Dr. Joseph Oefelein

Biography

Joseph Oefelein is a professor and associate chair of undergraduate programs at the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He joined the faculty at Georgia Tech in fall 2017 after a 17-year career at Sandia National Laboratories in the Combustion Research Facility, where he served as a distinguished member of the technical staff. Before that, he was a research associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. His research spans a broad range of topics related to simulation and modeling of advanced propulsion and power systems. He possesses expertise in the interdisciplinary field of complex fluid flows and turbulence, focusing on how these interact with various thermodynamic, transport, and chemical processes. Oefelein is an expert in supercritical fluid phenomena, with extensive experience in developing and applying Large Eddy Simulation (LES) techniques and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). He is actively engaged with several professional societies, including the Combustion Institute and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Propulsion and Power and is a member of the editorial board for the Proceedings of the Combustion Institute.

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