At A Glance
Dr. Thomas L. Jackson is a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets (CSAR), a Computational Science and Engineering Affiliate (CSE), and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering (AE), all at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Mathematics Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1985 after which he joined the staff of the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE) where he had previously been a Graduate Research Assistant. In 1987 he became an Assistant, then (in 1992) an Associate, Professor at Old Dominion University in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. In 1993 he moved back to ICASE for five years before moving to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he now works. He has co-edited two books, co-authored a textbook on hydrodynamic stability, and authored or co-authored more than 120 papers. He is currently a member of the Combustion Institute, and an Associate Fellow of AIAA. He has been a paper and grant referee for many organizations and journals, and is currently an Associate Editor for AIAA Journal. His expertise is in the area of combustion, and the large-scale simulation thereof, and in combustion stability.
Current Research Interests
Current research efforts at CSAR include the development of ROCFIRE, a fully three-dimensional code that examines the burning characteristics of heterogeneous solid propellants.
Vitae (download current vitae in pdf format)
E-Mail: tlj@csar.uiuc.edu
Senior Research Scientist, Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets