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Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics

College of Engineering, San Diego State University

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Gustaaf (Guus) Jacobs

Assistant Professor

Contact Information

Office: E-306
Phone: 619-594-4046
Fax: 619-594-6005
Email: gjacobsATmail.sdsu.edu
Personal homepage: http://attila.sdsu.edu/~jacobs

Education

M.Sc., Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, 1998
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2003

Honors and Awards

  • Member; AIAA Technical Committee on Terrestrial Energy Systems, 2007-
  • Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 2006-.
  • Who's Who in the World, 2007-.
  • University Fellowship, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2002.
  • Provost's Award for Graduate Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2001.
  • Honor Propaedeuse, Delft University of Technology, 1994.

Selected Publications

  • Surana, A., Jacobs G.B., Haller, G., Extraction of Separation and Reattachment Surfaces from 3D Steady Shear Flows. , AIAA J. - to appear (2006).
  • Jacobs, G.B., Lapenta, G., Hesthaven, J.S. Simulations of Plasmas with a High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Particle-In-Cell Solver , AIAA Paper 2006-1171, 2006.
  • Jacobs G.B., Hesthaven J.S., "High-Order Nodal Discontinuous Galerkin Particle-in-Cell Methods on Unstructured Grids," J. Comput. Phys., 214, 96-121, (2005).
  • Jacobs, G.B., Kopriva, D.A., and Mashayek, F., "A Validation Study of a Multidomain Spectral Code for Simulation of Turbulent Flows", AIAA Journal, 43 (6), 1256-1264, 2005.

Research and Teaching Interests

The research interests of Professor Jacobs can broadly be defined in the area of computational multiphase flows and fluid mechanics. Particular emphasis is on simulation and analysis of particle-laden and two-phase flows in propulsion systems, and plasmas in high-power microwave devices. Research focuses on flow control to optimzed combustion in spray combustor and/or to reduce drag on aerodynamic vehicles, identification of three-dimensional (3D) unsteady flow separation in complex geometries, and design of high-power microwave devices. Numerical research has focused on the coupling of low dispersive, flexible high-order continuum discretization strategies to discrete particle method.

The teaching interest of Professor Jacobs are closely connected to his research interests, and include the teaching of computational fluid dynamics, high-speed aerodynamics, and propulsion.

Laboratory

CFD laboratory, Tel: