Joanna M. Austin

            

         Office
         311 Talbot Lab
         phone: (217) 333 3739
         fax: (217) 244-0720
         jmaustin@uiuc.edu
 
        Mailing Address
           306  Talbot Lab, University of Illinois
        104 S. Wright St.
        Urbana, IL 61801

 

Research: compressible fluid mechanics, detonation and combustion

Compressible Fluid Mechanics Laboratory

Education:
Ph.D.  2003 Aeronautics (minor Applied Mathematics), California Institute of Technology
M.Sc. 1998 Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology
B.E.    1997 Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia
B.Sc.  1997 Mathematics, University of Queensland, Australia

Scholarships and Awards:

·         Richard Bruce Chapman award for distinguished research in hydrodynamics in the Engineering and Applied Science Division, Caltech, 2003

·         Russell R. Vought scholarship, Caltech, 1997

·         George Washington University scholarship for internship at NASA Langley, 1994

·         Australian Students Prize, 1990

 

Publications:

F. Pintgen, C.A. Eckett, J.M. Austin and J.E. Shepherd, Direct Observations of Reaction Zone Structure in Propagating Detonations, Combust. Flame 133 (3):211-229, 2003

 

J.M. Austin and J.E. Shepherd, Detonations in Hydrocarbon Fuel Blends, Combust. Flame 132 (1-2): 73-90, 2003

 

E. Wintenberger, J.M Austin, M. Cooper, S. Jackson, and J.E. Shepherd, An Analytical Model for the Impulse of a Single-Cycle Pulse Detonation Engine, 37th AIAA JPC Conference, J. Propul. Power, 19 (1): 22-38, 2003

 

M. Cooper, S. Jackson, J.M. Austin, E. Wintenberger, and J.E. Shepherd, Direct Experimental Impulse Measurements for Detonations and Deflagrations, 37th AIAA JPC Conference, J. Propul. Power, 18, 5, 1033-1041, 2002

 

Teaching:

Ae311 Incompressible Flow

Ae434 Rocket Propulsion