College of Engineering - Department of Aerospace Engineering

CURRICULUM VITA

ALLEN PLOTKIN

PROFESSOR

Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
San Diego State University
San Diego, California 92182-1308
(619) 594-7019
Education B.S. 1963 Columbia University, Engineering Mechanics
M.S. 1964 Columbia University, Engineering Mechanics
Ph.D. 1968 Stanford University, Engineering Mechanics
 Academic Employment

1985 - Present San Diego State University Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
1985 - 1990, 1993 - 1996, Professor and Chairman
1990 - 1993, 1996 - Present, Professor
 1968 - 1985 University of Maryland, Department of Aerospace Engineering, College Park, Maryland 1977 - 1985, Professor
1972 - 1977, Associate Professor
1968 - 1972, Assistant Professor
 1975 - 1976 California Institute of Technology, Visiting Associate in Engineering Science

Honors and Awards

1991 - Fellow, ASME
1996 - AIAA San Diego, Outstanding Contributions to AIAA at National Level
1993 - SDSU Alumni and Associates, Outstanding Contributions, Engineering.
1981 - Engineering Science Award of Washington Academy of Sciences.
1978 - Associate Fellow, AIAA.
1976 - AIAA - National Capital Section Young Engineer/Scientist Award.
ASEE - NASA Summer Faculty Fellow, 1969, 1970 Ames Research Center.
ASEE - NAVY Summer Faculty Fellow, 1980, Naval Surface Weapons Center.
ASEE - NAVY Summer Faculty Fellow, 1991, NOSC.
Several Who's Who listings including:
American Men and Women of Science
Who's Who in Engineering
Who's Who in Technology Today
Who's Who in Frontier Science and Technology
Who's Who in Aviation and Aerospace
International Who's Who in Engineering

Technical Activities

Associate Editor, AIAA Journal, 1986 - present.
Treasurer, ASEE-PSW, 1994-Present.
Vice Chair-Technical, AIAA San Diego, 1996-7.
Member, Council, AIAA San Diego, 1994-1995, 1996-1998.
Board of Directors, ASEE-PSW, 1991-1993.
Contributor to World Book Encyclopedia articles on Aerodynamics, Propeller, Streamlining,
Wind Tunnel, Fluid Mechanics.
Secretary and Chairman-elect, Aerospace Department Chairmen's Association, 1988.
Chairman, Aerospace Department Chairmen's Association, 1989, 1990.
Member, AIAA Academic Affairs Committee, 1986-Present.
Member, AIAA Pre-College Outreach Committee, 1996 -
Member, AIAA Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee 1981-1984, 1995-1997.
Fluid Dynamics Award Subcommittee 1995-1997
Chairman, 1996-1997.
Member, Council, AIAA - National Capital Section.
Chairman, Honors and Awards Committee, AIAA - NCS.
Corresponding Member, H-5 Panel (Analytical Ship Wave Relations) of SNAME.
Session chairman at several AIAA Aerospace Sciences and Fluid Dynamics meetings.

Reviewer for several journals including:
AIAA Journal
Journal of Aircraft
Journal of Applied Mechanics
Journal of Fluids Engineering
Invited lecturer at several universities, research laboratories and workshops Consultant, Applied Mathematics Branch, Naval Surface Weapons Center, 1981-4. Professional Societies: AIAA, ASME, SNAME, American Academy of Mechanics, ASEE, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi.

Significant Committee Assignments

SDSU
Graduate Council
Senate, two terms
Senate Executive Committee, 1996-7
College Expanded AP&P, 1992-1993
UM
Senate, two plus terms
Executive Committee of Senate, two terms
Faculty Council, Chairman
Chancellor Search Committee, 1974
Faculty Intern to the Chancellor, Fall 1979

Courses Taught

SDSU
AE 301 Low Speed Aerodynamics
AE 320 Aerospace Flight Mechanics
AE 550 Viscous Flow
AE 620 Incompressible Aerodynamics
EM 340 Fluid Mechanics
E 280 Methods of Analysis (Differential Equations)
UM
ENAE 371 Low Speed Aerodynamics
ENAE 671-2 Incompressible Aerodynamics

Principal Investigator on Grants:

A Theoretical Study of Two Problems Concerning Curved Laminar Jets, NASA-Ames Research Center, 1970-71.

