Paul Durbin
Email: durbin@iastate.edu
Phone: 515-294-7234
Title(s):
Joseph C. and Elizabeth A. Anderlik Professor of Engineering
Office
2237 Howe537 Bissell Rd.
Ames, IA 500111096
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Education
Ph.D., Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, 1979
B.S., Aerospace and Mechanical Science, Princeton University, 1974
Awards and Honors
- Fellow American Physical Society.
- Outstanding research award, ISU Aero Department.
- Distinguished paper award, NASA Lewis Research Center.
Teaching
Undergrad: AerE 311 Compressible Flow, AerE 466 Computational Fluid Dynamics, ME 335 Fluid Mechanics.
Graduate: AerE 541 Incompressible Flow, AerE 546 Computational Fluid Dynamics, AerE 572 Turbulence, AerE 640 Fluid Dynamic Stability.
Research
Interest Areas:
Turbulence
- Closure modeling;
- High fidelity simulation;
- Hybrid modeling;
- Rapid Distortion Theory
Fluid Dynamic Stability and Transition
- Bypass transition;
- High fidelity simulation;
- Predictive modeling
Publications
Selected Publications: (of 190 pubs. including 120 journals, 8 book chapters, 2 books, 60 conf. proceedings; h-index 61)
- Danis, M., Durbin, P.A. (2022) Compressibility Correction to k-ω Models for Hypersonic Turbulent Boundary Layers, AIAA Journal, 60, pp. 6225–6234
- Varghese, J., Durbin, P.A. (2022) Representation of surface roughness in hybrid turbulence simulations, Flow Turbulence and Combustion,109, pp. 255–277
- Biswas, R, Durbin, P.A., Medic, G. (2019). Development of an elliptic blending lag k-ω model, J. Heat Fluid Flow, 76, pp. 26-39.
- Matai, R., Durbin, P.A. (2019). LES of turbulent flow over a parametric set of bumps, Fluid Mech., 866, pp. 503-525.
- Durbin, P.A. (2018). Recent developments in turbulence closure modeling, Rev. Fluid Mech., 50, pp. 77-103.
- Ismail, U., Zaki, T.A., Durbin, P.A. (2018). Simulations of rib-roughened rough-to-smooth turbulent channel flows J. Fluid Mech., 843, pp. 419-449.
- Durbin, P.A. (2017). Perspectives on the phenomenology and modeling of boundary layer transition, Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 99, pp.1-23.
- Bose, R. & Durbin, P.A. (2016). Evidence of helical breakdown in transitional boundary layers Rev. Fluids, 1, p. 073602.
- Yin, Z. & Durbin, P.A. (2016). An Adaptive DES Model that Allows Wall-Resolved Eddy Simulation, J. Heat Fluid Flow, 62, pp. 499-509.
- Rudra Reddy, K. Ryon, J. A. & Durbin, P.A. (2014). A DDES model with a Smagorinsky-type eddy viscosity formulation and log-layer mismatch correction, J. Heat Fluid Flow, 50, pp. 103-113.
- Ge, X. Arolla, S. & Durbin, P.A. (2014). A bypass transition model based on the intermittency function, Flow Turb. & Combustion, 93, pp. 37-61.
- Durbin, P.A. & Pettersen-Reif, (2010). Statistical Theory and Modeling for Turbulent Flows, 2nd, John Wiley, ISBN: 978-0-470-68931-8.
Primary Strategic Research Area
Energy Systems