Samimy Named Howard D. Winbigler Designated Professor in Engineering
Mohammed Samimy, professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been named the Howard D. Winbigler Designated Professor in Engineering at The Ohio State University.
Samimy, who joined Ohio State in 1985, received his doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984. He was promoted to professor at Ohio State in 1994 and served as associate chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering from 1997 to 2000. He currently is director of the College of Engineering's Gas Dynamics and Turbulence Laboratory.
His research focuses on the physical understanding and control of high-speed and high Reynolds number flows. He has made significant contributions in several areas, including compressibility effects in free shear layers and jets, active and passive control of jets for noise mitigation and mixing enhancement, aeroacoustics, development and application of feedback flow control, and development and application of laser-based flow diagnostics.
Samimy has advised about 50 postdoctoral and graduate students. He has published more than 200 technical papers, has given invited talks in many national and international conferences, and has lectured extensively in various universities, national laboratories and industry in the United States and abroad.
A Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Samimy has served on NSF and NASA panels, has chaired and served in technical committees and has organized and chaired various national and international conferences and meetings.
