Aerospace Engineering

John D. Buckmaster Professor Emeritus limey@illinois.edu

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Professor Buckmaster retired in 2005 and spends one half of the year in Urbana, IL, one half in Eugene, OR.  He is the sole proprietor of Buckmaster Research which does collaborative research with the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) program.  He is on the editorial board of the journal Combustion Theory and Modeling, published by Taylor and Francis.

Research Areas:

Buckmaster Research has an STTR Phase II contract with AFOSR with CSE as the university partner.  Its goal is to produce computer simulations of interest to the solid-propellant rocket industry in the areas of propellant modeling, propellant combustion, aluminum agglomeration, chamber flow, and nozzle flow.  He also participates in the Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets (CSAR) within the CSE program.

Education:

• Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, Cornell University, 1969
• B.Sc.(1st Class Hon.) Aeronautical Engineering, Imperial College, London University, 1962

Academic Positions:

• Professor, University of Illinois, AAE (100%);  MIE  (0%), 1992-present
• Professor, University of Illinois, AAE, 1984-1992
• Professor, University of Illinois, TAM (50%);  Mathematics (50%), 1978-1983
• Visiting Professor, Oregon State University, Spring 2003
• Visiting Professor, IMA, University of Minnesota, Fall 1999.
• Professor, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology    1994
• Assoc. Professor, University of Illinois, TAM (50%); Mathematics (50%), 1974-1978
• Visiting Professor, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Spring 1991
• Visiting Professor, University of Washington, 1986-1987
• Visiting Professor, University of British Columbia, 1981-1982
• Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin    Fall 1977
• Assistant Professor, Yale University, 1972-1974
• Assistant Professor, New York University, 1969-1972
• Visiting Lecturer, University College, London
• Research Engineer, Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory

Major Honors and Awards:

• Zeldovich Gold Medal of the Combustion Institute, 2004
• AIAA Propellants  and Combustion Prize, 2002
• Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2000.
• Fellow of the Institute of Physics, 1999.
• John Simon Guggenheim  Memorial Foundation Fellow, 1990.
• Senior U.S. Scientist Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Humboldt Preis) 1985, 1986.
• Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1986, 'For fundamental contributions to fluid mechanics which have, in particular, helped transform combustion theory into a mathematical science'.
• Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1986

Selected Publications:

• J. Buckmaster, T.L.Jackson, A.Hegab, S.Kochevets, Modeling propellants and modeling propellant flames, Proceedings of the 37th Jannaf Combustion Meeting, Monterey, CA, November 2000.
• G.M.Knott, T.L.Jackson, J.Buckmaster, The random packing of heterogeneous propellants, AIAA Journal, in press, 2000.
• T.L.Jackson, J.Buckmaster, J.Hoeflinger, Three-dimensional flames supported by heterogeneous propellants, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, in press, 2000.
• J.Buckmaster, M.Short, Cellular instabilities, sublimit structures, and edge-flames in premixed counterflows, Combustion Theory and Modelling, vol.3, 199-214, 1999.
• J.Buckmaster, A.Hegab, T.L.Jackson, More results on oscillating edge-flames, Physics of Fluids, vol.12, 1592-1600, 2000.

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