Department of

Aerospace Engineering


Cengiz Camci

Deborah A. Levin, Ph.D.

Professor of Aerospace Engineering

233E Hammond Building

Penn State University

University Park, PA 16802

Phone: 814-865-6435 / Fax: 814-865-7092

E-mail: dalevin@psu.edu

Web page: http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/d/a/dal16/SOCREF/index.htm

Biography


Education

California Institute of Technology, Ph. D., Chemistry, 1979

State University of New York at Stony Brook, B. S., Chemistry, 1974

Honors and Awards

Chair of the AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Technical Committee June 2007 - Present

Chair, 27th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, held in California from July 10-15, 2010 January 2008 - Present

Session Chair, Plasma, Physics and Kinetics--Orlando January 2010 - January 2010

Research Interests

Dr. Levin's research combines topics in aerospace engineering and physical chemistry. Her research spans the general categories of modeling space experiments, space environments, microfluidics, micropropulsion, and plasma processes. The direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is the primary gas dynamic technique used in her research to calculate nonequilibrium, transitional flows. In addition, different multi-scale approaches have been developed to extend the applicability to DSMC to near-continuum/continuum flows. Molecular dynamics is utilized to develop accurate physical, fine-grained models particularly for chemical reactions and two-phase cluster flows.

Biography