• Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Paul Cizmas Profile Photo

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Duke University - 1995
  • Dipl.-Ing., Polytechnic Institute, Bucharest - 1984

Research Interests

    • Propulsion
    • Unsteady Aerodynamics and Heat Transfer
    • Computational Fluid Dynamics
    • Aeroelasticity

Certifications & Memberships

  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers Fellow
  • American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Associate Fellow

Awards & Honors

  • Research and Technology Performance and Innovation Award, Boeing – 2018
  • Structures and Dynamics Committee Best Paper Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers – 2011
  • Herbert H. Richardson Faculty Fellow Award, Texas A&M University – 2009
  • E. D. Brockett Professorship Award, Texas A&M University – 2008
  • Select Young Faculty, Texas Engineering Experiment Station – 2004

Selected Publications

  • E.H. Krath, F.L. Carpenter and P.G.A. Cizmas, “Predictions of Unsteady Flows in Turbomachinery Cascades Using Proper Orthogonal Decomposition," Physics of Fluids, 36, 3, 037108 (2024)
  • J. Schoppe and P.G.A. Cizmas, “A Multi-Limiter Method for Simulating Complex Flows on Large Grids,” Physics of Fluids, 35, 125115 (2023)
  • Cizmas, P., Aerothermodynamics and Jet Propulsion, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1-108-48075-8, 2022
  • F.L. Carpenter, J. Kassing and P.G.A. Cizmas, “UNS3D Nearfield Predictions for the Third AIAA Sonic Boom Prediction Workshop,” Journal of Aircraft, in print, 2021
  • M.D. Polewski and P.G.A. Cizmas, “Several Cases for the Validation of Turbulence Models Implementation,” Applied Sciences, 11(8) 3377, 2021
  • E.H. Krath, F.L. Carpenter, P.G.A. Cizmas and D.A. Johnston, “An Efficient Proper Orthogonal Decomposition based Reduced-Order Model for Compressible Flows,” Journal of Computational Physics, 426, 109959, 2021
  • A. E. Ream, J. C. Slattery and P. G. A. Cizmas, "A method for generating reduced-order combustion mechanisms that satisfy the differential entropy inequality," Physics of Fluids, 30, 4, 043601-1--17 (2018)
  • S. Johnson, F. L. Carpenter, O. K. Rediniotis and P. G. A. Cizmas, "Experimental Validation of a Pulse Modulated Flow Control Actuator for Turbomachinery," Journal of Propulsion and Power, 33, 1358--1368 (2017)