Jacques Richard
Senior Lecturer
Aerospace Engineering
Texas A&M University
United States of America
Biography
Jacques Richard is a senior lecturer in the department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, USA. He has completed his Ph. D. in Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; 1989. He has done M. S. in Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; 19876. He has done B. S. in Aerospace Engineering from Boston University; 1984. He has won awards like 1995 - NASA Glenn (formerly Lewis) Research Center Teamwork Awareness Award, 1995 - NASA Team Achievement Award: Supersonic Flow Drag Probe, (Cash Award) etc. He has published many research papers which are appeared in various national and international journals.
Research Interest
Electric propulsion: ion thruster optics plasma flow, MHD model of ion thruster discharge cathode assembly (DCA), Plasma jets in magnetic fields, Hemodynamics (blood flow in carotid artery)s, Atmospheric and oceanic wave interaction, Lattice-Boltzmann methods, WENO, Spectral element methods
Publications
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Bowen, S. P., Richard, J. C., Mancini, J. C., Fessitides, V. and Crooker, B., "Microseism and Infrasound Generation by Cyclones", J. Acoustical Soc. of America (JASA), Vol. 113, No. 5, pp. 2562-2573, May 2003.
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Richard, Jacques C., "Unsteady Quasi-1D Non-Linear Dynamic Model of Supersonic Surge in a Supersonic Through-Flow Fan", AIAA J. Propulsion and Power, Vol. 22, No 1, Jan.-Feb. 2006, pp. 188-196.
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Richard, Jacques C. and Young, Brian, "Multi-Species Lattice-Boltzmann Models of Xe, Xe+, Xe++, e- Flow through Ion Thruster Optics", AIAA paper Number AIAA-2006-5006, http://www.aiaa.org 42nd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit, Sacramento Convention Center, Sacramento, CA, 9 - 12 Jul 2006. Follow-up to be submitted to AIAA J. Propulsion and Power, 2006.
