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Kenneth G. Powell is the Interim Chair of Aerospace Engineering and Faculty Director of the Center for Advanced Computing at the University of Michigan. He serves as a member and past director of the W. M. Keck Foundation Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, and co-founder/co-director of the Center for Space Environment Modeling and the Center for Radiative Shock Hydrodynamics. His teaching spans undergraduate courses in freshman computing, compressible flow, aerodynamics, and aircraft design, alongside graduate-level instruction in aerodynamics and computational fluid dynamics.
His research focuses on algorithm development for fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, and plasmadynamics, with applications to computational methods in aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, fluid dynamics, and space environment/space weather modeling. He has contributed to journals such as the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and co-authored Multi-Media Fluid Mechanics.
- Awards: NSF Young Investigator Award, Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship (teaching honor).
- Labs & Centers: W. M. Keck Lab, Center for Space Environment Modeling, Center for Radiative Shock Hydrodynamics.
