Menon becomes the fourth AE professor to receive the AIAA award
Suresh Menon

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics announced that AE professor Suresh Menon has been named a recipient of the 2023 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Propellants & Combustion Award.

First presented in 1990, the Propellants and Combustion Award is presented to an individual for outstanding technical contributions to aeronautical or astronautical combustion engineering. Menon will officially receive the award during the 2023 AIAA SciTech Forum to be held January 23 – 27, 2023 in National Harbor, Maryland.

The award citation will read, “For distinguished and pioneering contributions to the field of multiscale computational modeling and simulation of turbulent and multiphase combustion in power and propulsion systems.”

“It’s an honor to receive this award. It also acknowledges all the excellent work done by my current and former students at Georgia Tech,” said Menon, Hightower Professor of Engineering. Professor Menon is a world-renowned expert in large-eddy simulation of turbulent reacting and non-reacting flows and has developed unique simulation capabilities to study pollutant formation, ozone depletion in high-altitude aircraft jet plumes and combustion in gas turbine and ramjet engines.

He joins a list of past Georgia Tech professors who’ve received the honor: Tim Lieuwen (2022), Vigor Yang (2009), and Ben T. Zinn (1996).

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