Dr. Kevin W. Cassel

Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Fluid Dynamics Research Center
Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering Department
Illinois Institute of Technology
10 W. 32nd St.
Chicago, IL 60616

Phone: (312) 567-5939
Fax: (312) 567-3173

email: cassel@iit.edu

Courses:

• MMAE 100 - Introduction to the Professions (Link to Blackboard site)

• MMAE 320 - Thermodynamics (Link to Blackboard site)

• MMAE 321 - Applied Thermodynamics

• MMAE 310 - Fluid Mechanics (Link to Blackboard site)

• MMAE 311 - Compressible Flow

• MMAE 350 - Computational Mechanics

• MMAE 501/504 - Engineeering Analysis Ia and Ib (Link to Blackboard site)

• MMAE 508 - Perturbation Methods (Link to Blackboard site)

• MMAE 510 - Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics

• MMAE 517 - Computational Fluid Dynamics (Link to Blackboard site)

Research Projects:

• Energy Absorber Research for the MuCool Experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

• Reynolds Number Regimes in Unsteady Boundary-Layer Separation.

• The Influence of a Moving Wall on Unsteady Separation and Dynamic-Stall Vortex Detachment.

• Vortex-Induced Mixed-Convection Boundary-Layer Separation.

• The Effect of Viscous-Inviscid Interaction on Unsteady Boundary-Layer Separation.

• Supersonic Flow over a Compression Ramp.

• The Influence of Wall Cooling on Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Separation and Stability.

Research Themes:

• Unsteady Separation.

• Supersonic and Hypersonic Triple Deck Flows.