 |
John D. BuckmasterProfessor Emerituslimey@illinois.edu |
Return to: Faculty |
| Office address | Mailing Address | Research Group |
|---|---|---|
| 319B Talbot Laboratory |
1717 W. Kirby Ave. pmb 212 Champaign, IL 61821 217-621-9786 |
Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets (CSAR) RocFire |
| Research Areas | ||
| Combustion, energetic materials | ||
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:
-
Zhang, J., T.L. Jackson, J. Buckmaster and F. Najjar (2011).
Erosion in Solid-Propellant Rocket Motor Nozzles with Unsteady Non-uniform Inlet Conditions. {\bf AIAA J. of Propulsion and Power}, Vol. 27(3), pp. 642-649. -
Jackson, T.L., Hooks, D.E. and Buckmaster, J. (2011).
Modeling the microstructure of energetic materials with realistic constituent morphology. {\bf Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics}, Vol. 36(3), pp. 252-258. - K.N. Hossain, T.L. Jackson, J. Buckmaster (2009) Numerical Simulations of Flame Patterns Supported by a Spinning Burner. {\bf Proceedings of the Combustion Institute}, Vol. 32, pp. 1209-1217.
- Y. Daimon, T.L. Jackson, V. Topalian, J. Freund, J. Buckmaster (2009) Effect of Propellant Morphology on Acoustics in a Planar Rocket Motor. {\bf Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics}, Vol. 23, pp. 63-77.
- F. Maggi, S. Stafford, T.L. Jackson \& J. Buckmaster (2008) Nature of packs used in propellant modeling. {\bf Physical Review E.}, Vol. 77, 046107 (17 pages).
- X. Wang, T.L. Jackson \& J. Buckmaster (2007) Numerical simulation of the three-dimensional combustion of aluminized heterogeneous propellants. {\bf Proceedings of the Combustion Institute}, Vol. 31, pp. 2055-2062.
- T.L. Jackson, J. Buckmaster, Z. Lu, D.C. Kyritsis \& L. Massa (2007) Flames in narrow circular tubes. {\bf Proceedings of the Combustion Institute}, Vol. 31, pp. 955-962.
- T.L. Jackson, J. Buckmaster \& X. Wang (2007) Modeling of propellants containing ultrafine aluminum. {\bf AIAA J. of Propulsion and Power}, Vol. 23(1), pp. 158-165.
- L. Massa, T.L. Jackson, J. Buckmaster \& F. Najjar (2007) Fluctuations above a burning heterogeneous propellant. {\bf Journal of Fluid Mechanics}, Vol. 581, pp. 1-32.
- L. Massa, T.L. Jackson \& J. Buckmaster (2007) Optimization of global kinetics parameters for heterogeneous propellant combustion using a genetic algorithm. {\bf Combust. Theory Modelling}, Vol. 11(4), pp. 553-568.
- Massa, L., T.L. Jackson \& J.D. Buckmaster (2007) Numerical simulation of Octogen-based propellant. {\bf AIAA Journal}, Vol. 45(9), pp. 2246-2258.
