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Sam S. Fisher
Professor
Telephone: (434) 924-6212
E-mail: ssf@virginia.edu
Sam S. Fisher has been on the University of Virginia faculty since 1967. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, and MS and PhD degrees, each in Engineering, from UCLA. He has worked separately for Hughes Aircraft Company (Missile and Space Division, Los Angeles) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has had extended professional connections with Union Carbide Corp., NASA Langley, and Dupont Richmond. His research primarily is of a laboratory-investigation kind, involving separate aspects of fluid mechanics. His current interests connect with behaviors and properties of low-speed turbulent flows - mainly turbulent jet flows and turbulent jet-wall impingement flows. Transition-to-turbulence processes and boundary-layer turbulence behaviors are of interest also. He previously has conducted research in the following areas: molecular beam development and applications, molecule-surface interactions, rarefied gas dynamics, supersonic and hypersonic jets, electromagnetic levitation, isotope separation, high-speed gas centrifuges, condensation kinetics, and supersonic shear flows. His teaching connects mainly with Aerospace Engineering; mechanics, fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, gas dynamics, thermo-dynamics, laboratory, and introduction to engineering courses taught. He has wide general interests in aerodynamics, including aerodynamics flows over bodies, wind tunnel applications, and aerodynamic modeling methods. He is an active member of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics and sometimes active in AIAA and ASME activities. He is Faculty Advisor for the Virginia chapter of Sigma Gamma Tau, National AE honorary; he is also a regional coordinator for the society .
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