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World Ranking
455
National Ranking
211

Overview

Tim Colonius is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States and has a research focus primarily in the field of Engineering.

Their work spans various subfields including Computational Mechanics, Aerospace Engineering, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Biomedical Engineering, and Applied Mathematics.

They have contributed extensively to topics such as Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, Aerodynamics and Acoustics in Jet Flows, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics, Model Reduction and Neural Networks, Combustion and Flame Dynamics, Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies, and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

Tim Colonius has published in multiple scientific venues. Notable venues where their work frequently appears include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • AIAA Journal
  • Journal of Computational Physics

Some of their recent papers include the following:

  • Guide to Spectral Proper Orthogonal Decomposition, 2020, AIAA Journal
  • Near-surface dynamics of a gas bubble collapsing above a crevice, 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • On the formation and recurrent shedding of ligaments in droplet aerobreakup, 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • MFC: An open-source high-order multi-component, multi-phase, and multi-scale compressible flow solver, 2020, Computer Physics Communications
  • Ambiguity in mean-flow-based linear analysis, 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Tim Colonius has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Spencer H. Bryngelson
  • Aaron Towne
  • Peter Jordan
  • Liam Heidt
  • Oliver T. Schmidt

Best Publications

  • Modal Analysis of Fluid Flows: An Overview

    Kunihiko Taira;Steven L. Brunton;Scott T. M. Dawson;Clarence W. Rowley

  • Spectral proper orthogonal decomposition and its relationship to dynamic mode decomposition and resolvent analysis

    Aaron Towne;Oliver T. Schmidt;Tim Colonius

  • Model reduction for compressible flows using POD and Galerkin projection

    Clarence W. Rowley;Tim Colonius;Richard M. Murray

  • The immersed boundary method: A projection approach

    Kunihiko Taira;Tim Colonius

  • On self-sustained oscillations in two-dimensional compressible flow over rectangular cavities

    Clarence Worth Rowley;Tim Colonius;Amit J. Basu

  • Computational aeroacoustics: progress on nonlinear problems of sound generation

    Tim Colonius;Sanjiva K. Lele

  • Wave Packets and Turbulent Jet Noise

    Peter Jordan;Tim Colonius

  • Implementation of WENO schemes in compressible multicomponent flow problems

    Eric Johnsen;Tim Colonius

  • Guide to Spectral Proper Orthogonal Decomposition

    Oliver T. Schmidt;Tim Colonius

  • Sound generation in a mixing layer

    Tim Colonius;Sanjiva K. Lele;Parviz Moin

  • Boundary conditions for direct computation of aerodynamic sound generation

    Tim Colonius;Sanjiva K. Lele;Parviz Moin

  • Three-dimensional flows around low-aspect-ratio flat-plate wings at low Reynolds numbers

    Kunihiko Taira;Tim Colonius

  • Wavepackets in the velocity field of turbulent jets

    André V. G. Cavalieri;Daniel Rodríguez;Peter Jordan;Tim Colonius

  • Numerical simulations of non-spherical bubble collapse

    Eric Johnsen;Tim Colonius

  • MODELING ARTIFICIAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS FOR COMPRESSIBLE FLOW

    Tim Colonius

  • Axisymmetric superdirectivity in subsonic jets

    André V. G. Cavalieri;Peter Jordan;Tim Colonius;Yves Gervais

  • Instability waves in a subsonic round jet detected using a near-field phased microphone array

    Takao Suzuki;Tim Colonius

  • Numerical Treatment of Polar Coordinate Singularities

    Kamran Mohseni;Tim Colonius

  • A fast immersed boundary method using a nullspace approach and multi-domain far-field boundary conditions

    Tim Colonius;Kunihiko Taira

  • Three-dimensional instabilities in compressible flow over open cavities

    Guillaume A. Brès;Tim Colonius

  • Spectral analysis of jet turbulence

    Oliver T. Schmidt;Aaron Towne;Georgios Rigas;Tim Colonius

  • Spectral analysis of jet turbulence

    Oliver T. Schmidt;Aaron Towne;Georgios Rigas;Tim Colonius

Frequent Co-Authors

André V. G. Cavalieri
André V. G. Cavalieri Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica
Peter Jordan
Peter Jordan University of Poitiers
Clarence W. Rowley
Clarence W. Rowley Princeton University
Kunihiko Taira
Kunihiko Taira University of California, Los Angeles
Christopher E. Brennen
Christopher E. Brennen California Institute of Technology
Sanjiva K. Lele
Sanjiva K. Lele Stanford University
Gilead Tadmor
Gilead Tadmor Northeastern University
Jeff D. Eldredge
Jeff D. Eldredge University of California, Los Angeles
Jonathan B. Freund
Jonathan B. Freund University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Parviz Moin
Parviz Moin Stanford University

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