Gopal Patnaik Mechanical Engineer Center for Reactive Flow and Dynamical Systems Laboratory for Computational Physics & Fluid Dynamics
						Address: Code 6410 Naval Research Laboratory 4555 Overlook Avenue SW Washington DC 20375-5344 Office: Building 97, Room 124 Phone: (202) 767-3531 Fax: (202) 767-4798 E-Mail: patnaik@lcp.nrl.navy.mil Anonymous FTP: ftp://miss-piggy.lcp.nrl.navy.mil

Gopal Patnaik received his B.E. (Honors) in Mechanical Engineering in 1980 from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India and his M.S. (1981) and Ph.D (1986) in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University. He has been involved in the development and application of state-of-the-art computational techniques for low speed reactive flows. During this time, he has developed a new flow solution procedure which has made it possible to investigate a previously intractable class of problems in low speed reacting flows. Also, he was responsible for the development of a detailed time-dependent multi-dimensional flame model used to investigate the structure and dynamics of flames. Dr. Patnaik has utilized parallel computing techniques to study complex three-dimensional flame structure. Dr. Patnaik has published several papers and made numerous presentations on these subjects. He is a member of the Combustion Institute and senior member of AIAA.

Biographical Data

• Vita
• Selected Publications

Research Interests

• Parallel Reactive Flow Solvers
• Flame Structure and Instability