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Austin

Joanna M. Austin

Assistant Professor

jmaustin@illinois.edu		 Return to: Faculty
Office address Mailing Address Research Group
311 Talbot Lab
217-333-3739		 306 Talbot Lab
104 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801		 Compressible Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
Research Areas
Fluid mechanics, compressible flow, and combustion.

Education:

  • PhD, Aeronautical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 2003
  • MS, Aeronautical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1997
  • BE, Mechanical and Space Engineering, University of Queensland, 1996
  • BSc, Mathematics, University of Queensland, 1996

Academic Positions:

  • Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 2003-present.

Honors and Awards:

  • CAREER Award, National Science Foundation 2010
  • Best Paper Award, AIAA Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee 2009
  • Young Investigator Award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research 2007
  • Richard Bruce Chapman Award for distinguished research in hydrodynamics in the Engineering and Applied Science Division, Caltech, 2003
  • Russell R. Vought Fellowship, Caltech 1997

Selected Publications:

  • Sharma, M., Austin, J.M., Glumac, N.G. and Massa, L., NO and OH spectroscopic vibrational temperature measurements in a post-shock relaxation region, AIAA Journal 48(7): 1434-1443 (2010).
  • Swantek, A.B. and Austin, J.M., Collapse of void arrays under stress wave loading, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 649:399-427 (2010).
  • Orescanin, M.M., Austin, J.M. and Kieffer, S.W., Unsteady high-pressure flow experiments with applications to explosive volcanic eruptions, Journal of Geophysical Research 115: B06206 (2010).
  • Sanderson, S.R., Austin, J.M., Liang, Z., Pintgen, F., Shepherd, J.E. and Hornung, H.G., Reactant jetting in unstable detonation, Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 46(2-3):116-131 (2010).
  • Massa, L. and Austin, J.M., Spatial linear stability analysis of a hypersonic shear layer with non-equilibrium thermochemistry, Physics of Fluids 20(8):084104 (2008).
  • Massa, L., Austin, J.M. and Jackson, T.L. Triple point shear layers in gaseous detonation waves, Journal of Fluid Mechanics 585:205-248 (2007).
  • Dufrene A., Sharma, M. and Austin, J.M., Design and characterization of a hypervelocity expansion tube facility, Journal of Propulsion and Power 23(6): 1185-1193 (2007).