Areas of Teaching:
- Numerical Grid Generation
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
Courses Taught:
Undergraduate
- Fluid Mechanics (EM 3313)
- Aerospace Propulsion (ASE 3413)
- Astrodynamics
- Aerothermodynamics (ASE 6313)
Graduate
- Advanced Incompressible Aerodynamics (ASE 6333)
- Incompressible Viscous Laminar Flow (ASE 8343)
- Turbulent Flow (ASE 8353)
- Compressible Viscous Flow (ASE 8363)
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (ASE 8343)
- Numerical Grid Generation (ASE 7993)
Areas of Research:
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Numerical Grid Generation
Funding Agencies:
- NSF Engineering Research Center
- General Motors
- Boeing
- Mobil
- Pratt-Whitney
- US. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station
- Calspan
- TRW
- General Electric
- Lockheed
- Argonne National Laboratory
Books/Book Chapter:
- Thompson, J. F., Soni, B. K., Weatherhill, N. (Eds.) Handbook for Grid Generation, CRC Press, 1999.
- Tucker, A. (Ed.) Handbook for Computer Science and Engineering (Editorial Board, Editor for Computational Science Section), CRC Press, 1997.
- Pilkington, T. C., Loftis, B., Thompson, J. F., Et al. (Eds.) High Performance Computing in Biomedical Research, CRC Press, 1992.
- Sengupta, S., Hauser, J., Eisenman, P. R. Thompson, J. F., (Eds.), Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Fluid Dynamics '88, Pineridge Press, 1988.
- Thompson, J. F., Warsi, Z. U. A., Mastin, C. W., Numerical Grid Generation: Foundations and Applications, North-Holland, 1985. (Available on the Web at www.erc.msstate.edu)
- Thompson, J. F. (Ed.), Numerical Grid Generation, North-Holland, 1982.
Select Journal Publications:
- Thompson, J.F., "Introduction to 'Numerical Solution of the Quasilinear Poisson Equation in a Nonuniform Triangle Mesh'," Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 135, pp. 126-127, 1997.
- Thompson, J.F., "The Experts Have Spoken. Who will Listen?", Computers in Physics, Volume 10, No. 2, p.101, March-April 1996.
- Chrisochodies, N., Fox, G., and Thompson, J. F., "Menus-PGG: A Mapping Environment for Unstructured and Structured Numerical Parallel Grid Generation," Contemporary Mathematics, Volume 10, No. 2, p. 101. March-April 1996.
- Donohoe, J.P., Jiang, M.Y., Thompson, J.F., and Miller, D.B., "Computational Simulation of Electric Fields Surrounding Power Transmission and Distribution Lines," The Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal, Volume 8, No. 2, pp. 4-16, 1993.
Conference Presentations/Proceedings:
- Thompson, J.F.,"Grid Tracks", Computational Aerodynamcis: Past, Present & Future(Honoring the 60th Birthday of Dr. Paul Rubbert), Seattle, WA, September 1997.
- Thompson, J.F., Testimony, "Hearing on the Next Generation Internet Initiative," Before the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC, September 1997.
- Thompson, J.F., "Visualization: A National Perspective," ICASE/LaRC Symposium on Visualizing Time-Varying Data, Williamburg, VA, September 1995.
Honors and Awards:
- Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi.
- Faculty Achievement Award for Service, Mississippi State University, 1996.
- Career Achievement Award, College of Engineering, Mississippi State University, 1993.
- AIAA Aerodynamics Award, 1992.
- Commanders Award for Public Service, Department of the Army, 1992.
- HEADWAE Award from Mississippi Legislature, 1989.
- Outstanding faculty Award, College of Engineering, Mississippi State University, 1998.
- Faculty Achievement Award for Teaching and Research, Mississippi State Univeristy, 1975.
- ASEE Southeastern Research Unit Award for Research, 1975.
Professional Memberships:
- Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics(AIAA), Associate Fellow
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Society for Industrial Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
- IEEE Computer Society
- Mississippi State Academy of Sciences
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