David
Greenblatt
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DK, 325
Head of The Flow Control Lab
Education
- 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.
- Greenblatt, D and Williams, D.R., “Flow Control for Unmanned Air Vehicles,” Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 54, 2022, pp. 383-412. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-032221-105053.
- Garzozi, A. and Greenblatt, D., “Wind Energy Generation by Forced Vortex Shedding,” Applied Energy, Vol. 349, 2023, pp. 121583-1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.121583.
- 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.
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