Two-Dimensional Laminar Incompressible Separated Flow Past Airfoils, NASA-Ames Research Center, 1971-73.

A Translating Slender Ship in Variable Depth Shallow Water, NSF, 1975-77.

Selected Applications of Computational Aerodynamics (with John Anderson), NASA-Langley Research Center, 1980-84.

Effects of Tip Shape on Vortex Formation and Interaction, Army ARO Center of Excellence in Rotorcraft Technology, 1982-85.

Publications:

1. "A Numerical Solution for the Laminar Wake Behind a Finite Flat Plate", (with I. Flugge-Lotz), Journal of Applied Mechanics, 35, 4, 1968, 625-30; also, presented at ASME Winter Annual Meeting, 1968.

2. "A Second-Order Correction to the Glauert Wall Jet Solution", AIAA Journal, 8, 1, 1970, 188-9.

3. "Laminar Incompressible Flow Past A Circulation-Controlled Circular Lifting Rotor", AIAA Journal, 9, 8, 1971, 756-8.

4. "The Flow of a Laminar, Incompressible Jet Along a Parabola", Journal of Applied Mechanics, 39, 1, 1972, 13-17.

5. "An Improved Solution of the Two-Dimensional Jet-Flapped Airfoil Problem", (with R. G. Leamon), Journal of Aircraft, 9, 9, 1972, 631-5.

6. "The Symmetric Far Wake Behind a Cylinder Beneath the Free Surface", Journal of Hydronautics, 8, 1, 1974, 41-3.

7. "Laminar Boundary-Layer Induced Wave Forces on a Submerged Flat Plate Hydrofoil", Journal of Hydronautics, 8, 2, 1974, 47-53; also, Presented at the Seventh U.S. National Congress of Applied Mechanics, 1974.

8. "The Thin-Hydrofoil Thickness Problem Including Leading-Edge Corrections", Journal of Ship Research, 19, 2, 1975, 122-9.

9. "The Flow Past An Anchored Slender Ship in Variable-Depth Shallow Water", Journal of Hydronautics, 9, 3, 1975, 103-6.

10. "The Flow Past Anchored Slender Ship in Variable-Depth Shallow Water: An Extension", Journal of Hydronautics, 10, 1, 1976, 28-30.

11. "A Note on the Thin-Hydrofoil Theory of Keldysh and Lavrentiev", Journal of Ship Research, 20, 2, 1976, 95-7.

12. "Hydrodynamics Pressure Field on a Slender Ship Moving Over a High-Frequency Wavy Shallow Bottom", Journal of Applied Mechanics, 43, 2, 1976, 232-6; also, presented at the ASME National Applied Mechanics Conference, 1976.

13. "The Flow Due to a Slender Ship Moving Over a Wavy Wall in Shallow Water", Journal of Engineering Mathematics, 10, 3, 1976, 207-18.

14. "Slender Ship Shallow-Water Flow Past a Slowly Varying Bottom", Journal of Engineering Mathematics, 11, 4, 1977, 289-297.

15. "Slender-Body Potential Flow Between Closely-Spaced Walls", Journal of Hydronautics, 11, 2, 1977, 49-52; also, presented at 15th Midwestern Mechanics Conference, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago Circle, 1977.

16. "Leading-Edge Correction for Supercavitating Flat-Plate Hydrofoil", Journal of Fluid Engineering, 100, 3, 1978, 276-280; also presented at ASME Joint Applied Mechanics, Fluid Engineering and Bioengineering Conference, Yale University, 1977.

17. "Heave and Pitch Motion in Shallow Water Including the Effect of Forward Speed", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 80, 3, 1977, 433-441.

18. "Steady Transcritical Flow Past Slender Ships: A New Look", Journal of Hydronautics, 11, 2, 1977, 112.

19. "High Frequency Subsonic Flow Past a Pulsating Thin Airfoil", AIAA Journal, 16, 4, 1978, 405-07.

20. "Unsteady Transonic Thin Airfoil Theory for Power-Law Upwash", Journal of Applied Mechanics, 45, 2, 1978, 440-1.

21. "High-Frequency Subsonic Flow Past a Pulsating Thin Airfoil II: Gust-type Upwash", AIAA Journal 16, 7, 1978, 753-4.

