Dudley Stephen Nichols, III, Assistant Research Professor

Date of Appointment

1 September 2002

Education

PhD, Aerospace Engineering, Mississippi State University, 2002

MS, Aerospace Engineering, Mississippi State University, May 1998

Minor, Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University

BS, Aerospace Engineering, United States Naval Academy, May 1992

Employment

Assistant Research Professor, Computational Simulation and Design Center, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 2002-Present

Research Associate, SimCenter, MSU-NSF Engineering Research Center, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State University, 1999-2002

Aerospace Engineer, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division, 1999

Project Engineer, U. S. Marine Corps Lightweight Laser Rangefinder Designator Program, 1998-1999

Graduate Research Assistant, SimCenter, MSU-NSF Engineering Research Center, Mississippi State University, 1994-1998

Military Experience

Ensign, United States Navy, 1992-1994

Academic Service

Tutored 26 undergraduate students, Physics, United States Naval Academy

Academic Specialties

Unsteady Free-Surface Flow

Surface-Ship Hydrodynamics and Maneuvering

Turbulence Modeling

Reviewer

Journal of Ship Research

Computers & Fluids

Recent Publications

  1. S. Nichols, D. Hyams, K. Sreenivas, B. Mitchell, L. Taylor, D. Whitfield, "An Unstructured Incompressible Multi-Phase Solution Algorithm", AIAA-2006-1290, 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, January 2006.
  2. K. Sreenivas, R. Pankajakshan, S. Nichols B. Mitchell, L. Taylor, D. Whitfield, "Aerodynamic Simulation of Heavy Trucks with Rotating Wheels", AIAA-2006-1394, 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, January 2006.
  3. Sreenivas, K., Hyams, D.G., Nichols, D.S., Mitchell, B., Taylor, L.K., Briley, W.R., Whitfield, D.L., "Development of an Unstructured Parallel Flow Solver for Arbitrary Mach Numbers," AIAA Paper No 2005-0325, 43rd Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2005.
  4. Nichols, D. S. III, Development of a Free Surface Method Utilizing an Incompressible Multi-Phase Algorithm to Study the flow about Surface Ships and Underwater Vehicles, Doctoral Thesis, Mississippi State University, August 2002
  5. Hyams, D.G., Sreenivas, K., Sheng, C., Nichols, S., Taylor, L.K., Briley, W.R., and Whitfield, D.L., An Unstructured Multielement Solution Algorithm for Complex Geometry Hydrodynamic Simulations, 23rd Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Val de Reuil, France, September 2000.
  6. Beddhu, M., Nichols, S., Jiang, M.Y., Sheng, C., Whitfield, D.L., and Taylor, L.K., Comparison of EFD and CFD Results of the Free Surface Flow Field about the Series 60 CB = O.6 Ship, 25th American Towing Conference, Iowa City, IA, Sept. 1998
  7. Nichols, D. S. III, Calculation of Free Surface Wave Forms and Flow Field about the Series 60 CB = 0.6 Ship, Masters Thesis, Mississippi State University, May 1998