FOLUSO LADEINDE, PH.D.
Cornell University, Ph.D. 1988
Cornell University, M.Eng. 1986
Cornell University, M.S. 1984
Foluso Ladeinde earned several degrees from Cornell University, including the Ph.D. from The Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is a tenured faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stony Brook University, where he teaches courses in aerospace propulsion, numerical methods, applied mathematics, and theoretical fluid dynamics. He is the founding Chairman and was the Department Head (2015-2019) of the ABET-accredited Department of Mechanical Engineering, State University of New York, Incheon, South Korea. He was a Summer Faculty Fellow for ten years at the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Ladeinde’s research uses advanced computational science and applied mathematics to investigate theoretical fluid dynamics, fluid flow turbulence theory, two-phase flows and heat transfer, supersonic combustion, and, more recently, atmospheric cloud microphysics. His work has been funded by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF), the United States Air Force (USAF), the United States Navy (USN), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and commercial industry, including The Boeing Aerospace Corporation. He was two-term Chairman of the External Review Board of the NASA Center for Aerospace Research at North Carolina A&T University, Greensboro, North Carolina. Dr. Ladeinde has served as an Associate Editor (2009-2013) of the AIAA Journal, the flagship journal of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), an Associate Editor (2015-Present) of The ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering, and a Guest Editor of the Physics of Fluids (2020-2021). He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA, a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a Life Member of the American Physical Society (APS), and a member of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and The Combustion Institute. He has published over 300 papers in archival journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings. Dr. Ladeinde has won Best Paper and Best Reviewer awards.
| Office: Heavy Engineering Building, Room 224 Phone: (631) 632-9293 / Fax: (631) 632-8544 Email: Foluso.Ladeinde@stonybrook.edu |
Fall Courses
| Accordion Item Title | Accordion Item Content |
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| MEC 422 Thermal System Design | Prerequisite: MEC 305 Course Description: Device design and system design. Quantitative data for system design including operating characteristics of compressors, turbines, heat exchangers, piping systems, internal combustion engines, and other component equipment. Component matching and system simulation. Optimization including thermo-economic evaluation and energy analysis. Case studies: refrigeration and air conditioning systems; combined cycles; steam-injected gas turbines. |
| MEC 507 Mathematical Methods in Engineering Analysis I | Prerequisite: Graduate standing in mechanical engineering and/or permission of the instructor. Course Description: An introduction to the use of mathematical analysis techniques for the solution of engineering problems and the simulation of engineering systems. Both continuous and discrete methods are covered. Initial and boundary value problems for ordinary and partial differential equations are treated. |
Spring Courses
| Accordion Item Title | Accordion Item Content |
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| MEC 320 Numerical Methods in Engineering Design and Analysis | Prerequisite: MEC 102 or CSE 114 or CSE 130 or ESG 111 or ESE 124; AMS 261 or MAT 203; AMS 361 or
MAT 303. Course Description: This course emphasizes the implementation of numerical methods for computer-aided solutions to problems that arise in engineering design and analysis. Methods include interpolation, extrapolation, curve fitting, and integration and techniques for solving non-linear equations, systems of linear equations, and differential equations. Optimization in engineering design is covered from the formulation of design specifications and criteria, to analyzable models, through to numerical implementation. |
| MEC 465/565 Aerospace Propulsion | Prerequisite: MEC 301, MEC 305, MEC 364, or Written Permission of the Instructor. Course Description: Fundamentals of propulsion; performance parameters, thermodynamic cycles. Introduction to combustion and combustors. Performance and cycle analysis of various flight propulsion systems: turbojets, turbofans, turboprops, ramjets, scramjets, rockets, propellers. Design of supersonic inlet nozzles, component matching and map. |