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Aerospace Engineering Honors Outstanding Students

AE recognized several undergraduate and graduate students this spring with awards for their scholastic achievement and other contributions.

Kessler Endowment Adds Resource for Student Projects

Student projects in Aerospace Engineering will get a boost from the newly established James J. Kessler, Jr., Endowment Fund.

Congratulations, Aerospace Engineering Graduates!

Aerospace Engineering at Illinois welcomed 77 new alumni following Commencement ceremonies May 12.

Space Shuttle Veterans Altman, Nagel, Return to Campus for Talks

Aerospace Engineering alumni speak about their experiences on space missions.

Engineering at Illinois Students Enter Drone in National Challenge

AE students design small drone aircraft for national competition.

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Thomas L. Jackson

Adjunct Professor

tlj@csar.uiuc.edu
Office address Mailing Address Research Group

Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets
2256 DCL

phone: 217-333-9311
fax: 217-333-8497

MC-278
1304 West Springfield Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801

 
Research Areas
Current research efforts at CSAR include the development of ROCFIRE, a fully three-dimensional code that examines the burning characteristics of heterogeneous solid propellants.

View more information about Adjunct Professor Jackson. Dr. Thomas L. Jackson is a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets (CSAR) a Computational Science and Engineering Affiliate (CSE), an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (TAM), and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering (AE), all at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Mathematics Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1985 after which he joined the staff of the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE) where he had previously been a Graduate Research Assistant. In 1987 he became an Assistant, then (in 1992) an Associate, Professor at Old Dominion University in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. In 1993 he moved back to ICASE for five years before moving to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he now works. He has co-edited two books, co-authored a textbook on hydrodynamic stability, and authored or co-authored more than 120 papers. He is currently a member of the Combustion Institute, and an Associate Fellow of AIAA. He has been a paper and grant referee for many organizations and journals. His expertise is in the area of combustion, and the large-scale simulation thereof, and in combustion stability. Current Research Interests