22. "Transcritical Heave and Pitch Motions in Shallow Water", Journal of Ship Research, 24, 1, 1980, 45-49.

23. "Thickness-Induced Lift on a Thin Airfoil in Ground Effect", (with C. Kennell), AIAA Journal, 19, 11, 1981, 1484-6.

24. "Development of Confined Laminar-Wakes at Large Reynolds Numbers", AIAA Journal, 20, 2, 1982, 211-217, also presented at AIAA 19th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, St. Louis, 1981.

25. "A Numerical Study of Nonaxisymmetric Stokesian Flow in a Circular Tube", (with J. Strigberger), Journal of Applied Mechanics, 48, 3, 1981, 459-64.

26. "Wind Tunnel Corrections for Lifting Thin Airfoils", Journal of Applied Mechanics, 49, 2, 1982, 448-450.

27. "Spectral Method Solutions for Some Laminar Channel Flows with Separation", AIAA Journal, 20, 12, 1982, 1713-1719; also, presented at AIAA 20th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, 1982.

28. "Thickness and Camber Effects in Slender Wing Theory", AIAA Journal 21, 12, 1983, 1755-7.

29. "A Second-Order Theory for the Potential Flow About Thin Hydrofoils", (with C. Kennell), Journal of Ship Research, 28, 1, 1984; also, presented at 9th U.S. National Congress of Applied Mechanics, Cornell, 1982.

30. "Prediction of Vortex Lift on Interacting Delta Wings in Incompressible Flow", (with S. Dodbele), Journal of Aircraft, 21, 7, 1984, 451-2; also presented at AIAA 22nd Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, 1984.

31. "Confined Laminar Wakes at Small and Large Reynolds Number", (with R. W. Mei), Journal of Engineering Mathematics, 19, 2, 1985, 121-137; also presented at 17th AIAA Fluid Dynamics, Plasma Dynamics and Lasers Conference, Snowmass, Colorado, 1984.

32. "Development of Confined Stokes Flow Wakes", AIAA Journal, 23, 3, 1985, 349-353.

33. "Vortex Panel Calculation of Wake Rollup Behind a Large Aspect Ratio Wing", (with D. Yeh), AIAA Journal, 24, 9, 1986, 1417-1423; also presented at AIAA 18th Fluid Dynamics Conference, 1985, Cincinnati.

34. "Loss of Lift Due to Thickness For Low Aspect Ratio Wings in Incompressible Flow", (with S. S. Dodbele); Journal of Engineering Mathematics, 21, 1, 1987, 3-16, also presented at AIAA 18th Fluid Dynamics Conference 1985, Cincinnati.

35. "Navier-Stokes Solutions for Some Laminar Incompressible Flow with Separation in Forward Facing Step Geometries", (with R. W. Mei), AIAA Journal, 24, 7, 1986, 1106-1111; also presented at AIAA 24th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, 1986.

36. "A Finite-Difference Scheme for the Solution of the Steady Navier-Stokes Equations", (with R. W. Mei), Computers and Fluids, 14, 3, 1986, 239-251.

37. "Lifting-Line Solution for a Symmetrical Thin Wing in Ground Effect", (with C. H. Tan), AIAA Journal, 24, 7, 1986, 1193-1194; also part of presentation at Tenth U. S. National Congress of Applied Mechanics, Austin, 1986.

38. "Slender Wing in Ground Effect", (with S. S. Dodbele), AIAA Journal, 26, 4, 1988, 493-494.

39. "Thin Ellipse in Ground Effect: Lift Without Circulation", Journal of Applied Mechanics, 55, 1988, 735-736.

40. "Effect of Airfoil (Trailing Edge) Thickness on the Numerical Solution of Panel Methods Based on the Dirichlet Boundary Condition", (with S. Yon, J. Katz), AIAA Journal, 30, 3, 1992, 697-702.

41. "Airfoil Ground Effect Revisited", (with C. Coulliette), Aeronautical Journal, 100, 992, 1996, 65-74.; also AIAA 95-1832CP, presented at AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Meeting, San Diego, CA, June 1995.

Graduate Textbook

"Low-Speed Aerodynamics: From Wing Theory to Panel Methods", (with J. Katz), McGraw Hill, 1991.