DEPARTMENT OF
AEROSPACE ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS Department Update - Summer 2020
Professor Candler Elected to National Academy of Engineering Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Professor Graham V. Candler has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions awarded to an engineer. Only 87 new members nationwide and 18 international members to receive the honor this year. Candler, a University of Minnesota McKnight Presidential Professor, is nationally renowned expert on computational methods to study high-speed flight with application to future hypersonic flight systems and the entry of spacecraft into planetary atmospheres. He is recognized by the National Academy for development and validation of computational
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models for high-fidelity simulation of supersonic and hypersonic interactions. Recently, his work has focused on the development of high accuracy simulation methods for the exploration of hypersonic flight system design space. He has published extensively in the areas computational methods, high-temperature gas dynamics, boundary layer laminar to turbulent transition, and validation of computational simulations with hypersonic wind tunnel data. Candler has been at the University of Minnesota since 1992, and leads a research group in hypersonic aerodynamics and computational fluid dynamics. Candler and the other individuals selected for membership this year will be formally inducted during a ceremony at the NAE annual meeting on Oct. 4 in Washington, D.C.
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