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
- Combustion Science/Reactive Gasdynamics
- Solid and liquid rocket motor stability
- Detonation initiation, explosions
- Response of gases to local thermal power deposition on the sub-microsecond time scale; thermomechanics
- Applications of asymptotic methods to multiple-scale problems
Selected Publications
- “Effects of High Activation Energies on Acoustic Timescale Detonation Initiation”, with J. Regele and O. Vasilyev, Combustion Theory and Modeling, DOI:10.1080/13647830.2011.647090, Available online: 13 Jan 2012
- “The response of a compressible gas to extremely rapid transient spatially resolved energy addition: an asymptotic formulation.”, J. Eng. Math 68, 249-262, 2010
- “Detonation Initiation on the Microsecond Time Scale: DDT’s, with J.A. Kuehn, M.W. Nabity and J.F. Clarke, Combustion Theory and Modeling, 12, #6, 1009-1047 2008
- “Internal Flow Temperature Dynamics in a Channel with Time-dependent Mass Injection”, with A.M. Hegab, AIAA J., 44, #4, 812-826, 2006
- “ 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
- “Three Dimensional Acoustic-Rotational Flows in a Cylinder with Sidewall Mass Addition”, with P.L. Staab, Physics of Fluids, 14, #9, 3141-3159 , 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