Lyle A. Long, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Mathamatics
Director of Computational Science Graduate Minor
229C Hammond Building,
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-1172 / Fax: 814-865-7092
E-mail: lnl@psu.edu
Education
Doctor of Science, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., 1983. (Advisors: F. Farassat and Michael K. Myers)
Master of Science, Stanford University, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford, California, 1978. (Advisor: R. S. Shevell)
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering with Distinction, The University of Minnesota, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1976
Honors and Awards
AIAA Sustained Service Award, 2010, "For dedicated efforts in creating the JACIC Journal, numerous publications and service on technical committees."
Moore Distinguished Scholar, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 2007-2008.
Fellow, American Physical Society (APS), 2007. "For the advancement and teaching of computational science. In particular, for the use of high performance computers for computational fluid dynamics, aeroacoustics, and rarefied gas dynamics."
Distinguished Professor, Penn State University, 2006.
Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 2005. "For significant contributions in computing and computational methods applied to aerospace applications, and for being founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information, and Communication (JACIC)."
Research Interests
Computational science, fluid/gas dynamics, parallel computing, software engineering, neural networks, robotics, and intelligent systems.