David Forliti

Biography

"David received his Ph.D., 2001, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota. David’s research interests are in the general areas of fluid mechanics and combustion, and he has been working in these areas for the past twenty years. Research includes a broad range of subjects including control of turbulent flows, supersonic shear flows, flame stabilization, combustion instability, experimental methods, and hydrodynamic stability. David has experience in academia at the State University of New York at Buffalo and was a Senior Research Scientist working for Jackson and Tull and Sierra Lobo, Inc. as an on-site contractor at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards Air Force Base. David’s work is primarily experimental in nature, although he has also worked in the areas of hydrodynamic stability theory and has collaborated with researchers in modeling and simulation applications. David received the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 2006 for his research in the area of fluidic flame stabilization. David also worked at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base through the Summer Faculty Fellowship program where he worked on novel methods for inducing deflagration-to-detonation transition in pulse detonation engines. M.S., 1995, Mechanical Engineering, Florida State University B.S., 1993, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota"

Research Interest

Fluid mechanics , Combustion, Propulsion systems, Experimental methods, Hydrodynamic stability, Multiphase flows.