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Garry Brown

Robert Porter Patterson Professor

Ph.D. University of Oxford (1967)

Fellow of the American Physical Society
Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics


 

Profile

Professor Brown's present research includes experiments in turbulent flows; turbulent flow control using electromagnetic tiles, compressible flow transition, and the fluid mechanics of a radiatively driven hypersonic wind-tunnel (numerical predictions and experiments).

Principal research activities include:
 

  • Electromagnetic Turbulence Control Theory (with Professor D. Nosenchuck)
  • The Princeton Radiatively Driven Hypersonic Wind Tunnel (with Professor R. Miles)
  • Turbulent Reacting Flows at High Speed (with Professors Miles, Smits and Jameson)
  • Compressible Boundary Layer Transition
  • The Incompressible Turbulent Wake


Selected Publications

  1. G.L. Brown, A.P. Ratta, R.W. Anderson, L. Martinelli, W.R. Lempert and R.B. Miles, "Fluid Mechanics in a Radiatively Driven Hypersonic Wind Tunnel - Prediction and Preliminary Experiment," 19th AIAA Aerospace Advanced Measurement and Ground Testing Conference, June 17-20, 1996, New Orleans, LA.
     
  2. G.E. Karniadakis and G.L. Brown, "Vorticity Transport in Modeling Three-Dimensional Unsteady Shear Flows," Phys. Fluids 7, pp. 688-690 (1995).
     
  3. R. Dongsu, G.L. Brown, J.P. Ostriker, and A. Loeb, "Stable and Unstable Accretion Flows with Angular Momentum Near a Point Mass," The Astrophysical Journal 452, pp. 364-378 (1995).
     
  4. R.B. Miles, G.L. Brown, W.R. Lempert, D. Natelson, R. Yetter, J. Guest, G. Williams, and S.M. Bogdonoff, "Radiatively Driven Hypersonic Wind Tunnel," 18th AIAA Aerospace Ground Testing Conference, June 20-23, 1994, Colorado Springs, CO.
     
  5. G.L. Brown and J.M. Lopez, "Axisymmetric Vortex Breakdown, Pt 2, Physical Mechanisms," J. Fluid Mech. 22l, pp. 553-576 (1990).

D222 Engineering Quadrangle

(609) 258-6083

glb@princeton.edu

Professor Garry Brown has achieved the distinction of co--authoring, with Anatoli Roshko,  the most cited paper in the history of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics , a 1974 article which has been cited 1035 times, an average of 33.4 times each year. 
 

Professors Brown & Roshko developed a new apparatus to analyze turbulent mixing between two plane streams of different densities. Their high speed movies were one of the first visualizations of coherent eddy structure that was clear enough to quantify their growth and interaction, an approach to the analysis of turbulence which came to stand alongside the statistical description of earlier workers.