Dr. Paul Cizmas
Research interests
- Gas turbine combustion
- Gas dynamics and propulsion
- Chemical kinetics
- Rocket propellants
- Optical diagnostics and spectroscopy
Dr. Paul Cizmas is a professor of aerospace engineering. Before joining Texas A&M, he worked for Westinghouse Science and Technology Center in Pittsburgh, Pa. While at Westinghouse, Cizmas was responsible for the development of computational fluid dynamic analysis for turbomachinery. His work concentrated on unsteady flows in turbomachinery using both time-linearization and time-marching methods. Cizmas carried this on at Texas A&M, and developed the CoRSI code for simulation of in situ reheat in turbines and analysis of turbine-combustors, the UNS3D general computational fluid dynamics code, the UNS3D-AE code for high-fidelity aerolastic analysis, and the UNS3D-POD proper orthogonal decomposition-based reduced-order model for turbomachinery flows.
Phone: (979) 845-5952
Email: [email protected]
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Duke University – 1995
- Dipl.-Ing., Polytechnic Institute, Bucharest – 1984
Awards & Honors
- Boeing Research and Technology Performance and Innovation Award, 2018
- ASME Structures and Dynamics Committee 2011 Best Paper Award
- Herbert H. Richardson Faculty Fellow Award, Texas A&M University, 2009
- E. D. Brockett Professorship Award, Texas A&M University, 2008
- Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Select Young Faculty, 2004
- Westinghouse Science and Technology 1997 Technical Publication Award
- ASME Liquid Propulsion 1995 Best Paper Award
- Fellow, ASME; Associate Fellow AIAA
Selected Publications
- A. E. Ream, J. C. Slattery and P. G. A. Cizmas, “A method for generating reduced-order combustion mechanisms that satisfy the differential entropy inequality,” Physics of Fluids, 30, 4, 043601-1–17 (2018)
- J. C. Slattery and P. G. A. Cizmas, “Macro-scale fatigue fracture analysis of multiphase bodies, aircraft design, and catastrophic failure: Two aircraft accidents,” Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 199, 274–279 (2018)
- S. Johnson, F. L. Carpenter, O. K. Rediniotis and P. G. A. Cizmas, “Experimental Validation of a Pulse Modulated Flow Control Actuator for Turbomachinery,” Journal of Propulsion and Power, 33, 1358–1368 (2017)
- S. R. Reddy, B. A. Freno, P. G. A. Cizmas, S. Gokaltun, D. McDaniel, G. S. Dulikravich, “Constrained reduced-order models based on proper orthogonal decomposition,” Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg., 321, 18–34 (2017)
- J. C. Slattery and P. G. A. Cizmas, “Macro-Scale Fracture Analysis of Isothermal Composites: Theory and Seven Applications,” Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 163, 366–380 (2016)