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Arnold Polak

Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics.
PhD, 1966, University of Cincinnati

Contact information

Office: 611 Rhodes
Mailing address: P.O. Box 210070, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0070
Phone: (513) 556-3548
Fax: (513) 556-5038
Email: Arnold Polak (at) UC.edu

Interests

High Speed Aerodynamics
Flow Separation
Computational Fluid Dynamics

Recent Publications

Polak A., "Compressible Laminar Boundary-Layer Flow", to appear as an invited contribution (chapter 6) in the textbook THE HANDBOOK OF FLUID DYNAMICS. Reviewed and accepted for publication (1997) by CRC Press.
Safarik, P. and Polak, A., "Optimal Shock Wave Parameters for Supersonic Inlets", Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 12, .Jan. 1996, pp. 202-205.
Polak, A., "Gas Dynamics", Lecture Text, December 1992. Prepared for Fulbright Lecture Series.

mission

UC's Aerospace Engineering program will educate and train students in the contemporary aerospace engineering disciplines of analysis, experimentation, and design through traditional classroom instruction and professional practice embodied in the cooperative education experience.

Credits

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Last Updated Wed, Dec 17, 2003

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