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Parviz Moin

 
Title:Franklin P. and Caroline M. Johnson Professor in the School of Engineering; Chair, Flow Physics and Computation Division of Mechanical Engineering
Department(s):Mechanical Engineering
Location:Building 500, Room 500C
Mail Code:3035
Phone:650.723.9713       650.725.3525
E-mail: moin@stanford.edu
URL: http://www.stanford.edu/group/fpc/
http://www.stanford.edu/group/ctr/
Administrator: Sara Bedin

Research Statement

Moin's research has focused on the development of advanced numerical tools and computational frameworks to predict the physics of turbulent flows in engineering systems. Through pioneering use of direct and large eddy simulation in complex geometries on massively parallel computers, Professor Moin conducts fundamental research on multiscale, multiphysics turbulence phenomena including shock-turbulence interactions, aerodynamic noise, hydro-acoustics, aero-optics, turbulent combustion, multiphase flows, and optimal control.

Degree Discipline Year School
PhD Mechanical Engineering 1978 Stanford
Publication TitleAuthor(s)/Speaker(s)Open Document
Direct numerical simulation of turbulence in a nominally zero-pressure-gradient flat-plate boundary layer X. Wu and Parviz Moin
Tackling Turbulence With Supercomputers Parviz Moin; J.Kim
Fundamentals of Engineering Numerical Analysis Parviz Moin
Compressibility effects in a turbulent annular mixing layer. Part 1. Turbulence and growth rate J. Freund; S. Lele
Compressibility effects in a turbulent annular mixing layer. Part 2. Mixing of a passive scalar Parviz Moin; J. Freund; S. Lele
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Membership in National Academies

National Academy of Engineering

Academic Honors & Awards

Professor Moin has been awarded NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, the AIAA Lawrence Sperry Award, AIAA Fluid Dynamics Award, the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, the Outstanding Achievement Award of the University of Minnesota, the Humboldt Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany, a Doctores Honoris Causa from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. In 2009, he was recognized by the Chinese Academy of Sciences with an Einstein Professorship. Professor Moin is the recipient of the APS Fluid Dynamics Prize. He is recognized as an ISI highly cited researcher. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and AIAA, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

He is a Co-Editor of the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics and Associated Editor of Physics of Fluids, Journal of Computational Physics, and on the Editorial Board of Turbulent Combustion and the SIAM Journal of Multiscale Modeling and Simulation. He is currently serving on the Naval Research Advisory Committee (NRAC).