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Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics

College of Engineering, San Diego State University

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Joseph Katz

Professor and Chairman

Contact Information

Office: E-310
Phone: 619-594-6074
Fax: 619-594-6005
Email: jkatzATmail.sdsu.edu
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Education

B.Sc., Aeronautical Engineering, Technion, 1973
M.Sc., Aeronautical Engineering, Technion, 1974
D.Sc., Aeronautical Engineering, Technion, 1977

Honors and Awards

  • AIAA Associate Fellow
  • 1988 /95/98/02/03/04 SDSU Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award.
  • 1996 SDSU Alumni Association Board’s Outstanding Faculty Award.
  • 1997 NASA Space Act Award, for creative development (of the code PMARC).
  • 2003 NASA Creative Development: Software Release Award.

Selected Publications

  • Katz J., and Plotkin A., "Low-Speed Aerodynamics - Second Edition," Cambridge University Press, NY, 2001.
  • Katz J., "Race-Car Aerodynamics," - Second Edition, Robert Bentley Inc., Cambridge, MA, 2006.
  • Chen, M T, and Katz, J "Induced Drag of High-Aspect Ratio Wings" AIAA 2004-0038, presented in Reno, Nevada, Jan 2004.
  • Katz, J, Garcia D., and Sluder R., "Aerodynamics of Race Car Liftoff," SAE 2004-01-3506, SAE Motorsports Conf. Detroit, MI 2004. Also, Proc. Of the 2004 SAE Motorsport Engineering Conference, AIAA P-392, pp.45-52.
  • Katz, J, "Aerodynamics of Race Cars," Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 38, pp. 27-64, 2006.
  • Katz, J. "Internal Flow" Bernoulli Vol. 1, No. 1, May 2006, pp. 37-44.
  • Katz J. and Hamand X, "A Systematic Approach to the Preliminary Aerodynamic Design of Enclosed-Wheel Racecars,"SAE paper 2006-01-3662, SAE Motorsport Conf., Detroit, MI, Nov 2006. Also Proceedings of the Motorsport Conf., P-399, pp.603-613.
  • Katz J., "The Swift Wind Tunnel," Bernoulli Vol. 1, No. 3, Dec. 2006, pp. 16-20.
  • Katz J. and Morey F. "Aerodynamics of Large-Scale Vortex-Generator in Ground-Effect,"submitted to ASME J of Fluids Eng..
  • Katz J. "Vortex Flow and Race Car Aerodynamics" Bernoulli Vol. 1, No. 4, Apr. 2007,

Research and Teaching Interests

The research interests of Professor Katz are in a wide variety of areas, including Internal combustion engines: cooling, carburation, powerplant optimization, Passenger car safety, Two phase flow cooling, Heat transfer and heat exchangers, Wind tunnel measurements, including laser doppler anemometry in two phase flows, Non conventional naval propulsion e.g.: undulating propellers, swimming fins, Non steady aero and hydrodynamics, potential flow and general fluid dynamics, General aviation piston engine cooling and drag reduction post-stall-spin aerodynamics, Automotive aerodynamics and dynamics, Lifting body airplane, transonic wings, and stall resistant configurations.

Professor Katz teaches at both Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Departments cover the following fields: Thermodynamics, jet and rocket propulsion, viscous flow and heat transfer, aero and fluid dynamics (includimg numerical methods), aircraft stability and control, dynamics, mechanical vibrations, numerical analysis, automotive dynamics etc.

Laboratory

Wind Tunnel laboratory, Tel: (619)-594-6066.