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Jeffrey P. Thomas

Jeffrey P. Thomas

Assistant Research Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
jthomas@duke.edu
Box 90300, Durham, NC 27708-0300
237 Hudson Eng Ctr, Durham, NC

Overview

Dr. Thomas' field of research is computational aeroelasticity. This is the study of fluid and structural interaction. Dr. Thomas develops numerical methods to simulate complex physical phenomena.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Assistant Research Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science · 1996 - Present Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Pratt School of Engineering

Recent Publications

Aeroelastic Flap Free-Play Analysis Using a Harmonic Balance Approach

Conference AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition AIAA Scitech Forum 2025 · January 1, 2025 Aeroelastic limit cycle oscillation results are presented for a three-degree-of-freedom plunge, pitch, and flap structural model with flap free-play in a viscous transonic flow airfoil. A nonlinear frequency domain harmonic balance approach is used for the ... Full text Cite

Stall Flutter of the Benchmark Supercritical Wing Using Aeroelastic Model Reduction and Tunable Turbulence Parameters

Conference AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition AIAA Scitech Forum 2025 · January 1, 2025 This paper investigates the flutter mechanism of the benchmark supercritical wing at Mach 0.8 with the angle-of-attack (AOA) at 1◦, 3◦ and 5◦. Nonlinear unsteady aerodynamic reduced order models (ROMs) are used which are tr ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants

Aerothermoservoelastic interactions in hypersonic control surfaces

ResearchCollaborating Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina State University · 2024 - 2027

Fluid Structural Thermal Interactions (FSTI) in Hypersonic Flow

ResearchCollaborating Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina State University · 2019 - 2023

Data-driven physics-constrained model reduction of the Navier-Stokes equations

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · 2017 - 2020

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Education, Training & Certifications

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor · 1996 Ph.D.
University of Kansas · 1991 M.S.
University of Kansas · 1989 B.S.

External Links

http://www.duke.edu/~jthomas