Dr. Scott Post

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Bradley University
College of Engineering & Technology
Mechanical Engineering
Assistant ProfessorAppointed: 2006
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Mailing Address

1501 Bradley Avenue
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Peoria, Illinois 61625
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (309) 677-2738
spost@bradley.edu
http://www.me.mtu.edu/~slpost

Qualifications

Ph.D., Purdue University, Mechanical Engineering, 2001.
B.S., University of Missouri-Columbia, Mechanical Engineering, 1996.

Expertise and Research Interests

Research Interests:
- Collisions and Coalescence of Liquid Drops
- Entrainment of Jets and Sprays
- Spray Modeling
- High Speed Photography
- Drag of Blunt Base Vehicles and Bluff Bodies
- Vortex Lattice Aerodynamic Simulations
- Fuel Injectors
- Alternative Fuels

Other Expertise

Aerodyanmic drag of bluff bodies, such as reusable launch vehicles (X-33) and tractor trailers.

Future Research

High speed flow visualization of liquid drops in turbulent flows.

Industrial Relevance

The collision and coalescence of individual liquid drops is important to fuel sprays in engines and in raindrop growth in clouds.

Base drag is very important in determining the total drag in bluff bodies like tractor-trailer combinations.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Combustion, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Energy Release or Transport, Fluid Dynamics, Internal Combustion Engines, Mechanical Engineering, Microfluidics, Propulsive Flows, Turbulence.

Additional Terms:

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Engine, Spray.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

English: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)
French: (Functional, Functional, Basic)

Memberships

American Society for Engineering Education
American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Bioengineering Division
Combustion Institute
Institute for Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems
Society of Automotive Engineers

Previous Positions

2002-2006, Summer Faculty Fellow, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
2001-2006, Michigan Technological University, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics

Funding Received

  • National Science Foundation (NSF): MRI - Acquisition of high speed imaging system, 149960, Aug 15, 2003 to Aug 14, 2004.
  • California Space Grant Foundation: Computational Analysis of Flow over Ground Research Vehicle (GRV), 7500, 2004 to 2004.

Profile Details

Last Updated: 8/14/2006

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