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Adrian Sescu, Ph.D.

Adrian Sescu

Associate Professor

Office: 314D Walker Engineering Building
sescu@ae.msstate.edu
P 662.325.2911

Education

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, 2011.
M.S., Aerospace Engineering, 2005.
B.S., Aerospace Engineering, 2004.

Adrian received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Toledo, OH, and his B.S. and M.S. in aerospace engineering from Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania. Before joining the Department of Aerospace Engineering @ MSU in August 2012, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University, MD. Since he became a faculty member of the Department of Aerospace Engineering @ MSU, he participated in several external programs as fellow or visiting scholar, such as three summers at Air Force Research Lab, and one summer at the Center for Turbulence Research Summer Program, Stanford University. He is currently the director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Aerospace Engineering.

Research Areas

  • Receptivity and transition in boundary layers
  • Boundary layer control
  • Theoretical and Computational Aeroacoustics
  • Turbulence in fluids

Teaching Areas

  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Aerodynamics
  • Aeroacoustics
  • Turbulent Flows

Taught Courses

Undergraduate Courses
  • EM 3313 Fluid Mechanics
  • ASE 3313 Incompress Aerodynam
Graduate Courses
  • ASE 6990 Introduction to Aeroacoustics
  • ASE 8343 Incompressible Vis Laminar Flow
  • ASE 8353 Turbulent Flow

Select Journal Publications

  • Sescu, A. and Afsar, M. (2018) Hampering Gortler vortices via optimal control in the framework of nonlinear boundary region equations, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 848, pp. 5-41.
  • Sawaya. J., Yassir, S., Sassanis, V. and Sescu, A. and Visbal M. (2018) Assessment of the impact of two-dimensional wall deformations’ shape on high-speed boundary layer disturbances, AIAA Journal, DOI: 10.2514/1.J057045.
  • Haywood, J. and Sescu, A. (2018) A Control Forced Concurrent Precursor Method for LES Inflow, Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, doi.org/10.1007/s10494-018-9986-3.
  • Sescu, A., Alaziz, R. and Afsar, M.Z. (2018) Effect of Wall Transpiration and Heat Transfer on Nonlinear Gortler Vortices in High-speed Boundary Layers, AIAA Journal, in press.
  • Adkins, K. and Sescu, A. (2018) Analysis of near-surface relative humidity in a wind turbine array boundary layer using an instrumented unmanned aerial system and large-eddy simulation, Wind Energy, Vol. 21, pp. 1155-1168.
  • Adkins, K. and Sescu, A. (2017) Observations of relative humidity in the near-wake of a wind turbine using an instrumented unmanned aerial system, International Journal of Green Energy, Vol. 14, pp. 854-860.
  • Sescu, A., Taoudi, L. and Afsar, M. (2017) Iterative control of Gortler vortices via local wall deformations, Theoretical and Computational Fluids Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s00162-017-0440-2.
  • Zhang, L., Laramee, R.S., Thompson, D., Sescu, A. and Chen, G. (2017) Compute and Visualize Discontinuity Among Neighboring Integral Curves of 2D Vector Fields, Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization IV: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (ISBN 978-3-319-44682-0), pp. 187-204, H. Carr, C. Garth, and T. Weinkauf, eds, Springer (book chapter).
  • Sassanis, V., Sescu, A., Collins, E.M., Harris, R. and Luke, A.E. (2017) A Hybrid Approach for Nonlinear Computational Aeroacoustics Predictions, International Journal for Computational Fluid Dynamics, Vol. 31, pp. 1-20.
  • Goldstein, M., Sescu, A., Duck, P. and Choudhari, M. (2016) Nonlinear wakes behind a row of elongated roughness elements, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 796, pp. 516-557.
  • Harris, R., Collins, E.M., Luke, A.E., Sescu, A., Strutzenberg, L.L. and West, J.S. (2016) Coupled Overset Unstructured Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Launch Environment Acoustics Prediction, AIAA Journal, Vol. 54, pp. 1932-1952.
  • Sescu, A. and Thompson, D. (2015) "On the Excitation of Gortler Vortices by Distributed Roughness Elements", Theoretical and Computational Fluids Dynamics, DOI-10.1007/s00162-015-0340-2 , 2015.
  • Sescu, A. (2015) "Numerical Anisotropy in Finite Differencing" (review article), Advances in Difference Equations, DOI: 10.1186/s13662-014-0343-0 .
  • Sescu, A. and Meneveau, C. (2015) Large Eddy Simulation and single column modeling of thermally-stratified wind-turbine arrays for fully developed, stationary atmospheric conditions, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Vol. 32, pp. 1144-1162.
  • Sescu, A. and Meneveau, C. (2014) "A control algorithm for statistically stationary Large Eddy Simulations of thermally stratified boundary layers",Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Vol. 140, pp. 2017-2020.
  • Sescu, A. and Hixon, R. (2014) "Numerical anisotropy study of a class of compact schemes", Journal of Scientific Computing, Vol. 61, pp. 327-342, 2014.
  • Goldstein, M., Sescu, A. and Afsar, M. (2012) "Effect of Non-parallel MeanFlow on the Green’s Function for Predicting the Low Frequency Sound fromTurbulent Air Jets", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 695, pp. 199-234.
  • Goldstein, M., Sescu, A., Duck, P. and Choudhari, M. (2011) Algebraic/transcendental Disturbance Growth behind a Row of Roughness Elements, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 668, pp. 236-266.
  • Goldstein, M., Sescu, A., Duck, P. and Choudhari, M. (2010) The Long Range Persistence of Wakes behind a Row of Roughness Elements, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 644, pp. 123-163.

