Michael Amitay

Professor and James L. Decker '45 Endowed Chair in Aerospace Engineering and Director, Center for Flow Physics and Control (CeFPaC).

About

Prof. Amitay's research interests are in developing active flow control techniques with applications in aeronautical/mechanical systems. He conducts state-of-the-art experiments to understand the flow phydics of 3-D flow fields and the interaction of flow control actuators with these flows.

Research

Primary Research Focus
Experimental fluid mechanics
Other Focus Areas

Active and passive Flow Control, Experimental Aerodynamics

Teaching

Fluid Dynamic Laboratory

Flight Mechanics

Aerodynamic Flow Control

Capstone: Air Vehicle Design

Office Hours

Wednesdays 2-4pm

Recognition

Awards & Honors

Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

Publications

The following is a selection of recent publications in Scopus. Michael Amitay has 206 indexed publications in the subjects of Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Physics and Astronomy.

Tomás E. Rojas Carvajal, Tufan Kumar Guha, Michael Amitay
AIAA Journal
, 62
, 2024
, pp.620-636
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Tomás E. Rojas Carvajal, Michael Amitay, Tufan Kumar Guha
Physical Review Fluids
, 8
, 2023
.
Frank A. Tricouros, Michael Amitay, Tyler Van Buren
Experiments in Fluids
, 64
, 2023
.
Michael T. Sheng, Scott M. Keller, Anthony Mickalauskas, David Menicovich, Michael Amitay, Christopher S. Lynch
AIAA Journal
, 61
, 2023
, pp.3923-3934
.
Jean Hélder Marques Ribeiro, Jacob Neal, Anton Burtsev, Michael Amitay, Vassilios Theofilis, Kunihiko Taira
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
, 976
, 2023
.
Jacob M. Neal, Michael Amitay
Physical Review Fluids
, 8
, 2023
.
Anton Burtsev, Wei He, Kai Zhang, Vassilios Theofilis, Kunihiko Taira, Michael Amitay
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
, 944
, 2022
.
Frank A. Tricouros, Michael Amitay, Tyler Van Buren
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
, 942
, 2022
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Nicholas Rathay, Michael Amitay
Physical Review Fluids
, 7
, 2022
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Jacob Neal, Jack Ottinger, Brandon Gares, Michael Amitay
IACAS 2022 - 61st Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Science
, 2022
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