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311D Walker Engineering Building
Mississippi State, MS 39762
Phone: 662.325.8298
Email: dhb1@ae.msstate.edu


David H. Bridges received his Ph.D. in Aeronautics from California Institute of Technology in 1993 and joined the Aerospace Engineering faculty at Mississippi State University in the same year.

• Fluid Mechanics
• Aerodynamics
• Vibrations
• Aircraft Performance
• Engineering Mechanics

• Stability and Transition
• Separated Flows
• Vortex Dynamics
• Submarine Hydrodynamics
• Cavity Flows

• Hearin Foundation/MSU College of Engineering
• Office of Naval Research
• Honda R&D Co., Ltd.
• Mississippi State University Research Initiation Grant

• Bridges, D. H., Blanton, J. N., Brewer, W. B., and Park, J. T., "Experimental Investigation of the Flow Past a Submarine at Angle of Drift," AIAA Journal, Vol. 41, No. 1 (January 2003), pp. 71-81.
• Bridges, D. H. and Hornung, H. G., 1994, "Elliptic Tip Effects on the Vortex Wake of an Axisymmetric Body at Incidence", AIAA Journal, Vol. 32, pp. 1437-1445.
• Koenig, K., Bridges, D., and Chapman, G. T., 1989, "Transonic Flow Modes of an Axisymmetric Blunt Body," AIAA Journal, Vol. 27, pp. 1301- 1302.

• Bridges, D.H. and Hornung, H.G., 1993, "Elliptic Cross Section Tip Effects on the Vortex Wake of an Axisymmetric Body at Angle of Attack," AIAA 24th Fluid Dynamics Meeting, 6-9 July 1993, AIAA Paper No. 93-2960.
• Bridges, D.H. and Hornung, H.G., 1992, "Effects of Tip Reynolds Number and Tip geometry on the Vertex Wake of an Axisymmetric Body at Angle of Attack", AIAA 30th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, 6-9 January 1992, AIAA Paper No. 92-0406.
• Donnelly, M. and Bridges, D. H., "Data Analysis of LCC Crashback Experiment," presented at the NAVSEA-NSWCCD Submarine Crashback Workshop, Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, West Bethesda, MD, 28 August 2001

• Tau Beta Pi
• Sigma Gamma Tau
• ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow, NASA Langley Research Center, 1994

• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Senior Member