NAGY S. NOSSEIR
Professor of Aerospace Engineering
San Diego State UniversityTelephone: (619) 594-4427 or -6074
Ph.D. - Aerospace, University of Southern California - 1979
M.A.Sc. - Aerospace, University of Toronto - 1974
M. S. - Aeronautics, Cairo University - 1973
B. S. - Aeronautics, Cairo University - 1970 (with Honors)
1990 - Present Chair, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Department, San Diego State University
1983 - Present Faculty, San Diego State University
1980 - 1983 Faculty, New York University
1979 - 1980 Research Associate, University of Southern California
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, member
American Physical Society, member
Sigma Xi
General Dynamics/Convair, 1983 - Present
R. Cushing and Company, 1980 - 1983
A grant entitled "Graduate Research and Training in Hypersonics", from NASA, submitted jointly with USC, $90 K, 1988-90.
A grant entitled "Upgrading of Data Acquisition System for Wind-Tunnel Laboratories", from NSF, $48 K, 1989.
Received Navy-ASEE Summer Research Fellowships, 1989 - 1991. The research projects were conducted at the NWC Propulsion Research Laboratory, (1989 and 1990), and NOSC (1991).
Received the Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise (MPPP) Award from SDSU, 1987 and 1990.
A grant entitled "Experimental Investigation of Flow Induced Oscillations in a Side-Dump Ramjet Combustor", from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), $130 K, 1984-1988
A grant entitled "Experimental Investigation of Air Bubble Plumes", from SDSU Foundation, 2 K, 1984.
A grant entitled "Development of a Novel Technique for Turbulence Measurement", from SDSU, $300, 1983.
Developed "Optical Pressure Transducer Based on Randomly Distributed Fiber Optics", with Ho, C. M. and Plocher, D., U.S. Patent No. 873757.
Developed "Fiber Optic Velocity Transducer", patent pending.
Nosseir, N. S., and H. S. Ribner, "Tests of a Theoretical Model of Jet Noise", AIAA Paper No. 75-436, 1975.
Ho, C. M. and N. S. Nosseir, "Large Coherent Structures in an Impinging Turbulent Jet", Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Turbulent Shear Flows, 1979. Also in Turbulent Shear Flows 2, pp. 297-304, Springer-Verlag, 1980.
Nosseir, N. S. and C. M. Ho, "Pressure Fields Generated by the Impinging of a Turbulent Jet on a Flat Plate", AIAA Paper No. 80-0980, 1980.
Ho, C. M. and N. S. Nosseir, "Dynamics of an Impinging Jet. Part I: The Feedback Phenomenon", J. Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 105, pp. 119-142, 1981.
Nosseir, N. S. and C. M. Ho, "Dynamics of an Impinging Jet. Part 2: The Noise Generation", J. Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 116, pp. 379-391, 1982.
Nosseir, N. S., "A Novel Technique for Turbulence Measurements", Proceedings of the 58th Semi-Annual STA Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, 1982.
Nosseir, N. S., "Impinging Jets", Chap. 13, Vol. 2, Encyclopedia of Fluid Mechanics, 1986, Cheremisinoff, Editor, Gulf Publishing.
Nosseir, N. S. and B. Dagan, "Tests of a Fiber-Optic Velocity Transducer", Experiments in Fluids 3, Springer-Verlag, 239-243, 1985.
Griffin, S., R. Crooks, A. McClain, and N. Nosseir, "Tests of Proposed Modifications of the General Dynamics Subsonic Wind Tunnel", Proceedings of the 64th Supersonic Tunnel Association (STA) Meeting, Vol. I, No. 9, 1985.
Nosseir, N. S., "Tests of Ramjet Combustion Instabilities at SDSU Supersonic Wind Tunnel", Proceedings of the 64th STA Meeting, Vol. II No. 35b, 1985.
Nosseir, N. S. and S. Behar, "The Flowfield of a Side-Dump Combustor", Proceedings of the 22nd JANNAF Combustion Meeting, CPIA Pub. 432, Vol. 1, 1985.
