Kursat Kara
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Kursat Kara is the principal investigator of the Kara Aerodynamics ReseArch Laboratory at Oklahoma State University. He teaches Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, Unsteady Aerodynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Quantum Computing. Previously, he was an assistant professor at Khalifa University, where he received the Faculty Excellence Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2015.
Dr. Kara earned his Ph.D. from Old Dominion University. His doctoral dissertation was on hypersonic boundary-layer receptivity to acoustic disturbances over cones. Following graduation, he was a research engineer at New England Analytics LLC, a consulting company for the Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. He then joined the Aerospace Engineering Department at Penn State as a post-doc and worked with Prof. Philip J. Morris on supersonic hot jet simulations for aeroacoustics. Later, he joined the Aerospace Engineering Department at Khalifa University as a founding faculty in 2010. In August 2019, he joined Oklahoma State University.
Dr. Kara is a senior member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the American Physical Society (APS), and the AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Technical Committee.
He served on the following AIAA committees:
AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Technical Committee (APATC) (2012 – 2021)
AIAA APATC Membership Subcommittee (2012 – 2021)
AIAA APATC Education Subcommittee (2012 – 2021)
Supervisors: Dr. P. J. Morris (Penn State), Dr. O. A. Kandil (Old Dominion University), Dr. P. Balakumar (NASA Langley RC), and Dr. M. F. Unal (Istanbul Technical University)
Phone: (405)744-5900
Address: 201 General Academic Building, Stillwater, OK 74078
Kursat Kara is the principal investigator of the Kara Aerodynamics ReseArch Laboratory at Oklahoma State University. He teaches Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, Unsteady Aerodynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Quantum Computing. Previously, he was an assistant professor at Khalifa University, where he received the Faculty Excellence Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2015.
Dr. Kara earned his Ph.D. from Old Dominion University. His doctoral dissertation was on hypersonic boundary-layer receptivity to acoustic disturbances over cones. Following graduation, he was a research engineer at New England Analytics LLC, a consulting company for the Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. He then joined the Aerospace Engineering Department at Penn State as a post-doc and worked with Prof. Philip J. Morris on supersonic hot jet simulations for aeroacoustics. Later, he joined the Aerospace Engineering Department at Khalifa University as a founding faculty in 2010. In August 2019, he joined Oklahoma State University.
Dr. Kara is a senior member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the American Physical Society (APS), and the AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Technical Committee.
He served on the following AIAA committees:
AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Technical Committee (APATC) (2012 – 2021)
AIAA APATC Membership Subcommittee (2012 – 2021)
AIAA APATC Education Subcommittee (2012 – 2021)
Supervisors: Dr. P. J. Morris (Penn State), Dr. O. A. Kandil (Old Dominion University), Dr. P. Balakumar (NASA Langley RC), and Dr. M. F. Unal (Istanbul Technical University)
Phone: (405)744-5900
Address: 201 General Academic Building, Stillwater, OK 74078
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