Lyle N. Long

Professor of Aerospace Engineering

Director, Graduate Minor Program in High Performance Computing
Administrative Director, Rotorcraft Center of Excellence
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Professor of Acoustics

D.Sc., George Washington Univ., 1983

229 Hammond Building
Department of Aerospace Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania 16802

Office: (814) 863-1172
Fax: (814) 865-7092
Email: lnl@psu.edu
Personal web page

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

General research interests are in parallel computing, computational fluid dynamics, aeroacoustics, rarefied gas dynamics, molecular dynamics, unmanned air vehicles, and computer software. Most recently, the research has focused on computational simulations of detonations and blast waves, nonlinear acoustics, flapping wing aerodynamics, turbulent flow simulations for rotorcraft, and java-based processors for unmanned vehicles.

COURSES TAUGHT RECENTLY:

Object Oriented Programming, Unmanned Air Vehicles, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Parallel Computing

EDUCATION

D.Sc. – 1983 – George Washington University, Washington , D.C.; Aerospace Engineering. Thesis Title: “ The Compressible Aerodynamics of Rotating Blades using an Acoustic Formulation ” (Advisors: F. Farassat and M. K. Myers )

M.S. – 1978 – Stanford University, Stanford, California; Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering

B.M.E. – 1976– University of Minnesota, Mechanical Engineering, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, 1989-present

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information, and Communication ( JACIC ), AIAA, Washington, D.C., 2002 - present.

Lockheed Aircraft, Burbank and Rye Canyon, CA, 1978-1989

Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA, Summers of 1990-1993.

Joint Institute for Advancement of Flight Sciences (JIAFS), NASA Langley, Hampton, VA, 1977 - 1983.

Stanford Univ. and NASA Ames, Moffett Field, CA, 1977-1978.

Donaldson Co. Inc., Minneapolis, MN, 1974-1976.

Associate Fellow of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) (1976 – present).

Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) (1990 – present).

Member of the American Helicopter Society (1995 – present).

Faculty Advisor for the PSU Mars Society Student Chapter (2002 – present).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

E. Alpman, L.N. Long, and B. Kothmann, "Unsteady Fan-in-Fin Simulations, Parts 1 and 2," Journal of Aircraft, 2003.

J.B. Anderson, and L.N. Long, "Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Simulation of Chemical Reaction Systems: Prediction of Ultrafast Detonations, Jnl. Chem. Phys., Feb., 2003.

K. Corfeld, R. Strawn, and L.N. Long, "A Computational Aerodynamics Simulation of a Martian Rotorcraft," Journal of the American Helicopter Society, 2003.

F. Souliez, L.N. Long, P.J. Morris, and A. Sharma, "Landing Gear Aerodynamic Noise Prediction using Unstructured Grids," International Journal of Aeroacoustics, Vol. 1, 2002.

O. C. Nwobi, L. N. Long, and M. M. Micci, "Molecular Dynamics Studies of Thermophysical Properties of Supercritical Ethylene, Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 13, No. 2, April-June, 1999.

L. N. Long, P. J. Morris, K. Morooney, and S. Kellogg, "The Teaching and Learning of High Performance Computing," Journal of Engineering Education," Vol. 87, No. 5, 1998.

T. L. Kaltz, L. N. Long, and M. M. Micci, "Supercritical Vaporization of Liquid Oxygen Droplets using Molecular Dynamics," Combustion Science and Technology, vol. 136, 1998, pp 279-301.

L.N. Long and H. Weiss, "The Velocity Dependence of Aerodynamic Drag: A Primer for Mathematicians," American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 106, No. 2, Feb., 1999, pp. 127-135.

P. J. Morris, L. N. Long, A. Bangalore, and Q. Wang, "A Nonlinear Disturbance Equation Method for Supersonic Jet Noise," Vol. 133, Jnl. of Computational Physics, 1997, pp. 56-74.

V. Ahuja and L. N. Long, "Electromagnetic Scattering using a Parallel Finite Volume Runge-Kutta Algorithm," Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 137, 1997.

Y. Ozyoruk and L. N. Long, "Multigrid Acceleration of a High-Resolution Computational Aeroacoustics Scheme," AIAA Journal., Vol. 35, No. 3, March, 1997, pp. 428-433.

Y. Ozyoruk and L. N. Long, "A New Efficient Algorithm for Computational Aeroacoustics on Massively Parallel Computers, Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 125, No. 1, pp. 135-149, April, 1996.

D. Zelesnik, M.M. Micci, and L.N. Long, "Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Simulation of Low Reynolds Number Nozzle Flows," Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 10, No. 4. July, 1994.

L.N. Long, M. Kamon, T, Chyczewski, J. Myczkowski, "A Deterministic Parallel Algorithm to Solve a Model Boltzmann Equation (BGK)," Computing Systems in Engineering Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1-4, Dec., 1992.

L. N. Long, M. Khan, and H.T. Sharp, "A Massively Parallel Euler/Navier-Stokes Method," AIAA Journal, Vol. 29, No. 4, April, 1991.

L.N. Long, "Navier-Stokes and Monte Carlo Results for Hypersonic Flows," AIAA Journal, Vol. 29, No. 2, Feb., 1991.

L.N. Long; "Uniformly-Valid Asymptotic Solutions to the Orr-Sommerfeld Equation," Journal of Engineering Mathematics, Vol. 21, 1987, pp. 167-178.

L.N. Long and G.A. Watts; "Arbitrary Motion Aerodynamics using an Aeroacoustic Approach," AIAA Journal, Vol. 25, No. 11, Nov., 1987, pp. 1442-1448.

L.N. Long; "The Aerodynamics of Propellers and Rotors using an Acoustic Formulation in the Time Domain," AIAA Journal, Vol. 23, No. 6, June, 1985.

RESEARCH SPONSORS:

National Science Foundation (NSF)

National Rotorcraft Technology Center (NRTC)

NASA Langley Research Center

Office of Naval Research (ONR)

Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL)

Lyle N. Long

Professor of Aerospace Engineering

Director, Graduate Minor Program in High Performance Computing Administrative Director, Rotorcraft Center of Excellence Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Professor of Acoustics

D.Sc., George Washington Univ., 1983

Director, Graduate Minor Program in High Performance Computing
Administrative Director, Rotorcraft Center of Excellence
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Professor of Acoustics