McNamara, Jack

Biography

Jack J. McNamara is a professor in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at The Ohio State University.  His research interests are broadly in the areas of fluid-structural interactions and model reduction of high-dimensional dynamical systems, with an interconnected goal of improving basic understanding and computational methods.  A core application target is air vehicle operation in high-speed flow regimes, where there is a potential for complex interactions at both the component (fluid-thermal-structural-material) and vehicle (aero-servo-thermo-elastic-propulsive) levels.  Other application areas include fluid-structural centric problems associated with ship airwakes, wind turbines, flapping wing air vehicles, automobiles, and turbomachinery.  He is the director of the Multi-Physics Interactions Research Group (MIRG \murj\) at The Ohio State University.