• Instructional Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering
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Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology - 2018
  • M.S., Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology - 2013
  • B.S., Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology - 2011

Research Interests

    • Hypersonics
    • Boundary-layer receptivity, stability, transition, and control
    • Advanced computational stability methods

Awards & Honors

  • Best Paper Award for "Secondary Stability Analysis of Crossflow Vortices using BiGlobal Theory on PIV Base Flows", American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - 2017
  • Best Aerospace M.S. Thesis Nomination, Netherlands Association of Aeronautical Engineers and Royal Institute of Engineers - 2013

Selected Publications

  • Groot, Eppink, “Stability Analysis of the Flow over a Swept Forward-Facing Step using PIV Base Flows in a Nonorthogonal Coordinate System,” American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, August 2021.
  • Heston, Beyak, Groot, Reed, “Boundary-layer stability of a Slotted, Natural-Laminar-Flow airfoil at Flight Conditions,” American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, January 2021.
  • Groot, Niessen, "Localised eigenmodes in a moving frame of reference representing convective instability,” arXiv, January 2020.
  • Groot, Schuttelaars, “Accurate numerical approximation of the absolute stability of unbounded flows,” Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, January 2020, Pages 1-15.
  • Groot, Serpieri, Pinna, Kotsonis, “Secondary crossflow instability through global analysis of measured base flows,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, May 2018, Pages 605-653.