Georg May - Aerospace Computing Lab - Stanford University

EDUCATION
Georg May
Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Durand Building 001
Stanford, CA 94305
(650) 723-9564
georgmay@stanford.edu
http://aero-comlab.stanford.edu/~georgmay
Stanford University, PhD Candidate, since 2001 Stanford, CA
Cumulative GPA 4.0/4.0
RWTH Aachen, Diplom Ingenieur, 1996-2001, Aachen, Germany
“mit Auszeichnung” (With Honors)
Dartmouth College, B.E. 1999-2000 Hanover, NH
Cumulative GPA 3.89 /4.0
HONORS AND AWARDS
Fellowship “Research and Technology” DaimlerChrysler AG 1998-2000
DAAD (“Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst”) Fellowship 1999-2000
Scholarship Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College 1999-2000
“Springorum Denkmuenze” (Springorum Medal) for Graduation with honors from Aachen
University, Germany
Stanford University, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Fellowship 2001-2002
Stanford Graduate Fellowship 2002-2005
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Developed a new high-order accurate numerical method for the compressible Navier-Stokes
equations on unstructured meshes and programmed software implementation for general twodimensional
flows.
Proposed a new gas-kinetic scheme for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations and
integrated the new methodology into industrial-strength software packages
Investigated Gibbs-complementary reconstruction for postprocessing of discontinuous
solutions to hyperbolic conservation laws, obtained via high-order spectral or pseudo-spectral
schemes
Currently developing and programming software suite for computational fluid dynamics and
aerodynamic shape design on general polyhedral meshes (structured, unstructured, Cartesian)
Developed automatic mesh coarsening procedure for tetrahedral and hybrid unstructured
meshes.
Extensive programming experience in Fortran 90, Fortran77, C++, C. Parallel Programming
using MPI and OpenMP
Computer literacy: Unix, Linux, Windows, and MacOS. Experienced in network
administration

RESEARCH INTERESTS
High order numerical methods for hyperbolic conservation laws on unstructured and
structured meshes using pseudo-spectral and spectral methods.
Kinetic schemes for computational fluid dynamics.
Numerical algorithms for unstructured and general polyhedral meshes.
Software development for scientific computing
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Internship MTU Aero Engines, Munich, Germany (2001)
Market analysis, civil aircraft. Performed statistical analysis and created reports for
aircraft market prediction
Engine predesign. Thermodynamic analysis of new aircraft engines
Research assistant Shocktube laboratory, Aachen University (1998)
Conducted experiments in rarefied gas dynamics
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
LANGUAGES
"A Spectral Difference Method for the Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations on Unstructured Meshes". AIAA-
2006-0304 and 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, January 9-12, 2006, Reno,
NV
“High order accurate methods for high-speed flows”. AIAA Paper 2005-5251 and 17 th AIAA
Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, June 6-9, 2005, Toronto, Canada
“Improved gas kinetic multigrid method for Three-Dimensional Computation of Viscous Flow”. AIAA Paper
2005-5106 and 35 th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, June 6-9, 2005, Toronto,
Canada
“Calculation of three-dimensional transonic flow using a gas-kinetic BGK finite volume method”. AIAA Paper
2005-1397 and 43 rd Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, January 10-13, 2005, Reno, NV.
“Unstructured algorithms for inviscid and viscous flows embedded in a unified solver architecture: Flo3xx”.
AIAA Paper 2005-0318 and 43 rd Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, January 10-13, 2005,
Reno, NV
“Drag Prediction for the DLR-F6 configuration”. AIAA Paper 2004-0396 and 42 nd Aerospace Sciences
Meeting and Exhibit, January 5-8, 2004, Reno, NV
Fluent in German and English
Working knowledge in French and Latin
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant, Aachen University, Germany
Graded problem sets for course in solid mechanics

Conducted weekly problem sessions, tutored students