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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Doyle D. Knight

Distinguished Professor

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Location

School of Engineering
98 Brett Road, B244
Piscataway, NJ 08854

Phone

848-445-4464

Email

ddknight@rutgers.edu

Website

http://coewww.rutgers.edu/knight/

Area Of Expertise Computational fluid dynamics, control and flight characteristics of high speed vehicles

Operational Unit Faculty

Research Interests

Development and application of CFD methods for simulation of high speed flows, flow and flight control of high speed vehicles using energy deposition through laser and/or microwave discharge, experimental investigation of shock wave boundary layer interactions, automated optimal aerodynamic design of high speed vehicles and their subsystems including inlets and nozzles, and Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) of high speed vehicles.

Education

•    Ph.D., Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology, 1974
•    M.S., Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology, 1972
•    B.S., California Institute of Technology, 1971
•    B.A., Occidental College, 1971