- Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0503
Alexandre Martin
University of Kentucky, Mechanical Engineering, Faculty Member
- École Polytechnique de Montréal, Génie Mécanique, AlumnusUniversité de Montréal, Physics, AlumnusUniversity of Michigan, Aerospace Engineering, Post-Docadd
- Aerospace Engineering, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Parallel Computing, Thermodynamics, Plasma Physics, and 11 moreHeat Transfer, Statistical Mechanics, Parallel Programming, Radiation Physics, High Speed Aerodynamics, Fluid structure interaction, Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, Hypersonics, Boundary Layers, Reactive Flow, and Physicsedit
- Dr. Alexandre Martin has worked in the field of fluid-solid interactions for the last 14 years. He has contributed to... moreDr. Alexandre Martin has worked in the field of fluid-solid interactions for the
last 14 years. He has contributed to various scientific fields ranging from hypersonic aerothermodynamics, plasma physics, numerical algorithmic and mining ventilation. He is especially interested in ablation, the removal of solid material from a surface by thermal processes. Over the years of his scientific career, he has developed and supervised computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer codes that were able to model various types of ablation. During his graduate studies, his work focused on the ablation caused by the radiation from an electric arc. He now focuses his work on ablation of the heat-shields of atmosphere re-entry vehicles, mostly as part of a NASA funded projects. He is an active participant in the aerothermodynamics and ablation community: he was also the Technical Chair of the last two Ablation Workshops, and has been a member of the scientific committee that produces the Ablation Test-Cases every year. Since at the University of Kentucky, he has secured funding for ablation research that amounts to approximately $1.8 million, mostly as PI. These include multi-university efforts, and collaboration with industry. Over the course of his academic career, he has supervised more than 40 students at various levels. Dr. Martin has published more than 50 peer-reviewed archival journal and conference papers, and is regularly invited to give presentations on ablation.edit
