Ray Rahmat Taghavi


Ray Taghavi
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies
  • Sharp Professor and Associate Chair of Aerospace Engineering
  • Professor & Associate Chair

Contact Info

Office Phone:
Department Phone:
Learned Hall, room #2118D
Learned Hall

Research

Research interests:

  • Supersonic Jet noise
  • Aerodynamics
  • Aircaft propulsion

Selected Publications

Flesberg, Sonja, Ray Taghavi, and Saeed Farokhi. Mixing Enhancement in a Scramjet Combustor Using Fuel Jet Injection Swirl. Conference Proceedings, 2018.Farokhi, Saeed, Ray Taghavi, and Shawn Keshmiri. On Entropy Trail. Conference Proceedings. Annual Meeting of American Physical Society (APS), Division of Fluid Dynamics; Boston, Massachusetts, Nov. 22-24, 2015 , 2015.Han, Sang Yeop, and Ray R Taghavi. Development of Heat Exchanger for Launch Vehicles. Conference Proceedings. ASME-JSME-KSME Joint Fluids Engineering Conference (AJK2015), Seoul, Korea, July 26-31, 2015, 2015.Karwas, Alex A, and Ray R Taghavi. A New Approach to Simulating the Trajectory of Solar Sail Using the Finite Element Method. Conference Proceedings. Proceedings of AIAA SciTech Conference. Kissimmee, FL, January, 2015.Taghavi, R. “One Chapter in Aircraft Propulsion.” Book Chapters. In Aircraft Propulsion. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2014.Taghavi, R. “Propulsion Options for Unmanned Air Vehicles.” Book Chapters. In Handbook of Unmanned Air Vehicles. Springer Publishing Company, 2014.

Awards & Honors

John E. and Winifred E. Sharp Professorship Award
KU School of Engineering
2015John E. and Winifred E. Sharp Professorship Award
KU School of Engineering
2001 - 2005