Hesham A
Othman, Ph.D.
Mechanical Power Department
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Aerospace
& Mechanical Engineering,
M.S.Aero.E in Aerospace &
Mechanical Engineering,
M.S. in Mechanical Power
Engineering,
B.S. in Mechanical Power
Engineering,
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
(July 2008-Present)
Assistance professor at the mechanical power department. Duties include teaching for undergraduate and graduate students. Courses include heat transfer, refrigeration and air conditioning, numerical methods, and solar energy.
(August 2005-June 2008)
Post-doctoral research associate. The principle duty is to support research on plasma-base aerodynamic flight control.
Different projects include different airfoil shapes, unmanned vehicle rolling control, Quad Tilt Rotor flow control, landing gear noise reduction, and wind turbine blade control.
(2000-2005)
Investigate of absolute instability in the boundary layer over a disk rotating in air otherwise at rest.
(Fall 2004)
Teaching Assistant Flight Mechanics/Introduction to Aircraft Design (AME440).
(1992-1999)
Teaching assistant in several courses: Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Refrigeration and Air conditioning, Engineering Economy, Measurement Lab, and Power Stations.
Duties include leading help sessions, guiding experiments, and grading homework.
PUBLICATIONS & CONFERENCE
PROCEEDINGS AND PRESENTATIONS
R.
Spivey, R. Hewitt, H. Othman and T.
Corke, “Flow Separation Control on Trailing Edge Radii Using Single Dielectric
Barrier Discharge Plasma Actuators: An Application to Vehicle Drag Control”,
submitted to Springer, 2008.
Robert
C. Nelson, Thomas C. Corke, Hesham
Othman, Mehul P. Patel, Srikanth Vasudevan,
and Terry Ng, “A Smart Wind Turbine Blade Using Distributed
Plasma
Actuators for Improved Performance,” AIAA-2008-1312, 46th AIAA Aerospace
Sciences Meeting,
Corke, T.C, Matlis, E., and Othman, H., "Transition to turbulence in rotating-disk boundary layers -- convective and absolute instabilities", Journal of Engineering Mathematics, Vol. 57, Number 3, pp. 253--272, March 2007.
Orlov, D., Apker, T., He, C., Othman, H. and Corke, T.C., "Modeling and Experiment of Leading Edge Separation Control Using SDBD Plasma Actuators," AIAA-2007-877, 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, Nevada, 8-11 January 2007, USA.
Nelson, R., Corke, T.C, He,
C., Othman, H., Matsuno, T., Patel,
M., and Ng, T., "Modification of the Flow Structure over a UAV Wing for
Roll Control," AIAA-2007-884, 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting,
Othman, H. and Corke, T.C, "Experimental Investigation of Absolute Instability of a Rotating-Disk Boundary Layer", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 565, pp. 63--94, 2006.
Corke, T.C,
Matlis, E., and Othman, H.,
"Triad Resonance Mechanism for Turbulent Transition over a Rotating Disk,"
APS/DFD 59th Annual Meeting,
Iqbal, M.O.,
Kozlov, A., Schatzman, D., Othman, H.,
Thomas, F.O. and Corke, T.C, "Parametric Optimization of Single Dielectric
Barrier Discharge (SDBD) Plasma Actuators," APS/DFD 59th Annual Meeting,
Othman, H. and Corke, T.C.,
"Experimental Investigation of Absolute Instability of a Rotating-Disk Boundary
Layer,"
Othman, H. and Corke, T.C.,
"Experimental Investigation of Absolute Instability of a Rotating-Disk
Boundary Layer," APS/DFD 58th Annual Meeting,
Othman, H., "Experimental study of
absolute instability of a rotating-disk boundary layer", PhD Thesis, University
of Notre Dame, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, 2005,
Othman, H. and Corke, T.C.,
"Evolution of Temporal Disturbances in a Boundary Layer over a Rotating
Disk," APS/DFD 57th Annual Meeting,
Othman, H. and Corke, T.C., "Experimental Study of Absolute Instability over a Rotating Disk," Midwestern University Conference of Fluid Mechanics, Rochester, IN, April 3--5, 2003, USA.
El-Asfouri, A.S., Attya, A.M., Rezk, A.A., and Othman, H., "Theoretical Study of Thermal Response of Packed Beds for Thermal Energy Storage," Journal of Engineering and Applied Science, Vol. 44, No. 3, June 1997, pp. 551-566, Faculty
of Engineering,
Othman, H., "Theoretical Study of Thermal Response of Packed
Beds for Thermal Energy Storage," Master Thesis,
AFFILIATIONS
Member of American Physics Society.
COMPUTER SKILLS
C Programming, FORTRAN Programming, Matlab, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, LaTeX, Adobe Photoshop, and HTML.
INTERESTS
Listen to classic music, playing soccer, reading, and travel.
REFERENCES
Prof. Thomas C. Corke
Director, Center for Flow Physics and Control
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
101 Hessert Laboratory for Aerospace Research
Notre
Phone: (574) 631-3261
Fax: (574) 631-8355
Email: tcorke@nd.edu
Prof. Thomas J. Mueller
Roth-Gibson Professor
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
112 Hessert Laboratory for Aerospace Research
Notre
Phone: Phone: (574) 631-7073
Fax: (574) 631-8355
Email: mueller.1@nd.edu
Prof. Mihir Sen
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
368 Fitzpatrick Hall of Engineering
Notre
Phone: (574) 631-5975
Fax: (574) 631-8341
Email: Mihir.Sen.1@nd.edu
Prof. Flint O. Thomas
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
108 Hessert Laboratory for Aerospace Research
Notre
Phone: (574) 631-7899
Fax: (574) 631-8355
Email: Flint.O.Thomas.1@nd.edu