mini- and micro-aerial vehicles

Michael Amitay

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Name:	Michael Amitay
Title:	Professor and James L. Decker '45 Endowed Chair in Aerospace Engineering and Director, Center for Flow Physics and Control (CeFPaC).
Department	Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
School	Engineering
Center	Center for Flow Physics and Control (CeFPaC)
Website:	http://www.rpi.edu/cefpac

Bio My research interests are in developing active flow control technologies for single and multi-phase flows with applications in macro- and micro-scale aeronautical/mechanical systems. In the field of flow control of single-phase flows, I apply various active flow control techniques on various manned and unmanned Aerial Vehicles, wind turbines, building integrated wind, and more. In multi-phase flows, I implement the new approach of mixing enhancement in bubbly flows in microchannels using active flow control. This technique can also be applied to control of mixing in combustion and for noise reduction.

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Education Ph.D., Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

Scholarly Works:

M. Amitay and A. Glezer "Aerodynamic Flow Control Using Synthetic Jet Actuators", Chapter in a book on "Control of Fluid Flow, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences", Springer Verlag, Berlin. Editors: P. Koumoutsakos and I. Mezic, 2006. ISSN print edition: 0170-8643, ISSN electronic edition: 1610-7411, ISBN-10 3-540-25140-5 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York.
M. Amitay and A. Glezer, "Separation Control using synthetic Jet actuators". Chapter in a book on Manipulation and Control of Jets in Crossflow. Series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Number 439. Editors: Ann R. Karagozian, Luca Cortelezzi and Alfredo Soldati, 2003, ISBN: 3-211-00753-9.

Recognitions:

2001 ATAS Outstanding Technical Publications Award
2002 Applied Aerodynamic TC best paper award