University at Buffalo: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

David Forliti, Ph.D.

- Assistant Professor

Office: 326 Jarvis Hall

Telephone: (716)645-2593 x 2321

FAX:(716)645-2883

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Educational Background

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2001

M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Florida State University, 1995.

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 1993

COMPLETE C.V.

Research Area:	-Experimental Fluid Mechanics. -Turbulent Combustion. -Gas Dynamics. -Hydrodynamic Stability. -Multi-phase Flows.
Other:	RESEARCH LAB Class Web Page(s): -MAE338 Fluid and Heat Transfer Laboratory. -EAS204 Thermodynamics 1. Projects: -"Combustion of Methane in Countercurrent Shear Layers", American Chemical Society type G Grant. -"A Fluidic Dump Combustor for Ramjet Engines, " ONR, Young Investigator Award. Seminar(s): -The Control of Turbulent Mixing Using Countercurrent Shear.[PDF]
Selected Papers, Publications, & Presentations:	D.J. FORLITI, B.A. TANG, and P.J. STRYKOWSKI, " An experimental investigation of planar countercurrent turbulent shear layers," J. Fluid Mech., Vol. 530, 2005, pp. 241-264. D.J. FORLITI and P.J. STRYKOWSKI, "Controlling rearward-facing step combustor flows using countercurrent shear," ASME J. Fluids Engineering, Vol. 127, No. 3., 2005, pp. 438-448. D.J. FORLITI, A.A. BEHRENS, and P.J. STRYKOWSKI, "Combustion control in a dump combustor using countercurrent shear," Prroceeding International Colloquium on Combustion and Noise Control, Ed. G. Roy, 12-15 August 2003, Cranfield, England, pp. 140-146. D.J. FORLITI, P.J. STRYKOWSKI and K. DEBATIN, "Bias and precision errors of digital particle image velocimetry," Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 28, No. 5, 2000, pp. 436-447. P.J. STRYKOWSKI, A. KROTHAPALLI and D.J. FORLITI, "Counterflow thrust vectoring of supersonic jets," AIAA Journal, Vol. 34, No. 11, 1996, pp. 2306-2314.