Address: University of Southern California Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Los Angeles, California 90089-1191 Office: RRB 207 Tel. (213) 821-5789 Fax. (213) 740-8071 email: pottebau@usc.edu

Academic rank: Assistant Professor, full-time

Education:

2003 Ph.D., Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology
1999 M.S., Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology
1998 B.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern California

USC Academic Positions:

2005-: Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering

Other Professional Positions:

2004-2005: Staff Scientist, Arete Associates, Sherman Oaks, CA
2003-2004: Postdoctoral Scholar, Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology

Research Interests:

Convective heat transfer, bluff-body aerodynamics, fluid-structure interactions, microscale fluid flow

Selected Publications:

T.S. Pottebaum and M. Gharib, "Using Oscillations to Enhance Heat Transfer for a Circular Cylinder," International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 49, pp. 3190-3210, 2006.

T.S. Pottebaum and D.G. MacMynowski, "Buffeting of Large Telescopes: Wind Tunnel Measurements of the Flow inside a Generic Enclosure," Journal of Fluids and Structures, 22, pp. 3-19, 2006.

T.S. Pottebaum and M. Gharib, "The pinch-off process in a starting buoyant plume," Experiments in Fluids 37 (1), pp. 87-94, 2004.

Professional Societies:

American Physical Society
American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Courses Taught:

AME 341, Mechoptronics
AME 530A, Dynamics of Incompressible Fluids

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