• Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering
  • Engineering Honors Coordinator for Aerospace Engineering
  • Undergraduate Advising Coordinator
Adonios Karpetis Profile Photo

Educational Background

  • Postdoctoral, Sandia National Labs - 2000-2004
  • Postdoctoral, Yale University - 1999-2000
  • Ph.D., Yale University - 1998
  • M.Phil., Yale University - 1996
  • M.Sc., Princeton University - 1992
  • Dipl.-Ing. Aristotle University, Greece - 1989

Research Interests

    • High-speed combustion/propulsion
    • Laser diagnostics for reacting flows
    • Turbulent flames
    • Space weather

Awards & Honors

  • 2010 - Edward "Pete" Aldridge '60 Career Development Professorship II
  • 2004 - Silver Medal of The Combustion Institute

Selected Publications

  • Johnson A.A., Henley J., Pollock T., Hill C., and Karpetis A.N., Proton Noise and Streaks Modeling and Phenomenology, presented at the 11th Annual Space Protection Conference, August 25-27, 2009, Albuquerque, NM.
  • Bayeh A.C., Johnson A.A, Cohen B.N., and Karpetis A.N., Pressure and thermochemistry measurements in high speed reacting flows using rotational and vibrational Raman spectroscopy, presented at the 6th U. S. National Combustion Meeting, May 17-20, 2009, Ann Arbor, MI.
  • Kluzek C., Karpetis A.N. and Barlow R.S., Scalar structure of laminar partially premixed flames, presented at the 6th U. S. National Combustion Meeting, May 17-20, 2009, Ann Arbor, MI.
  • Cai J., Tong C., Barlow R.S., and Karpetis A.N., Conditionally filtered diffusion of mixture fraction and temperature in turbulent partially premixed flames, presented at the 6th U. S. National Combustion Meeting, May 17-20, 2009, Ann Arbor, MI.
  • Kluzek C. and Karpetis A.N., Scalar structure of laminar partially premixed flames, presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Mechanics, November 23-25, 2008, San Antonio, TX.
  • Bayeh A.C., Cosse J.T., and Karpetis A.N., Rotational-vibrational Raman spectroscopy for the measurement of thermochemistry in nonisobaric flames, presented at the 61$st Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Mechanics, November 23-25, 2008, San Antonio, TX.
  • Kinra R. and Karpetis A.N., Experimental spectroscopy for the high-school Physics curriculum, presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Mechanics, November 23-25, 2008, San Antonio, TX.
  • Tong C., Wang D., Barlow R.S., and Karpetis A.N., Effects of the subgrid-scale mixture fraction structure on scalar and temperature dissipation in turbulent partially premixed flames, presented at the 5th U. S. National Combustion Meeting, March 25-28, 2007, San Diego, CA.
  • Jarczyk J.G. and Karpetis A.N., Non-linear behavior in Butane and Butane/Air Mixtures, presented at the 44th Annual Technical Meeting, Society of Engineering Science, College Station, October 21-24 2007.
  • Bayeh A.C., Cosse J.T. and Karpetis A.N., Rotational/vibrational line imaging measurements in supersonic flows, presented at the 44th Annual Technical Meeting, Society of Engineering Science, College Station, October 21-24 2007.