Mirko Gamba and Benjamin Longmier Join Michigan's Aerospace Engineering this Fall
Dr. Gamba joins the Aerospace Engineering department as Assistant Professor this Fall 2012. He recently held a post-doctoral fellow in the High Temperature Gasdynamics Laboratory at Stanford University accepting the Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering (Gas Dynamics) at the University of Michigan in 2012. He received his MSE in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2003, the “Laurea” in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2004, and his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from UT Austin in 2009. His studies primarily focus on turbulent non-premixed combustion, the application of high-repetition-rate laser-based flow diagnostic techniques for the study of reacting turbulent flows, and supersonic mixing and combustion for scramjet engine applications. Dr. Gamba will add to the Department’s expertise in high-speed flows, turbulence, combustion, experimental methods and advanced diagnostic techniques.
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Dr. Longmier joins the Aerospace Engineering Department as Assistant Professor Fall 2012. He is developing the next generation of advanced thrusters from 10W to 200kW to enable wide access to remote destinations within the solar system. To enable this, his research interests center on electric propulsion, spacecraft and aerostat design, basic plasma physics, plasma materials interaction, and plasma diagnostics. Read more…
