The MLK Visiting Professor Program has provided meaningful collaboration with outstanding MIT faculty and students during the past year. This program has allowed the time for development of new research initiatives that I will build for years. The opportunity that I have had to be involved in the educational innovations at MIT through teaching and research advising of MIT students has been invaluable. I highly recommend this program.
Background
Stephen M. Ruffin is a professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds a BS in mechanical and aerospace engineering (1985) from Princeton University and an MS in aeronautics and astronautics (1987) from MIT. He earned a PhD in aeronautics and astronautics (1993) from Stanford University.
Interests
His expertise is in high temperature gas dynamics, compressible flow aerodynamics, and airframe propulsion integration. Previously at MIT, he worked as an aerospace scientist at MIT’s Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, where he conducted studies of viscous-inviscid interaction on vortex dominated hypersonic flows over delta wings. This work involved developing an accurate and efficient Navier-Stokes solver for vortex flow analysis.
