Tim Colonius
Department of Mechanical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125

Tim Colonius is presently an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Caltech. He received his MS and PhD from Stanford in 1994, working with Parviz Moin and Sanjiva K. Lele on Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) methods to study sound generation problems. Before joining Caltech in 1994, he worked briefly at the Corporate Research Center of FMC Corporation, on Computational Fluid Dynamics of industrial flows. Research in his group is directed toward computing and understanding the physics of complex unsteady-flow phenomena. This includes sound generation by turbulence, flow/acoustic resonance, and cavitation. He is also interested in the development of high-order-accurate numerical methods and boundary conditions for compressible flow simulations.