Steve Karman, Research Professor

Date of Appointment

1 February 2003

Education

PhD, Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, 1991

MS, Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1982

BS, Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, 1980

Employment

Research Professor, Computational Simulation and Design Center, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 2003 to Present

CFD Technical Lead, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth, TX, Aerodynamics and CFD Branch, deployed to Advanced Development Program (Skunk Works), 1999 to 2003

Specialist Senior, Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems, Fort Worth, TX, CFD Group, 1995 to 1999

Engineering Group Specialist, Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems, Fort Worth, TX, CFD Group, 1991 to 1995

Engineering Specialist, General Dynamics-Fort Worth Division, Fort Worth, TX, CFD Group, 1988 to 1991

Senior Engineer, General Dynamics-Fort Worth Division, Fort Worth, TX, CFD Group, 1986 to 1988

Engineer, General Dynamics-Fort Worth Division, Fort Worth, TX, Aeroanalysis Group/CFD Group, 1983 to 1986

Academic Specialties

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Internal and External Aerodynamics

Unstructured Mesh Generation and Solution Adaptive Meshing

Design Optimization

UTC Courses

ENGR 591 - Special Topics in Engineering, “Special Topics is Grid Generation”, Fall 2003.

ENCM 516 - Grid Generation, Spring 2003.

ENCM 516 - Grid Generation, Fall 2004.

ENGR 591 - Special Topics in Engineering, “Computational Design Graphics”, Spring 2005.

ENCM 516 – Grid Generation, Fall 2005.

ENGR 591 – Special Topics in Adaptive and Dynamic Meshes, Fall 2005.

Professional Memberships

Unstructured Grid Generation Consortium
CFD General Notation System

International Society of Grid Generation

NATO/RTO technical team AVT-113 studying viscous vertical flows over F-16XL

Lockheed Martin Corporate CFD Technology Focal Group

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics High Performance Computing Team

Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics:

        Session Co-Chairman, Meshing, Visualization and Computational Environments, 44th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2006

        Session Co-Chairman, 17th Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 2005

        Session Co-Chairman, Meshing, Visualization & Computational Environments, 43rd Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2005

        Session Chairman, Applied Aerodynamics session, 41st Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2003

        Member of Interactive Computer Graphics Technical Committee, January 2003 to Present

        Member of Applied Aerodynamics Technical Committee, Spring 2000 to Spring 2003

        Session Chairman, Applied Aerodynamics Conference, St. Louis, MO, June 2002

Session Chairman, Applied Aerodynamics session, 40th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2002

Session Chairman, Applied Aerodynamics session, 38th Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2000

Session Chairman, Applied Aerodynamics Conference, Norfolk, VA, June 1999

Recent Publications

     1.   “Analysis of the F-16 Flow Field by a Block Grid Euler Approach,” AGARD-CP-412 Paper No. 18, Published November, 1986.

     2.   “Multiple-Block Grid Method Applied to Complex 3-D Geometries,” Presented at Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 1986 National Meeting, July 1986, Boston, Mass. Unpublished.

     3.   “Generation of Multiple Block Grids for Arbitrary 3D Geometries,” Printed in the AGARDOGRAPH on Mesh Generation, J. Steger and J. Thompson, co-authors, February, 1987.

     4.   “Benchmark Calculations with an Unstructured Grid Flow Solver on a SIMD Computer,” Proceedings of the Supercomputing 1989 Conference, November 1989. IEEE Computer Society Order Number 2021.

     5.   “Development of an Unstructured CFD Method,” AIAA 91-0019, 1991.

     6.   “Development of a 3D Unstructured CFD Method,” Ph.D. Dissertation, May 1991, University of Texas at Arlington.

     7.   “Calibration of 2D Unstructured Grid Methods on Propulsive Flowfields,” AGARD Fluid Dynamics Panel Symposium on “Aerodynamic Engine-Airframe Integration,” Paper No. 27, October, 1991.

     8.   “SPLITFLOW: A 3D Unstructured Cartesian/Prismatic Grid CFD Code for Complex Geometries,” AIAA 95-0434, 1995.

     9.   “Rapid Assessment of F-16 Store Trajectories Using Unstructured CFD,” AIAA 95-0354, 1995.

  10.   “Unstructured Cartesian/Prismatic Grid Generation for Complex Geometries,” NASA Conference Publication 3291, “Surface Modeling, Grid Generation, and Related Issues in Computational Fluid Dynamics,” 1995.

  11.   “Implementation of Low Speed Preconditioning in the Splitflow Code,” AIAA 97-1867, 1997.

  12.   “SPLITFLOW: Progress in 3 D CFD with Cartesian Omni-Tree Grids for Complex Geometries,” AIAA 2000-1006, 2000.

  13.   “Hierarchical Unstructured Mesh Generation,” AIAA 2004-0613, 2004.

  14.   “Mesh Generation Using Unstructured Computational Meshes and Elliptic Partial Differential Equation Smoothing,” AIAA 2005-0923, January 2005. To be published in AIAA Journal.

  15.   “Unstructured Viscous Layer Insertion Using Linear-Eleastic Smothing,” AIAA-2006-0531, January 2006.

  16.   “Grid Control of Viscous Unstructured Meshes Using Optimization,” AIAA-2006-0532, January 2006.

  17.   “3D Visualization and Manipulation of Geometry and Surface Meshes,” AIAA-2006-0944, January 2006.