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Research

Degrees

• Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1972
  
• Master of Science in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineerin, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1969
  
• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1968

Scientific and Professional Society Memberships

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fellow
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Fellow
• American Physical Society, Fellow
• American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow
• American Society for Engineering Education
• Sigma Xi
• Pi Tau Sigma
• Tau Beta Pi

Honors and Awards

• Affiliated professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 2008
• Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2007
• IIT Alumni Association Professional Achievement Award, 1994
• 1982 NASA Langley Achievement Award for Outstanding research contributions in the area of turbulence control and viscous drag reduction
• The Large Wind Tunnels Working Group of AGARD (Advisory Group of Aerospace Research & Development of NATO) which includes members from Europe and U.S. selected a report entitled Experiments on the Management of Free-Stream Turbulence by R.I. Loehrke and H.M. Nagib, which was then published and distributed as an AGARD report in support of their activities
• Robert T. Knapp Award, 1977; given for an outstanding original paper by the Fluids Engineering Division of ASME
• Excellence in Teaching Award, IIT, 1973-1974

Field of Specialty

Fluid mechanics, particularly the areas of hydrodynamic stability and transition, applied turbulence, unsteady flows, separated flows, wind engineering and atmospheric diffusion, aeroacoustics, and convection heat transfer, with emphasis on management and control of flows and high Reynolds number wall-bounded turbulence.

Research Interests

Fluid mechanics and turbulence and flow management and control.

Areas in fluid mechanics, particularly the areas of hydrodynamic stability, transition of laminar flow to turbulent flow, applied turbulence, mixing of both laminar and turbulent streams, mixing of the two-phase flows, unsteady flows, separated flows, wind engineering and atmospheric diffusion, aeroacoustics, and convection heat transfer, with emphasis on management and control of flows.

Application of Information Technology, particularly to areas such as Fluid Dynamics, and Telemedicine as well as sensors and actuators based on MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) are also areas of his recent activities.

Selected Publications

Nagib, H. M., Chauhan, K. A., and Monkewitz, P. A., "Scaling of high Reynolds number turbulent boundary layers revisited," 4^th AIAA Theoretical Fluid Mechanics Meeting, Toronto, Canada, AIAA Paper 2005-4810 (2005).

Nagib, H. M., Christophorou, C., and Monkewitz, P. A., "High Reynolds number turbulent boundary layers subjected to various pressure-gradient conditions," IUTAM Symposium on One Hundered Years of Boundary Layer Research, DLR GÄottingen (2004).

Nagib H., Kiedaisch J., Wygnanski, I., Stalker, A., Wood, T., and McVeigh, M., "First-in-flight full-scale application of active flow control: The XV-15 tiltrotor download reduction," presented at the Research and Technology Organization AVT-111 Specialists' Meeting on Enhancement of NATO Military Flight Vehicle Performance by Management of Interacting Boundary Layer Transition and Separation, Prague, Czech Republic, Oct. 2004, Paper 29.

Monkewitz, P. A., and Nagib, H. M., "The asymptotic structure of high-Reynolds number boundary layers," IUTAM Symposium on One Hundered Years of Boundary Layer Research, DLR GÄottingen (2004).

Nagib, H. M., Christophorou, C., Ruedi, J., Monkewitz, P. A., Osterlund, J. M., and Gravante, S., "Can we ever rely on results from wall-bounded fows without direct measurements of wall shear stress?," 24^th AIAA Aerodynamic Measurement Technology and Ground Testing Conference, Portland, OR, AIAA Paper 2004-2392 (2004).

Zanoun, Durst, and Nagib, "Evaluating the law of the wall in two-dimensional fully developed turbulent channel flows," Physics of Fluids, Vol. 15 (2003) pp. 3079-3089.

Ruedi, Nagib, Österlund, and Monkewitz, "Evaluation of three techniques for wall-shear measurements in three-dimensional flows," Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 2 (2003).

Nagib, Greenblatt, Kiedaisch, Wygnanski, and Hassan, "Effective flow control for rotorcraft applications at flight Mach numbers," 31^st AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Anaheim, California, 2001, AIAA Paper 2001-2974 (2001).

Österlund, Johansson, Nagib, and Hites, "A note on the overlap region in turbulent boundary layers," Physics of Fluids, Vol. 12 (2000) pp. 1-4.

Corke, Shakib, and Nagib, "Mode selection and resonant phase locking in unstable axisymmetric jets," Fluid Mech., Vol. 223 (1991) pp. 253-311.

Wark and Nagib, "Experimental investigation of coherent structures in turbulent boundary layers," J. Fluid Mech., Vol. 230 (1991) pp. 183-208.

Cimbala, Nagib, and Roshko, "Large structure in far wakes of two-dimensional bluff bodies," J. Fluid Mech., Vol. 190 (1988) pp. 265-298.

Tan-atichat, Loehrke, and Nagib, "Interaction of free-stream turbulence with screens and grids: a balance between turbulence scales," J. Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 114 (1982) p. 501.