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 223 indexed publications in the subjects of Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Physics and Astronomy.

Cooper Nelson, Tufan Kumar Guha, Michael Amitay
AIAA Aviation Forum and ASCEND, 2024
, 2024
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Tomás E. Rojas Carvajal, Tufan Kumar Guha, Michael Amitay
AIAA Journal
, 62
, 2024
, pp.620-636
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Cooper Nelson, Tufan Kumar Guha, Michael Amitay
AIAA Journal
, 62
, 2024
, pp.1503-1516
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Akshit Jariwala, John D.B. Wylie, Alexandros Tsolovikos, Saikishan Suryanarayanan, Efstathios Bakolas, Michael Amitay, David Goldstein
AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition, 2024
, 2024
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John D.B. Wylie, Michael Amitay
AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition, 2024
, 2024
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Paul Remneff, Tomás E. Rojas Carvajal, Michael Amitay
AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition, 2024
, 2024
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Jacob Neal, Michael Amitay
AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition, 2024
, 2024
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Tomás E. Rojas Carvajal, Michael Amitay, Tufan Kumar Guha
Physical Review Fluids
, 8
, 2023
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Frank A. Tricouros, Michael Amitay, Tyler Van Buren
Experiments in Fluids
, 64
, 2023
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Michael T. Sheng, Scott M. Keller, Anthony Mickalauskas, David Menicovich, Michael Amitay, Christopher S. Lynch
AIAA Journal
, 61
, 2023
, pp.3923-3934
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