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Parviz Moin

Center for Turbulence Research
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
Building 500, Room 500C
Stanford, CA 94305

Phone:	650-723-9713
Fax:	650-725-3525
Email:	moin@stanford.edu

Background

Moin is the founding director of the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford and Ames. Established in 1987 as a research consortium between NASA and Stanford, Center of Turbulence Research is devoted to fundamental studies of turbulent flows. Center of Turbulence Research is widely recognized as the international focal point for turbulence research, attracting diverse groups of researchers from engineering, mathematics and physics.

Professor Moin pioneered the use of direct and Large Eddy Simulation techniques for the study of turbulence physics, control and modelling concepts and has written widely on the structure of turbulent shear flows. His current interests include: interaction of turbulent flows and shock waves, aerodynamic noise and hydroacoustics, aerooptics, combustion, numerical analysis, turbulence control, large eddy simulation and parallel computing. He is a Co-Editor of the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics and Associated Editor of Physics of Fluids, Journal of Computational Physics, and on the Editorial Board of Turbulent Combustion and the SIAM Journal of Multiscale Modeling and Simulation. He is currently serving on the Naval Research Advisory Committee (NRAC).

Awards and Honors

Professor Moin has been awarded NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, the AIAA Lawrence Sperry Award, AIAA Fluid Dynamics Award, the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, the Outstanding Achievement Award of the University of Minnesota, the Humboldt Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany, a Doctores Honoris Causa from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. In 2009, he was recognized by the Chinese Academy of Sciences with an Einstein Professorship. Professor Moin is the recipient of the APS Fluid Dynamics Prize. He is recognized as an ISI highly cited researcher. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and AIAA, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Education

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, June 1978 (with Great Distinction)
M.S. Mathematics, Stanford University, June 1978
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, June 1975
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, June 1974 (with High Distinction)

Recent Journal Publications

Computational study of optical distortions by separated shear layers and turbulent wakes. A. Mani, P.Moin and M. Wang. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 625:273-298, 2009. (URL) (BIB)
Direct numerical simulation of turbulence in a nominally-zero-pressure-gradient flat-plate boundary layer. X. Wu and P.Moin. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 630:5-41, 2009. (URL) (BIB)
Resolution requirements for aero-optical simulations. A. Mani, M. Wang and P. Moin. Journal of Computational Physics, 227(21):9008-9020, 2008. (URL) (BIB)
A predictive wall model for large-eddy simulation based on optimal control techniques. J.A. Templeton, M. Wang and P. Moin. Physics of Fluids, 20(6):065104, 2008. (URL) (BIB)
A direct numerical simulation study on the mean velocity characteristics in turbulent pipe flow. X. Wu and P. Moin. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 608:81-112, 2008. (URL) (BIB)

Current Ph.D. Students

Name	Research Area
Sanjeeb Bose	Grid-Independent Large-Eddy Simulations
Curtis Hamman	Multiphase Acoustics and Turbulent Convection
Ik Jang	Simulation of Turbulence in Hypersonic Vehicles
Yaser Khalighi	Aeroacoustics of Complex Flows at Low Mach Number
Dokyun Kim	Air Layer Drag Reduction in Two-Phase Flows
Matt McClintock	Aeroacoustics of High-Speed Aircraft
Taraneh Sayadi	Transition to Turbulence in Compressible Flows
Mohammad Shoeybi	Large-Eddy Simulation of Compressible Turbulence in Complex Geometries

Ph.D. Graduates

Name	Year	Current Employment
Robert deLancey Moser, Jr	1984	Professor Department of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics University of Texas, Austin
Laura Lynn Pauley	1988	Arthur L. Glenn Professor of Engineering Education Professor of Mechanical Engineering Pennsylvania State University
Haecheon Choi	1992	Professor Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Director, Center for Turbulence and Flow Control Research Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Sangsan Lee	1992	Director KORDIC Supercomputer Center
João Correia Neves	1992	Financial Analyst First National Bank of Chicago
Blair Perot	1993	Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Massachusetts
Olav Sendstad	1993	Institutt for Energiteknikk Instituttveien 18, P.O. Box 40 N-2007 Kjeller, Norway
Timothy Colonius	1994	Professor Mechanical Engineering California Institute of Technology
Hung Le	1994	Lecturer Stanford University
Knut Akselvoll	1995	Consultant McKinsey & Company, Oslo, Norway
Patrick Beaudan	1995	Owner and Managing Member, Sophia, LLC San Fransisco
Krishnan Mahesh	1996	Professor Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics University of Minnesota
Brian E. Mitchell	1996	Manager General Electric Corporation (Research and Development) Schenectady, New York
Yang Na	1996	Professor and Chair Deptartment of Mechanical Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea
Jonathan Freund	1998	Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Arthur Kravchenko	1998	Research Engineer Dupont Dupont R&D, Wilmington, Delaware
Thomas Bewley	1999	Associate Professor Department of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences University of California, San Diego, California
Charles Pierce	2001	(Deceased) Research Staff Stanford University
Ned Hammond	2003	Applied Materials Corporation, CA
Dongyhun You	2004	Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Computational Flow Physics and Engineering Lab Carnegie Mellon University
Alison Marsden	2005	Assistant Professor Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering
Jeremy Templeton	2005	Technical Staff Combustion Research Faciltiy Sandia/Livermore National Lab
Albert Honein	2005	Risk Analyst New York, New York
Cliff Wall	2005	Investment Banking New York, New York
Vincent Terrapon	2005	Postdoctoral Fellow Center for Turbulence Research Stanford University
Seongwon Kang	2007	Postdoctoral Fellow Center for Turbulence Research Stanford University
Qiqi Wang	2008	Assistant Professor Aeronautics and Astronautics Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lee Shunn	2009	Technical Staff Instrumentation, Control and Intelligent Systems Group Idaho National Laboratory
Ali Mani	2009	Research Fellow Center for Turbulence Research Stanford University