1986 – B.Sc., School of Mechanical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
1990 – M.Sc., School of Mechanical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
1999 – Ph.D., Department of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Research Interests
Energy-related flow control applications, active separation control, dynamic stall control, wake and vortex management; high-lift and high-alpha aerodynamics
Turbo-machinery heat transfer, jet noise, combustion and mixing
Plasma-based control of low speed flows; MEMS-based control of high-speed flows
Experimentation for CFD validation, turbulence modeling
Flow transition and relaminarization
Guest Appointments
2005-2007: Senior Scientist, Hermann Foettinger Institute, Technical University of Berlin
2002-2005: NRC Research Associate, Flow Physics and Control Branch, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton VA, USA
2001-2004: Honorary Research Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand, SA
2000-2002: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Tel Aviv University, Israel
2001-2002: Lecturer, Department of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Tel Aviv University
2000-2001: Senior Research Associate, IIT, Chicago IL, USA
Industrial Experience
1988-1994: Technical Specialist, Aerotek, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa
Membership in Professional Societies
AIAA – Associate Fellow: American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics
APS – American Physical Society
ASME – American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Honors and Awards
2012: First Prize, Renewable Energy Category at the First Israel National Conference for Sustainable Growth
2008: Sanford Kaplan Prize for Creative Management of 21st Century High Technology
2004: NASA AAAC Team Award (CFD Validation Workshop)
2002, 2003, 2004: NRC Associateship Award, NASA Langley Research Center
2001-2004: Honorary Research Fellowship, University of the Witwatersrand, SA
Selected Publications
Seifert, A., Eliahu, S., Greenblatt, D. and Wygnanski, I., “Use of piezoelectric actuators for airfoil separation control,” AIAA Journal, Vol. 36, No. 8, pp. 1535-1537, 1998. https://doi.org/10.2514/2.549.
Greenblatt, D. and Wygnanski, I., “The control of separation by periodic excitation,” Progress in Aerospace Sciences, Volume 36, Issue 7, 2000, pp. 487-545. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0376-0421(00)00008-7.
Greenblatt, D. and Wygnanski, I., “Dynamic stall control by periodic excitation. Part 1: NACA 0015 Parametric Study,” AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 38, No. 3, 2001, pp. 430-438. https://doi.org/10.2514/2.2810.
Greenblatt, D. and Moss, E. A. “Rapid temporal acceleration of a turbulent pipe flow,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 514, 2004, pp. 65-75. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022112004000114.
Greenblatt, D., Paschal, K., Yao, C., Harris, J., “Experimental investigation of separation control Part 2: zero mass-flux oscillatory blowing,” AIAA Journal, Vol. 44, No. 12, 2006, pp. 2831-2845. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.19324.
Greenblatt, D., Schulman, M. and Ben-Harav, A., “Vertical axis wind turbine performance enhancement using plasma actuators,” Renewable Energy, Vol. 37, 2012, pp. 345-354. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2011.06.040.
Greenblatt, D., Schneider, T. and Schüle, C.Y., “Mechanism of flow separation control using Plasma Actuation,” Physics of Fluids, Vol. 24, 077102, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4733399 (26 pages).
Strangfeld, C., Müller-Vahl, H.F., Nayeri, C.N., Paschereit, C.O. and Greenblatt, D., “Airfoil in a high amplitude oscillating stream,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 793, 2016, pp. 79-108. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2016.126.
Greenblatt, D., “Unsteady low-speed wind tunnels,” AIAA Journal, Vol. 54, No. 6, June 2016, pp. 1817-1830. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J054590.
Müller-Vahl, H., Nayeri, C.N., Paschereit, C.O and Greenblatt, D., “Dynamic stall control via adaptive blowing,” Renewable Energy, Vol. 97, 2016, pp. 47-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2016.05.053.
Keisar, D., Freger V. and Greenblatt, D., “Direct wind-powered vertical axis brackish water desalination system,” Desalination, Vol. 570, 2024, pp. 117060-1-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2023.117060.
תחומי מחקר
בקרה אקטיבית של זרימות, בקרת הינתקות סטאטית ודינאמית, אווירודינמיקה של עילוי גבוה וזווית התקפה גבוהה, מעבר חום בטורבו מכונות, שריפה, בקרת מערבולות, ערבוב של זרימות, בקרה באמצעות מרעידי פלזמה.