Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Writer: Kimberly Draper
news@utsi.edu
As of December 4, 2008, Brian Maicke will be the first University
of Tennessee Space Institute graduate student to have a paper
published in the Royal Society Journal, Proceedings of the Royal
Society A. Brian, along with Dr. Joe Majdalani, wrote A
Constant Shear Stress Core Flow Model of the Bidirectional Vortex.
The paper was a spinoff for Maicke out of his Masters Degree in
Aerospace, where he discusses the modeling of swirling motions (such
as tornados), constructs a mathematical model, and describes the
important physical characteristics of these flow fields. Such
characteristics are now being used to improve the efficiency and
performance of vortex-fired liquid and hybrid rocket engines. Before
submission to the Royal Society, Maicke and Majdalani first
presented the work as a conference paper in June 2007 at the 37th
AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference in Miami, FL.
Proceedings A has a well-known history of publishing
pioneering and influential research articles across the entire range
of the physical and mathematical sciences. Dating back to the days
of Newton, the transactions of the Royal Society are considered the
world’s oldest repository of scientific articles. Maicke and
Majdalani are proud to share the journal’s pages with illustrious
names in science. Readers may recognize some of their scientific
heroes in Newton, Braggs, Dirac, Gauss, Heaviside, Heisenberg,
Jeffreys, Lord Kelvin, Lighthill, Maxwell, Pauli, Poincare, Lord
Rayleigh, Raman, Reynolds, Schrödinger, Stokes, Taylor, and Young.
The Royal Society journal publishes research papers, as well as
short reviews containing original and interesting new ideas.
The paper is due to be published online on Thursday, December 4,
2008. This will be the second journal article originating from
Maicke’s M.S. work, with the first one being On the Rotational
Compressible Taylor Flow in Injection-Driven Porous Chambers, which
appeared earlier this year in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. The
UTSI team would like to extend special thanks to Dr. Martin
Chiaverini, Head of Propulsion at Orbital Technologies Corporation,
and to Dr. Mark Anderson of The University of Wisconsin, both of
whom helped in providing the experimental data that was used in the
analysis.
Brian Maicke (left) and Dr. Joseph Majdalani
