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Conway Chosen for Dirk Brouwer Award

AE Prof. Bruce A. Conway is the 2009 recipient of the Dirk Brouwer Award.

Chasiotis Travels to U.S. Capitol to Receive Presidential Early Career Award

AE Associate Prof. Ioannis Chasiotis was among 100 young researchers honored.

Bretl Students' Robotics Work Featured on Popular Science Site

A robotics project recently has been featured on the Popular Science website.

Calling All Aerospace Engineering Fans!

AE encourages you to show your loyalty by becoming a fan on the Department's new Facebook page.

Events

February 22
AE 590 Seminar
"Unifying the Mechanics of Continua, Cracks, and Particles"

March 1
AE 590 Seminar
"Speed Flow Control Using Energy Deposition"

 
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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