Philip L. Varghese
Professor and Chair
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Stanley P. Finch Centennial Professor in Engineering
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Phone: (512) 471-3110
Fax: (512) 471-3788
Email: varghese@mail.utexas.edu
Dr. Varghese's Web site
Dr. Philip Varghese earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University in 1983. He joined the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin that same year. He directs the Center for Aeromechanics Research. He was awarded a Fulbright Grant in 1993 to apply laser diagnostics to hypersonic wind tunnels in France.
Dr. Varghese's research focuses on understanding the basic molecular processes occurring in high speed and high temperature flows. This is an inter-disciplinary field, requiring a synthesis of physics and chemistry with the more traditional engineering disciplines of fluid mechanics, heat transfer and thermodynamics. Varghese applies his work to the study of combustion, pollution, plasmas and hypersonic flow (which is at least five times faster than sound). Varghese has established a laser diagnostics laboratory for experimental studies in combustion.
Research Interests:
- Laser-based sensors
- Optimal modeling of non-equilibrium flows
- Fluid mechanics
- Combustion