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Education

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Penn State University, 1992

M.S. in Aeronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988 

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Penn State University, 1986

Research Interests

• Fluid dynamics
• Active and passive flow control
• Aeroacoustics
• Actuators and sensors
• Experimental methods and uncertainty analysis

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

• Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
• Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)  
• Fellow, American Physical Society (APS)  
• Fellow, Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS)
• Member, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
• Associate Editor, Experiments in Fluids 

Publications

• Yang Zhang, Louis Cattafesta, Kyle Pascioni, and Meelan Choudhari, “Slat Noise in High-Lift Systems,” Progress in Aerospace Sciences, Volume 146, 1 April 2024, 100996,
• Mostafa Aghaei-Jouybari, Jung-Hee Seo, Sasindu Pinto, Louis Cattafesta, Charles Meneveau, and Rajat Mittal, “Extended Darcy–Forchheimer law including inertial flow deflection effects, ” J. Fluid Mech. (2024), vol. 980, A13,
• Chelsea Solano and Louis Cattafesta, "Modeling, design, and optimization of a dielectric elastomer acoustic liner," International Journal of Aeroacoustics, October 2023, 
• Ross Richardson, Yang Zhang, and Louis Cattafesta, “Sensor Decontamination via Conditional Spectral Analysis,” Experiments in Fluids, 64:163, September 2023, 
• Jung-Hee Seo, Yang Zhang, Rajat Mittal, and Louis N. Cattafesta, “Vortex induced sound prediction of slat noise from time-resolved particle image velocimetry data,” Experiments in Fluids, 2023, 64:99, .
• Wu, W., Meneveau, C., Mittal, R., Padovan, A., Rowley, C., and Cattafesta, L., “Response of a turbulent separation bubble to zero-net-mass-flux jet perturbations,” Phys. Rev. Fluids, 7, 084601, Aug. 2022, https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.7.084601
• Singh, S., Ukeiley, L., Zhang, Y., Cattafesta, L., and· Taira, K., “Supersonic cavity flow control using a spanwise array of leading–edge tabs,” AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Feb. 2022,
• Zhang, Y., Cattafesta, L.N. III, Pascioni, K.A., Choudhari, M.M., Khorrami, M.R., Lockard, D.P., Turner, T., “Assessment of slat extensions and a cove filler for slat noise reduction,” AIAA J, September 2021,
• Liu, Q., Sun, Y., Yeh, C.–A., Ukeiley, L.S., Cattafesta, III, L.N., and Taira, K., “Unsteady control of supersonic turbulent cavity flow based on resolvent analysis,” J. Fluid Mech., vol. 925, A5, August 2021,
• Bao, S., T. Kanai, Zhang, Y., Guo, W. and Cattafesta III, L.N., “Stereoscopic detection of hot spots in superfluid 4He (He II) for accelerator–cavity diagnosis,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 161, 120259, November 2020,
• Zhang, Y., Cattafesta, L.N., and Ukeiley, L., “Spectral Analysis Modal Methods (SAMMs) using non–time–resolved PIV.” Exp Fluids, 61:226, October 2020,
• Deem, E., Cattafesta, L.N., Hemati, M.S., Zhang, H., Rowley, C.W., and Mittal, R., “Adaptive control of a separated laminar boundary layer using online dynamic mode decomposition,” J. Fluid Mech, vol. 903, A21, September 2020,
• Sellappan, P., Alvi, F. S. and Cattafesta, L. N., “Lagrangian and Eulerian measurements in high–speed jets using multi–pulse shake–the–box and fine scale reconstruction (VIC#),” Exp Fluids, 61:157, June 2020,
• Pan, Z., Zhang, Y., Gustavsson, J., Hickey, J.–P., and Cattafesta, L., “Unscented Kalman filter (UKF) based nonlinear parameter estimation for a turbulent boundary layer: a data assimilation framework,” Meas. Sci. Technol., 31, 094011, June 2020,
• Sanavandi, H., Bao, S., Zhang, Y., Keijzer, R., Guo, W. and Cattafesta III, L. N., “A cryogenic–helium pipe flow facility with unique double–line molecular tagging velocimetry capability,” Rev. Sci. Instrum., 91, 000000, May 2020,
• Nickels, A., Ukeiley, L., Reger, R., Cattafesta, L.N., “Low–order estimation of the velocity, hydrodynamic pressure, and acoustic radiation for a three–dimensional turbulent wall jet,” Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 116, 110101, August 2020,
• Zhang, H., Dawson, S.T.M., Rowley, C.W., Deem, E.A., and Cattafesta, L.N., “Evaluating the accuracy of the dynamic mode decomposition,” Journal of Computational Dynamics, Vol. 7, no. 1, June 2020,
• Sun, Y., Liu, Q., Cattafesta, L., Ukeiley, L. & Taira, K., “Resolvent analysis of compressible laminar and turbulent cavity flows,” AIAA J, Nov. 2019,
• Zhang, H., Dawson, S.T.M., Rowley, C.W., Deem, E.A., and Cattafesta, L.N., “Online dynamic mode decomposition for time–varying systems,” SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Syst., 18(3), 1586–1609, Sept. 2019,
• Sun, Y., Liu, Q., Cattafesta, L., Taira, K. and Ukeiley, L., “Effects of sidewalls and leading–edge blowing on flows over long rectangular cavities,” AIAA J, vol. 57, no. 1, January 2019,