Nosseir, N. S. and U. Peled, "The Pressure Field Generated by Jet-Jet Impingement", AIAA Paper No. 86-1951, 1986.
Nosseir, N. S., U. Peled and G. Hildebrand, "Tones Generated Due to the Impingement of Two Jets on Each Other", Proceedings of the 23rd JANNAF Combustion Meeting, NASA/Langley Research Center, CPIA Pub. 457, Vol. 1, pp. 459-468, 1986.
Nosseir, N. S. and S. Behar, "Characteristics of Jet Impingement in a Side-Dump Combustor", AIAA Journal, Vol. 24, Nov. 1986, pp. 1752-1757.
Hildebrand, G. and N. S. Nosseir, "The Pressure Field Generated in a Cold-Flow Side-Dump Ramjet Combustor", Proceedings of the 24th JANNAF Combustion Meeting, CPIA Pub. 476, Vol. 2, pp. 199-208, 1987.
Nosseir, N. S., U. Peled and G. Hildebrand, "The Pressure Field Generated by Jet-on-Jet Impingement", AIAA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 10, 1987, pp. 1312-1317.
Schadow, K. C., Gutmark, E. and Nosseir, N. S., "Fluid Dynamics/Combustion Inter-actions as Driving Mechanism of Pressure Oscillations in a Regenerative Liquid Propellant Gun", Proceedings of the 27th JANNAF Combustion Meeting, 1990.
Ziereman, S., Gutmark, E. and Nosseir, N., "Characteristics of Two Adjacent Rectangu- lar Jets", AIAA Paper No. 92-0237, 1992.
Nosseir, N. S. and C. M. Ho, "Surface Pressure Fluctuations on a Flat Plate Impinged by a Jet", Bulletin of the Am. Phys. Soc., Ser. II, Vol. 21, p. 1233, 1976.
Nosseir, N. S. "The Hydrodynamic Feedback of an Impinging Water Jet", Bulletin of the Am. Phys. Soc, Ser. II, Vol. 22, p. 1280, 1977.
Nosseir, N. S. and C. M. Ho, "The Role of Coherent Structures in an Impinging Jet", Bulletin of the Am. Phys. Soc., Ser. II, Vol. 23, p. 1007, 1978.
Nosseir, N. S. and C. M. Ho, "Instability Modes of an Impinging Jet", Bulletin of the Am. Phys. Soc., Ser. II, Vol. 26, p. 1143, 1979.
Nosseir, N. S. and B. Dagan, "Static and Dynamic Response of a Fiber-Optic Transducer", Bulletin of the Am. Phys. Soc., Ser. II, p. 1545, 1984.
Nosseir, N. S. and C. DeBaets, "Vortex Generation in the Impingement of Two Side Jets of a Combustor", Bulletin of the Am. Phys. Soc., Ser. II, Vol. 29, p. 1535, 1984.
Nosseir, N. S. and G. Bresee, "The Pressure Field Generated by the Impingement of Two Jets on Each Other", Bulletin of the Am. Phys. Soc., Vol. 30, No. 10, p. 1736, 1985.
Nosseir, N. S. and M. Pierucci, "Acoustic Forcing of a Shear Layer Impinging on a Flat Plate", Bulletin of the Am. Phys. Soc., Vol. 30, No. 10, p. 1739, 1985.
Nosseir, N. S. and G. Hildebrand, "Pressure Oscillations Generated by the Impingement of Two Jets on Each Other", Bulletin of the Am. Phys., Soc., Vol. 31, No. 10, p. 1701, 1986.
Nosseir, N. S. and B. Nguyen, "Pressure Oscillations in a Side-Dump Combustor", Bulletin of the Am. Phys. Soc., Vol. 32, No. 10, p. 2051, 1987.
Born: March 28, 1948 in Cairo, Egypt
Married
Member of the American Contract Bridge League
Plays Soccer (Championship of Greater Los Angeles Soccer League, 1977)
Plays Tennis (Champion of 1992 AIAA Tournament, Reno, Nevada)