Mitsuru Kurosaka
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
University of Washington
Seattle, WA.

Mitsuru Kurosaka is a professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. He received BS and MS from the University of Tokyo, and Ph.D. in ME from Cal Tech in 1968; his thesis supervisor was W. Duncan Rannie. After graduation from Cal Tech, he worked at AiResearch Manufacturing Co. and General Electric Research and Development Center before joining UTSI as a faculty member. From 1984-85, he was a visiting professor at MIT and in 1987, he moved to the present position. A fellow of ASME, his research experience includes aeroacoustics, compressor flutter, Ranque-Hilsh effect, energy separation in shear flows, and vortical flows.