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D. D. Seath, Ph.D.
Professor and A.E. Undergraduate Advisor
Education: Ph.D. Iowa State University, 1963
~ M.S.A.E. Iowa State University, 1959 ~ B.S.A.E. Iowa State University,
1954
Areas of Expertise: Low-speed aerodynamic analysis
and wind tunnel testing, stability and control and performance analysis
of flight vehicles, wing (and body) vortex interaction effects,
conceptual aircraft design, and wind energy conversion systems rotor
analysis and testing.
Background: Dr. Seath has had industrial experience
at General Dynamics (1963-1965) in low-speed vortex lift analysis
of low-aspect-ratio wings and conformal transformation of arbitrary
airfoils. He was also involved in development of a mesh geometry
for finite difference analysis of flows about airfoils. He served
in the United States Air Force as a Jet Fighter Pilot (1954-1957).
He was an Instructor in Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University
(1959-1963). He joined UT Arlington in 1965. He has teaching experience
in aerodynamics of wings and bodies, flight mechanics, potential
flow analysis, fluid mechanics, wind tunnel testing, astronautics,
hydronautics, nuclear reactor design, aerospace vehicle design,
engineering mechanics-statics and dynamics. He did consulting work
in anemometer calibration (Ceramic Cooling Tower Company), airspeed
system calibration (STOL Aircraft Company), performance prediction
for high lift on aircraft (Wren Aircraft Company), prediction of
low-speed aerodynamic characteristics of hypersonic vehicles (USAF
Flight Dynamics Lab), and wind tunnel tests of pedestal mounted
heliostats (Northrup Incorporated). Also, consulting work was done
on the analysis of wind energy conversion systems (Standard Manufacturing
and STL Corp.), axial flow fan design (Behlen Corporation), analysis
of an aircraft onboard aerodynamic measurement system (Precision
Aerodynamics), wind tunnel testing and analysis of broadcast tower
pod configurations (Landmark Tower Corp.), and wind tunnel testing
and analysis of flying disks (Glaser, Griggs, & Schwartz).
E-mail: seath@uta.edu
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