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Faculty Profile

Narayanan M. Komerath

Professor

Office: Guggenheim 353
Phone: 404.894.3017
narayanan.komerath@aerospace.gatech.edu
http://www.ae.gatech.edu/~nkomerat/

Education

B.Tech, Aeronautical Engineering, 1978, Indian Institute of Technology
M.S., Aerospace Engineering (Propulsion), 1979, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering (Turbulent Combustion), 1982, Georgia Institute of Technology

Biography

Dr. Komerath has 3 US Patents and over 250 publications, and guided 15 PhDs, of whom 3 have won GIT’s Outstanding PhD Thesis (top 1%) Award. He has guided over 120 undergraduates and 50+ MS candidates in research projects, and served as project director for over 100 externally sponsored projects. He has served as Fellow of the NASA Institute of Advanced Concepts, Boeing A.D. Welliver Faculty Fellow, Sam Nunn Senior Security Fellow and Hesburgh Teaching Fellow, and as 2008-09 Chair of the Aerospace Division of the American Society for Engineering Education. He is a member of the AIAA Economics Technical Committee, the American Helicopter Society’s Aerodynamics Technical Committee, and the ASEE’s Aerospace Engineering and Energy Conservation and Conversion Division executive committees.

Research

Experimental Aerodynamics, Micro Renewable Energy Systems, Advanced Concepts.

Honors and Distinctions

Associate Fellow of the AIAA

Fellow of the NASA Institute of Advanced Concepts

Boeing A.D. Welliver Summer Faculty Fellowship in 2004

Senior Sam Nunn Security Fellow in the School of International Affairs, 2004-06

Hesburgh Teaching Fellow at Georgia Tech, 2005

Most Valuable Professor in Aerospace Engineering, 1991

Leadership Award for Development of Graduate Research Assistants 1993

Sigma Xi 1993-94 Faculty Best Paper Award

Georgia Tech Award for Outstanding Ph.D.Thesis Advisor for the period 1992-97

Chair of the Aerospace Division of the American Society for Engineering Education

Selected Publications

Komerath, N.M., Smith, M.J., “Rotorcraft Wake Modeling: Past, Present and Future”. Proceedings of the European Rotorcraft Forum, Hamburg, Germany, Setpember 2009.

Komerath, N., “A Campus-Wide Course on Micro Renewable Energy Systems”. Proceedings of the ASEE National Conference, College Park, TX June 2009.

Komerath, N., Venkat, V., Fernandez, J., “Near-Millimeter Wave Issues for a Space Power Grid”. Paper 2009-081, Proceedings of the SPESIF Conference, American Physical Society, Huntsville, AL, February 2009.

Komerath, N.M., Nally, J., Tang, E.Z., “Policy Model for Space Economy Infrastructure” Acta Astronautica, Vol. 61(2007)11-12, p. 1066-1075

Gregory, J., Sullivan J., Wanis, S., Komerath, N., “Pressure-sensitive paint as a distributed optical microphone array,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119(1), 251-261, 2006