UB - University at Buffalo, The State University of New York UB Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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  • John Lordi, Research Professor

  • Education: Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University at Buffalo, 1968
    Office: 317 Jarvis Hall
    Phone: (716) 645-2593 X 2309
    FAX: (716) 645-2883
    E-mail: send email
    Research Interests: Hypersonic, reacting flows; hypervelocity test facilities; gasdynamic heater for the production of high temperature flows.

    Current Projects:

    • Development and demonstration of a rotary mechanical heater to produce high temperature (> 2000 K), chemically pure gas flows. Research includes studies of potential applications, especially the pyrolytic destruction or production of chemicals.
    • Consultant to the CUBRC Center for Transportation Injury Reseach, which has the objective to apply technology to the reduction of deaths and disabilities resulting from motor vehicle accidents.

    Selected Papers, Publications, & Presentations:

    • Eschenroeder, A.Q. and Lordi, J.A. "Catalysis of Recombination in Nonequilibrium Nozzle Flows" Proceedings of the Ninth Symposium (International) on Combustion, Academic Press, New York 1963 pp. 241-256. Also Caispan Report AD-1689-A-1.
    • Lordi, J.A. and Mates, R.E. "Nonequilibrium Effects on High-Enthalpy Expansion of Air" AIAA Journal Vol.3 No. 10 pp.1972-1974 October 1965.
    • Lordi, J.A. and Mates, R.E. "Rotational Relaxation in Nonpolar Diatomic Gases" Phys. Fluids Vol.13 No.2 pp.291-308 February 1970.
    • Dunn, M.G. and Lordi, J.A. "Measurement of Electron Temperature and Number Density in Shock-Tunnel Flows" Part I: Development of Free-Molecular Langmuir Probes AIAA J. Vol.7 No.8 pp.1458-1645 August 1969.
    • Dunn, M.G., and Lordi, J.A. "Measurement of Electron Temperature and Number Density in Shock-Tunnel Flows" Part II: NO++ e~Dissociative Recombination Rate in Air AIAA J. Vol.7 No.1 pp. 2099-2104 November 1969.
    • Lordi, J.A. "Noise Generation by a Rotating Blade Row in an Infinite Annulus" AIAA Paper No.71-617 Paper presented at the AIAA 4th Fluid and Plasma Dynamics Conference Palo Alto, California 21-23 June 1971.
    • Lordi, J.A., Vidal, R.J., and Johnson, C.B. (NASA/Langley) "Chemical Nonequilibrium Effects on the Flow in the Windward Plane of Symmetry of a Blunted Delta Orbiter" Paper presented at the NASA Space Shuttle Technology Conference NASA Ames Research Ce nter Moffett Field, California 15-16 December 1971. Published as NASA TN D-7189 March 1973.
    • Lordi, J.A., Falk, T.J., Rich, J.W. "Analytical Studies of the Kinetics of Electrically Excited, Continuously Operating CO Flow Lasers" AIAA Paper No.74-563 Paper presented at the AlAA 7th Fluid and Plasma Dynamics Conference, Palo Alto, California 17 -19 June 1974.
    • Rich, J.W., Bergman, R.C., Thompson, H.M., and Lordi, J.A. "Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of the Electrically Excited, Supersonic Flow Carbon Monoxide Laser" AIAA Paper No.74-179 Paper presented at the AIAA 12th Aerospace Sciences Meeting , Washington, D.C. 30 January -l February 1974 Also AlAA J. Vol.13 No.1 pp. 95-101 January 1975.
    • Lordi, J.A., and Homicz, G.F. "Linearized Analysis of the Three-Dimensional, Compressible Flow Through a Rotating Annular Blade Row" Journal of Fluid Mechanics Vol.103 pp.413-442 1981.
    • Homicz, G.F. and Lordi, J.A. "Three-Dimensional Lifting-Surface Theory for the Steady Loading on an Annular Blade Row" AIAA J. Vol.10 No. 4 p. 492 April 1981.
    • Lordi, J.A., Boyer, D.W., Dunn, M.G., Smolarek, K.K., and Wittliff, C.E. "Description of Nonequilibrium Effects on Simulation of Flows About Hypersonic Vehicles" AlAA Paper No.88-0476 Paper presented at AIAA 26th Aerospace Sciences Meeting Reno, NV 11 -14 January 1988.
    • Furlani, T.R. and Lordi, J.A. "Implementation of the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Method for Modeling Exhaust Plume Flowfields in a Parallel Architecture" Computers and Fluids, 18, 217 1990.
    • Furlani, T.R., and Lordi, J.A. "A Comparison of Parallel Algorithms for the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Method: Application to Exhaust Plume Flowfields" Proceedings of the Sixteenth Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, P. Muntz, Ed. (AlAA published N ew York) Vol.118, pp 227-244 1988.
    • Furlani, T.R., and Lordi, J.A. "A Comparison of Parallel Algorithms for the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Method: II Application to Exhaust Plume Flowfields, Paper presented at the AIAA 24th Thermophysics Conference, AlAA-89-1667, Buffalo, NY (1989).
    • Dunn, M.G., Lordi, J.A., Wittliff; C.E., and Holden, M.S. "Facility Requirements for Hypersonic Propulsion System Testing," Reprinted from High-Speed Flight Propulsion Systems, edited by S.N.B. Murthy and E.T. Curran, Vol.137 of Progress in Astronauti cs and Aeronautics, AIAA, Washington, DC ISBN 1-56347-01 l-X, 1991.
    • Lordi, J.A., DeLeon, R.L., Bergman, R.C., Boyer, D.W., Drzewiecki, R.F., Furlani, T., and Wurster, W.H. "Development of a New Facility for the Study of Low-Density Chemically Reacting Hypersonic Flows," AIAA Paper 92-3973 1992.