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Personal
data
Citizenship: United States of America
Date of Birth: August 18, 1943
Marital Status: Married
Languages: German, English
Education
Dr.-Ing. (Pd.D.), 1978, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, Department
of Mechanical Engineering.
Dipl.-Ing. (M.S), 1970, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, Department
of Mechanical Engineering, Majors: Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical
Engineering.
Dipl.-Vorprüfung (B.S.), 1967, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany,
Department of Mechanical.
High School: 1964, University College, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Editor-in-Chief
Of the new Springer Verlag’s: Journal of Turbomachinery Performance
and Flow Physics
Experiences
Industrial Experience, Gas Turbine Systems and Components R&D
1979-May 1987 (1987 I joined Texas A&M Univ.): ABB, former Brown Boveri
&Cie (BBC), Gas Turbine Division, Baden Switzerland. General industrial
experience in the gas turbine department, special industrial experience
in the area of gas turbine systems and component aerodynamics and design.
Group chief and project leader-in-charge of aerodynamic design of multi-stage
turbine and compressor components of power generation gas turbine systems,
GT8, GT13, and Compressed Air Energy Storage Facility (CAES) Soyland as
well as the transonic compressor for gas turbine type GT-8.
Research Experience in Academic Environment
Turbine Engine Aerodynamics, Performance, and Heat Transfer Research
Fundamental Experimental and Theoretical Research in the Area of Unsteady
Aerodynamics, Heat Transfer.
Fundamental Experimental and Theoretical Research in the area of Unsteady
Turbine Cascade Flow, Heat Transfer, and Performance.
Computational Propulsion Simulation Research.
Academic Experience
Joined Texas A&M in May, 1987, I full Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Department, Texas A&M University and director the Turbomachinery Performance
and Flow Research Laboratory, TPFL.
Visiting
Professor: August, 2001 to July 2002, Visiting professor at the
German Technical Universities Berlin, Darmstadt, Munich, Research on Turbomachinery
Unsteady Aerodynamics.
U.S.
National Laboratories, Summer Faculty Fellow
NASA Lewis Research Center, NASA Lewis Research Center, June 1993-August
1993.
NASA
Lewis Research Center, Systems Dynamics, June 1992-August 1992.
NASA
Lewis Research Center, Fluid Physics Branch, June 1990-August 1990.
Solar
Energy Research Institute, Golden Colorado, June 1989-August 1989.
Honors
and Award
Recognition award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
Lewis Research Center and the Ohio Aerospace Institute for Innovative
Engine Simulation Technology, 1993.
TEES Fellow , 1998.
Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize, 2001
Faculty Fellow, 2001
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