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Sonya Smith, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Phone: (202) 806-4837
Email: ssmith@howard.edu
Research Topics
Aerodynamics, Dynamics of Atmospheric Motion, Numerical and Analytical Methods for Turbulent Flow.
Summary of Recent Research
Dr. Sonya T. Smith's research activities span the areas of theoretical and computational fluid dynamics applied to aerodynamics and atmospheric science. She has research grants from NASA and DOD to study airframe noise reduction, wake-vortex/aircraft encounters, gravity wave dynamics in the middle atmosphere, and the development of new subgrid-scale turbulence models for large-eddy simulations on parallel computers. Dr. Smith is a guest researcher at the Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Maryland and has been a visiting research scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder Colorado as well as the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Additionally she has research collaborations scientists at the Navel Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center(GSFC) in Greenbelt, Maryland. Dr. Smith is also one of nine principal investigators in the Center for the study of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Atmospheres(CSTEA) at Howard University and one of three principal investigators in the Howard University/Army High Performance Computing Research Center.(HU-AHPCRC).
Recent Publications
Pete, K., D., Vicroy, S. Smith. "Characterization of the wake-vortex encounter hazzard for a B737-100 airplane." (in preparation)
Smith, S., K. Santy-Ateyaba. " Consolidated diagram expansions for subgrid-scale closures in large-eddy simulations." (in preparation)
Grant, J., A. Thorpe, C. James, A. Michael, M. Ware, F. Senfle, S. Smith. ``Gas dynamics, characterization and calibration of fast flow flight cascade impactor quartz crystal microbalances (QCM) for aerosol measurements.'' Proceedings of the NASA University Research Center (URC) Conference, Volume I. M. Jamshidi et. al. editors. University of New Mexico Press, 1997.
Smith, S. and H. Haj-Hariri "Nonlinear interactions of Gortler vortices and Tollmien-Schlichting Waves in compressible boundary layers." submitted to Physics of Fluids, 1997.
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