Tait Pottebaum

Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories
Caltech

Tait Pottebaum earned a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1998. As an undergraduate, he participated in research projects on the aerodynamics of automobiles traveling at close spacing and on the use of trailing edge suction to increase the lift of an airfoil. Tait received a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship from the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research when he began graduate studies at Caltech. In 1999, Tait received his MS in Aeronautics, and he has continued working towards his Ph.D. Tait's research at Caltech has included experiments on starting buoyant plumes and heated cylinder wakes using DPIV and liquid crystal thermometry.

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