D. SCOTT MCRAE
Professor

Education
Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, 1976
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 1966
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1961

Research Interests
Computational fluid dynamics, Unsteady flow, Propulsion, Enviromental flows

Professional Experience
1993-present Professor, North Carolina State University.

1981-1993 Associate Professor, North Carolina State University.

1961-1981 Continuous service with U.S. Air Force; current rank - Major. Air Force Assignments:

1977-1981 Chief, Flight Dynamics Laboratory Flight Vehicle Technology Ofhce, Ames Research Center (NASA), Moffett Field California.

1975-1977 Computational Aerodynamicist, Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.

1971-1975 Research Engineer, Hypersonics Research Laboratory (Later Theoretical Aerodynamics Laboratory), Aerospace Research Laboratories, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.

1969-1971 Full-time Graduate Study, Air Force Institute of Technology School of Engineering, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.

1966-1969 Systems Engineer, SR-71 Operational Engineering Section, Beale AFB, California.

1964-1966 Full-time Graduate Study, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri,

1961-1964 Communications Officer, 2860th Ground Electronics Engineering Installation Agency Squadron; Assistant Chief, Radio Installation Section.

1961 Project Engineer, the Proctor and Gamble Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. Professional Society and Committee Memberships

Professional Societies
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - Senior Member, President Carolina Section - 1983 to 1985

American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Member

Selected Publications
Coffey, T. S., R. J. McMullan, C. T. Kelley and D. S. McRae, "Globally Convergent Algorithms for Nonsmooth Nonlinear Equations in Computational Fluid Dynamics", J. Comp. Appl. Math, Vol. 152, 2003, pp 69-81

Srivastava, R, McRae, D.S. and Odman, T., “Simulation of A reacting Pollutant Puff using an Adaptive Grid Algorithm,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Vol. 106, No. D20, (2001 Oct. 27), pp. 24,245-24,257

Srivastava, R, McRae, D.S. and Odman, T., “Simulation of A Power Plant Plume using an Adaptive Grid Algorithm,” Atmospheric Environment, Vol. 35,(2001), pp. 4801-4818

McRae, D.S.,"r-Refinement Grid Adaption and Issues”, Computational Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 189 (2000), pp. 1161-1182

Srivastava, R. K., McRae, D. S., and Odman, M. T., “An Adaptive Grid Algorithm for Air-Quality Modeling,” Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 165, No. 2, Dec 2000, pp. 437-472

"Adaptive Mesh Algorithms-A Review of Progress and Future Research Directions," AIAA 2001-2551(pdf ~2.5 MB | postscript ~95 MB)

Bond & McRae, "Testing of an Interblock Communication  Algorithm for Dynamically Discontinuous Interfaces in 3-D Flow Fields," 8Th International Grid Conference (pdf)

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