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  • David Forliti, Assistant Professor

  • Education: Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2001
    Office: 326 Furnas Hall
    Phone: (716) 645-1460
    FAX: (716) 645-2883
    E-mail: dforliti .at. eng.buffalo.edu
    Curriculum Vitae: Click for PDF
    Research Interests: Experimental fluid mechanics, turbulent combustion, gas dynamics, hydrodynamic stability, multi-phase flows.

    Current 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.

    Selected Papers, Publications, & Presentations:

    • K.A. Ahmed, D.J. Forliti, J.K. Moody, and R. Yamanaka, "Flow field features of a confined transverse slot jet", AIAA Journal, Vol. 46, No. 1, 2008, pp. 94-103.
    • R.D. Gillgrist, D.J. Forliti, and P.J. Strykowski, "On the mechanisms affecting fluidic thrust vectoring using suction," ASME J. Fluids Engineering, Vol. 129, No. 1, 2007, pp. 91-99.
    • D.J. Forliti, A.A. Behrens, B.A. Tang, and P.J. Strykowski, "Prevaporized JP-10 combustion and the enhanced production of turbulence using countercurrent shear," Roy, G.D., editor, Combustion Processes in Propulsion - Control, Noise, and Pulse Detonation, Chapter 8, Elsevier, 2006, pp. 75-80.
    • A.A. Behrens, M.P. Hallberg, D.J. Forliti, and P.J. Strykowski, "Combustion control of premixed & prevaporized JP-10 in air downstream of a backward-facing step using steady counterflow," Advances in Combustion & Noise Control, Chapter 7, Cranfield University Press, 2005, pp. 99-114.
    • 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.

    Seminars:

    • The Control of Turbulent Mixing Using Countercurrent Shear. (PDF)