Scott Jackson

Educational Background

Ph.D., Aeronautics with minor in Geophysics, California Institute of Technology - 2005
M.S., Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology - 2000
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, Brown University - 1999

- Shock and detonation physics  energetic materials
- Combustion
- Explosions
- Propulsion

Artistic Merit Award, Central States Section Combustion Art Competition, 12th US National Combustion Meeting - 2021
Los Alamos National Lab Distinguished Performance Award, Hot Composition B Performance Team - 2017
National Nuclear Security Administration Defense Programs Award of Excellence, Barrier for Detonation Attenuation Team - 2014
National Nuclear Security Administration Defense Programs Award of Excellence, Gemini Experiment Series Team - 2012
Los Alamos National Lab Distinguished Performance Award, Project GREENSKY Team - 2012

S.I. Jackson, “Scaling of the detonation product state with reactant kinetic energy,” Combustion and Flame, 2018, 190, Pages 240-251.
S.I. Jackson, “The dependence of Ammonium-Nitrate Fuel-Oil (ANFO) detonation on confinement,” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2017, 36(2), Pages 2791-2798.
S. Jackson, B. Lee and J.E. Shepherd, “Detonation mode and frequency analysis under high loss conditions for stoichiometric propane-oxygen,” Combustion and Flame, 2016, 167, Pages 24-38.
S.I. Jackson and M. Short, “Scaling of detonation velocity in cylinder and slab geometries for ideal, insensitive and non-ideal explosives,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2015, 773, Pages 224-266.
M. Cooper, S. Jackson, J. Austin, E. Wintenberger and J.E. Shepherd, “Direct experimental impulse measurements for detonations and deflagrations,” Journal of propulsion and power, 2002, 18(5), Pages 1033-1041.