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Dr Todd Lowe

Associate Professor,
Virginia Tech

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Todd Lowe leads a research team focused on experimental aerodynamics and aeroacoustics, often addressing applications on propulsion inlets and exhausts. His fundamental contributions have provided insights for understanding turbulence transport and noise in turbulent shear flows, such as the role of large-scale turbulence in supersonic jet noise. His instrumentation research has resulted in several notable impacts, including 250 kHz planar vector velocimetry and methods for quantitative flow imaging without particles. He is co-inventor of four US utility patents and has co-authored more than 130 publications in the areas of advanced diagnostics for fluid dynamics, turbulent shear flow and jet noise physics, propulsion and power, and signal processing. Since 2007, he has been the P.I. or co-P.I. of several research contracts and awards from government and industry sponsors including the Office of Naval Research, NASA, US Air Force, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce, GE and several small businesses. His experiences with small business and industry lend perspective for contemporary relevance in the classroom, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in propulsion and fluid dynamics. He is the Co-Director of the Advanced Propulsion and Power Laboratory at Virginia Tech (https://www.aoe.vt.edu/research/multidisciplinary-centers-labs/appl.html), the Director of the Pratt & Whitney/Virginia Tech Center of Excellence, a founding member of the Rolls-Royce University Technology Center at Virginia Tech, and Chair of the AIAA Aerodynamic Measurement Technology Technical Committee.

Industry
(linked to AIAA member record)

  • Education (includes University Research Labs)

Education

Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Ph.D., 2006
Aerospace Engineering
2001 To 2006

Industry

  • Education (includes University Research Labs)

Professional Interest

  • Aeroacoustics
  • Aerodynamic Measurement Technology
  • Fluid Dynamics

University

  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

Professional Interests
(linked to AIAA member record)

  • Aeroacoustics
  • Aerodynamic Measurement Technology
  • Fluid Dynamics