- Instructional Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering
- Phone: 979-845-4539
- Email: koengroot@tamu.edu
- Office: HRBB 611C
- Linkedin: Profile Page
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
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- 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.