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Contact Information

Phone: 405-325-1749   Office: 219D Felgar Hall

Dr. Attar also serves as the faculty advisor for the student section of AIAA.

 

                                                                        

Assistant Professor Peter J. Attar

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering - 2003
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering - 1999
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

B.S., Mechanical Engineering - 1997
Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts

RESEARCH INTEREST 

  • Nonlinear Aeroelasticity
  • Computational Methods in Aeroelasticity
  • Reduced Order Modeling
  • Nonlinear System Identification
  • Stochastic Methods in Nonlinear Aeroelasticity
  • Nonlinear Dynamics

COURSES TAUGHT

  • AME 5023 Elastic Stress Analysis

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • Attar, P.J., Dowell, E.H., White, J.R., and Thomas, J.P., "A Reduced Order Nonlinear System Identification Methodology", AIAA Journal, Vol. 44, No. 8, pp 1895-1904 August 2003
  • Attar, P.J. and Dowell, E.H., "A Stochastic Analysis of the Limit Cycle Behavior of a Nonlinear Aeroelastic Model Using the Response Surface Method", Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 1044-1052 July-August 2005
  • Liu, L., Dowell, E.H., Thomas, J.P., Attar, P., and Hall, K.C., "A Comparison of Two Harmonic Balance Approaches for Duffing Oscillators: Classic and High Dimensional", Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 215, Issue I, June 2006

AWARDS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate, AFRL/VAAC Computations Science Branch
  • Reviewer: Journal of Aircraft, Journal of Fluids and Structures, Journal of Sound and Vibration

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics



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