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Timothy Andrew Barber, B.S.M.E.

This website serves as a resume, project organizer, and an educational mecca, forum, and collection.  I plan to host my accomplishments, ideas, tips/tricks, current work, and hobbies.  Topics will range from software, science tools, mathematics, gardening, urban development, and related plus many topics.
About me:

I am currently 29 years old living in Knoxville, TN.  I was born and raised in Nashville, TN where I lived for approximately 23 years.  My parents, my wife's parents, and many friends still live in Nashville so I frequently visit my hometown.  I graduated high school in 2001 from David Lipscomb where I attended since 1st grade.  I spent my first two years of undergraduate education at Lipscomb University studying Engineering Mechanics.  In 2003 I transferred to Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, TN (about 80 miles east of Nashville).  I graduated from TTU in 2006 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering.  Since the fall of 2006 I have attended the University of Tennessee Space Institute in Tullahoma, TN next to the Arnold Engineering Development Center where there are world class aerospace testing facilities.  I spent two years living in Manchester, TN (nearby) commuting until the summer of 2008 when I moved to Knoxville to live with my wife as she began her veterinary medicine degree at the UT campus after she graduated from Middle Tennessee State University.  I now commute to Tullahoma (about 3 hrs) occasionally since most of my research can be done long distance.  I plan to graduate by May 2012 with a Master's and PhD in Aerospace Engineering.  I have also lived in Huntsville, AL for 6 months in 2006 with relatives and worked at the Redstone Army Base as a Mechanical Trade Helper where I assisted technicians who maintained and installed security systems around the base.  I have also lived in Cookeville, TN (2 and 1/2 yrs), and I am familiar with Mufreesboro, TN and Tullahoma, TN.

General Interest:

My interest include general science, history, and mathematics, art (oil painting), working out (exercise and weight training), gardening/landscaping, computers, sports, urban development, electronics, aerospace, mechanical, and general engineering.

Research Interest:

Specifically my research and interests contain and involve hypersonic vehicle technologies, modeling inviscid, viscous (laminar, turbulent, and boundary layers), incompressible, and compressible (subsonic, supersonic, hypersonic) flows, analytical and computer/numeric models, perturbation methods, asymptotic models/analysis, special functions, and modeling internal and external fluid dynamic flows.

Master's Topic:

My master's degree thesis topic is over hypersonic vehicle technology.  It encompasses a survey taking into account many subtopics and historical marks.

PhD Topic:

My PhD degree dissertation topic is over modeling fluid flows through different geometries.  The fluid flows are with and without swirl.  This topic investigates the Bragg-Hawthorne-Squire-Long Equation.
Education:

  • Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN,  2001 - 2003, Engineering Mechanics, no degree obtained
  • Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, 2003 - 2006, BS Mechanical Engineering
  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, TN), 2006 - 2012, MS Aerospace Engineering
  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, TN), 2006 - present, planned graduation 2013, PhD Aerospace Engineering
Publications:


*Conference Papers -

T.A. Barber, B.A. Maicke, and J. Majdalani, “Current State of High Speed Propulsion: Gaps, Obstacles, and Technological Challenges in Hypersonic Applications,” 45th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit, Denver, Colorado: August 2009.

PDF of first page for Current State of High Speed Propulsion: Gaps, Obstacles, and Technological Challenges in Hypersonic Applications at AIAA.org

T.A. Barber and J. Majdalani, “Exact Eulerian Solution of the Conical Bidirectional Vortex,” 45th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit, Denver, Colorado: August 2009.


* PDF's of the full paper can be found at my LinkedIn and Academia.edu profiles.
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