Robert E. Melnik

Date of Appointment

16 December 2002

Education

BS, Aeronautical Eng., Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, NYC, NY 1956

MS, Aeronautical Eng., Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, NYC, NY1961

PhD, Astronautics, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, NYC, NY1965

Completed Management Programs at the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan, 1992, 1993

Employment

Research Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga,  2002-Present

Professor, Computational Engineering, Engineering Research Center, Mississippi State University, 1997-2002

Associate Director, Research Initiatives, Computational Simulation and Design Center, Mississippi State University, 2001-2002

MSRC Technologist, Programming Environment and Training (PET) program, DoD Major Shared Research Center, Stennis Space Center, in association with the Engineering Research Center, Mississippi State University, 1997-2001

Technical Manager, Multidisciplinary Analysis and Design Project, Northrop Grumman, Advanced Technology and Development Center, 1995-1997

Grumman Research Fellow, Grumman, Corporate Research Center, 1989-1994

Director, Fluid Mechanics, Grumman, Corporate Research Center, 1981-1989

Director, Aerophysics, Grumman, Corporate Research Center, 1973-1981

Head, Aerodynamics Group, Grumman, Corporate Research Group, 1966-1973

Research Scientist, Grumman, Corporate Research Group, 1956-1966

Academic Specialties

Fluid Dynamics

Applied Mathematics

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Turbulent Flow

Aquatic Animal Propulsion

Professional Activities and Honors

AIAA, Fellow

Member American Physical Society, Member

AIAA Technical Committee for Fluid Dynamics, Former Member

AIAA Journal, Associate Editor, 1978-1980

Annual Reviews of Fluid Mechanics, Member Editorial Committee

International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Member of the Editorial Board

NASA Steering Committee for the Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation (NAS) Program, Member

National Academy of Sciences NRC Committee to assess current capabilities and future directions of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Member

National Research Council Committee to Study Future Ground Test and Computational Requirements for the Arnold Engineering Development Center, Member

Advisory Board for the ARPA Subtech Program, Member

NASA Steering Committee for the Numerical Aerodynamics Simulation Program (NAS), Member

Advisory Committee for NASA Center for Turbulence Research, Member

NASA Turbulence Program Review Committee, Member

Numerous NASA Peer Review Committees, Member

Advisory Board of the Cornell University Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Member

Advisory Board SUNY-Stony Brook Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Member

Executive Advisory Board for the U.S. Army ARO Center of Excellence in Mathematical Sciences at Cornell/SUNY-Stony Brook, Member

Listed in American Men and Women of Science and Who's Who in America.

Recent Publications

     1.   "The Computation of Viscid/Inviscid Interaction on Airfoils with Separated Flow," Third Symposium on the Numerical and Physical Aspects of Aerodynamic Flows, California State University, Long Beach, CA, 21-24 January 1985.

 

     2.   "Similarity Solutions for Plane and Radial Jets Using a k-e Turbulence Model" Trans. ASMC Journal ed Fluids Engineering, Vol. 107, No. 1 March 12, 1985, (coauthor).

 

     3.   "A Method for Design of Closed Airfoils for Arbitrary Supercritical Speed Distributions" AIAA paper No. 85-5023, AIAA 3rd Applied Aerodynamics Conference, 14-16 October 1985, (coauthor).

 

     4.   "An Improved Viscid/Inviscid Interaction Procedure for Transonic Flow Over Airfoils" NASA Contract Report 3805, October 1985, (coauthor).

 

     5.   "Grumfoil:  A Computer Code for the Viscous Transonic Flow Over Airfoils" NASA Contractor Report B806, October 1985, (coauthor).

 

     6.   "Computation of Turbulent Separated Flow with an Integral Boundary Layer Method," paper presented at the 10th International Conference on Numerical Methods in Fluid Dynamics, Beijing, China, 23-25 June 1986, published in Lecture Notes in Physics, 264, Springer Verlag, 1986 (coauthor).

 

     7.   "A New Asymptotic Theory of Turbulent Boundary Layers and Its Application to Separation" Boundary Layer Separation, Springer Verlag, New York,1987

 

     8.   "An Overview of Computational Fluid Dynamics Development and Application at Grumman," presented at the NASA Conference on Supercomputing in Aerospace, 10-12 March 1987.

 

     9.   "An Asymptotic Theory of Turbulent of Turbulent Separation", Computers and Fluids, Vol.17, 1989

 

  10.   "Some Applications of Asymptotic Theory to Turbulent Flow" presented at the 29th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, Nevada, AIAA Paper No. 91-0220, January,1991

 

  11.   "Navier-Stokes Computations of Turbulent Flows Using a New Wall Boundary Condition" presented at the 4th International Symposium on Computational Fluid Dynamics at the University of California at Davis,CA September,1991,(coauthor).

 

  12.   "Applications of a new Wall-Slip Boundary Condition to the computation of Turbulent Flows" presented at the AIAA 24th Fluid Dynamics Conference, Orlando, Fl, AIAA paper No. 93-3108, July, 1993, (coauthor)

 

  13.   "A process for Industry Certification of Physical Simulation Codes" presented at the 25 th Fluid Dynamics Conference, Colorado Springs, Colorado, AIAA Paper No. 94-2235, July, 1994 (coauthor)

 

  14.   "An Overview of a Recent Industry Effort at CFD Code Certification" presented at the 26 th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, San Diego, CA, AIAA Paper No. 95-2229, June, 1995 (coauthor)