Books

Book Chapters

• Richardson, R., Eckert, B., Zhang, Y., Cattafesta, L.N. III, Edstrand, A., Sun, Y., Schmid, P., and Taira, K., “Experimental Attenuation of a Trailing Vortex Inspired by Stability Analysis,” IUTAM Laminar-Turbulent Transition, IUTAM Bookseries, Volume 38, pp. 313-323, 2022,  
• Oyarzun, M. and Cattafesta, L., “Design of Synthetic Jets” in Synthetic Jets: Fundamentals and Applications, ed. K. Mohseni and R. Mittal, 382 pages, CRC Press, Sept. 2014, ISBN 9781439868102. 
• Cattafesta, L., Bahr, C., and Mathew, J., “Fundamentals of Wind-Tunnel Design,” in Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering, R. Blockley and W. Shyy (eds), John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK, pp. 691-700, 2010. 
• Cattafesta, L. and Sheplak, M. “Actuators and Sensors,” pp. 149-175, in Fundamentals and Applications of Active Flow Control, ed. R.D. Joslin and D.N. Miller, Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics Series, 231, Published by AIAA, 2009, 523 pages, Hardback, ISBN-10: 1-56347-983-4. 
• Cattafesta, L., Tian, Y., and Mittal, R., “Adaptive Control of Post-Stall Separated Flow – Application to Heavy Vehicles,” The Aerodynamics of Heavy Vehicles II: Trucks, Buses, and Trains, Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, vol. 21, eds. Fred Browand, Rose McCallen, and James Ross, Springer, pp. 151-160, Dec. 2008. 
• Agashe, J. S., Sheplak, M., Arnold, D. P., and Cattafesta, L. N., “MEMS-based actuators for flow-control applications,” IUTAM Symposium on Flow Control and MEMS, Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held at the Royal Geographical Society, 19-22 September 2006, hosted by Imperial College, London, England, IUTAM Bookseries, vol. 7, Morrison, J.F.; Birch, D.M.; Lavoie, P. (Eds.), pp. 25-32, 2008, ISBN: 978-1-4020-6857-7. 
• Sheplak, M., Cattafesta, L., and Tian, Y. “Micromachined Shear Stress Sensors for Flow Control Applications,” IUTAM Symposium on Flow Control and MEMS, Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held at the Royal Geographical Society, 19-22 September 2006, hosted by Imperial College, London, England, IUTAM Bookseries, vol. 7, Morrison, J.F.; Birch, D.M.; Lavoie, P. (Eds.), pp. 67-73, 2008, ISBN: 978-1-4020-6857-7. 
• Ukeiley, L., Murray, N., Song, Q., and Cattafesta, L., “Surface Pressure Based Estimation for Control,” IUTAM Symposium on Flow Control and MEMS, Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held at the Royal Geographical Society, 19-22 September 2006, hosted by Imperial College, London, England, IUTAM Bookseries, vol. 7, Morrison, J.F.; Birch, D.M.; Lavoie, P. (Eds.) 2008, XVI, 456 p., ISBN: 978-1-4020-6857-7. 

Patents

• Horowitz, S., Sheplak, M., Nishida, T. and Cattafesta, L., “Floating-element shear-stress sensor”, United States Patent Number 8,879,052, Issued November 4, 2014. 
• Sheplak, M., Cattafesta, L., Nishida, T., and Horowitz, S., “Electromechanical Acoustic Liner (part 2)”, United States Patent Number 7,212,641, Issued May 1, 2007. 
• Sheplak, M., Cattafesta, L, and Nishida, “Microelectromechanical Floating Element Flow Sensor,” U.S. Patent no. 6,966,231, Issued November 22, 2005. 
• Nishida, T., Cattafesta, L, Sheplak, M., and Ngo, K. D. T., “Resonant Energy MEMS Array and System Including Dynamically Modifiable Power Processor,” U.S. Patent no. 6,954,025, Issued October 11, 2005. 
• Sheplak, M., Cattafesta, L., Nishida, T., and Horowitz, S., “Electromechanical Acoustic Liner”, U.S. Patent Number 6,782,109, Issued August 24, 2004. 
• Cattafesta, L. N., III, Wlezien, R. W., Won, C. C., and Garg, S., “Mass Injection for Reducing Flow-Induced Resonance in a Cavity”, U.S. Patent Number 6,078,674, Issued June 20, 2000.
• Cattafesta, L. N., III, Wlezien, R. W., Won, C. C., and Garg, S., “Reducing Flow-Induced Resonance in a Cavity,” U.S. Patent Number 5,818,947, Issued Oct. 6, 1998.