Select Conference Proceedings

  • Sescu, A., Alaziz, R. and Afsar, M. (2018) Control of Görtler Vortices in High-speed Boundary Layers, AIAA Paper 2018-1078, AIAA Scitech Forum, Kissimmee, FL.
  • Haywood, J.S., Sescu, A., Bhushan, S., Foster, J. and Farthing, M. (2018) Towards a More Realistic Triple Hill's Vortex Synthetic Method for LES of Wall Bounded Flows, AIAA Paper 2018-0837, AIAA Scitech Forum, Kissimmee, FL.
  • Blake, J., Sescu, A., Thompson, D. and Hattori, Y. (2018) A Coupled LES/Stochastic Modeling Approach to Jet Noise Prediction, AIAA Paper 2018-1248, AIAA Scitech Forum, Kissimmee, FL.
  • Wang, X., Bhushan, S., Manshoor, B., Luke, E., Sescu, A., Hattori, Y., Tompson, D. (2018) Dynamic Hybrid RANS/LES Assessment of Sound Generation and Propagation from Flow of a Circular Cylinder, AIAA Paper 2018-3592, AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, AIAA Aviation Forum.
  • Sescu, A. and Afsar, M. (2018) Optimal Control of Gortler Vortices in a High-Reynolds Number Asymptotics Framework, Fifteenth International Conference on Flow Dynamics, Sendai, Japan (ICFD2018).
  • Haywood, J. and Sescu. A. (2018) Control Forced Concurrent Precursor Method Applied to the LES of Turbulent Boundary Layers, Fifteenth International Conference on Flow Dynamics, Sendai, Japan (ICFD2018).
  • Afsar, M., Sescu, A., Sassanis, V. and Lele, S. (2017) Supersonic jet noise predictions using a unified asymptotic approximation for the adjoint Green’s function and LES data. AIAA Paper 2017-3030, AIAA Aviation, Denver, CO.
  • Sescu, A., Sawaya, J., Sassanis, V. and Visbal, M. (2017) Study of the Effect of Two-dimensional Wall Non-uniformities on High-speed Boundary Layers, AIAA Paper 2016-4511, AIAA Aviation, Denver, CO.
  • Haywood, J., Sescu, A., Foster, J. and Farthing, M. (2017) Triple Hill's Vortex Synthetic Eddy Method for Turbulent Inflow Conditions, AIAA Paper 2017-1225, AIAA Scitech, Grapevine, TX.
  • Afsar, M., Sescu, A., Sassanis, V., Towne, A., Bres, G.A. and Lele, S. (2016) Prediction of supersonic jet noise using non-parallel flow asymptotics and LES data within Goldstein's acoustic analogy, Center for Turbulence Research Summer Program, Stanford.
  • Sassanis, V., Sescu, A., Collins, E.M., Harris, R. and Luke, A.E. (2016) Hybrid Approach to Nonlinear Propagation of Jet Noise in Complex Environments, AIAA Paper 2016-0528.
  • Afsar, M., Sescu, A. and Leib, S. (2016) Predictive Capability of the Non-parallel flow Low Frequency Asymptotic Green’s Function in Jet Noise Modeling, AIAA Paper 2016-2804.
  • Sescu, A., Taoudi, L., Afsar, M. and Thompson D. (2016) Control of Görtler Vortices by Means of Surface Streaks, AIAA Paper 2016-3950.
  • Sescu, A., Yassir, S. and Visbal M. (2016) Compressible Boundary Layer Receptivity to Free-stream Disturbances and Step Excrescences, AIAA Paper 2016-4381.
  • Sescu, A. and Afsar, M. (2016) Can Wall Deformations Counteract Boundary Layer Streaks?, AIAA Paper 2016-1122.
  • Zhang, L., Laramee, R.S., Thompson, D., Sescu, A. and Chen, G. (2016) Flow Visualization Based on A Derived Rotation Field, IS&T Visualization and Data Analysis, San Francisco, CA.
  • Haywood, J., Sescu, A. and Visbal, M. (2015) "Pressure Gradient Effect on Boundary Layers over Surface Excrescences: Parametric Study", AIAA Paper 2015-0276, AIAA Scitech Meeting.
  • Sescu, A., Sassanis, V., Haywood, J. and Visbal, M. (2015) "Study of the Impact of Localized Roughness Elements on Gortler Instabilities", AIAA Paper 2015-0275, AIAA Scitech Meeting.
  • Harris, R., Collins, E.M., Sescu, A., Luke, A.E., Strutzenberg, L.L. and West, J.S. (2014) "High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin and Hybrid RANS/LES Method for Prediction of Launch Vehicle Lift-Off Acoustic Environments", AIAA Paper 2014-3052, AIAA Aviation Meeting.

Professional Memberships

  • Associate Fellow, AIAA
  • Member, ASME
  • Member, APS