December, 2006
- Detonation Initiation on the Microsecond Time Scale: One and Two Dimensional Results Obtained from Adaptive Wavelet-Collocation Numerical Methods, with J. Regele and O.V. Vasilyev, AIAA 2006-0986, 45th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, NV 2007