Research Professor
Syracuse University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Professor Lewalle is multidisciplinary by training: BS in Engineering Physics, PhD in Aerospace Engineering, post-doc in Chemical Engineering, faculty in Mechanical Engineering. For over 25 years, he has developed a specialty in the use of continuous wavelets, applying them to the mathematical physics of turbulence and to the analysis of experimental data in areas as diverse as jet noise, nerve response, characterization of non-woven materials such as paper, turbulent coherent structures and swirl-stabilized combustion. This distinctive approach earned him the 2004 Lewis F. Moody Award of ASME/Fluids Engineering Division. He has taught more than 20 different courses in the areas of fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, elementary mechanics, and acoustics, earning three departmental Awards for Excellence in Education. Prof. Lewalle retired from teaching in 2017, and devotes his efforts to a few open-ended projects, namely:
Kan, P., Ruscher, C.J, Lewalle, J. and Gogineni, S., Near-field shock/shear-layer interactions in simulated three-stream supersonic rectangular jet, AIAA Journal 56, 1031-1046, 2017
Lewalle, J., Low, K.R. and Glauser, M.N., Properties of individual jet noise sources identified from far-field pressure data, Int. J. Aeroacoustics, 11, 651-674, 2012.
Lewalle, J., A filtering and wavelet formulation for incompressible turbulence, J. Turbulence 1, 004, 1-16, 2000.
Lewalle, J., Hamiltonian formulation for the diffusion equation, Phys. Rev. E 55, 1590-1599, 1997.
