MAE Colloquium: Jacob McFarland (Texas A&M)

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Bio:
Jacob McFarland is an associate professor in J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He leads the Fluid Mixing at Extreme Conditions Laboratory.

While earning his graduate degrees he performed research in steam turbine aerothermodynamics, shock-driven variable density turbulence, and supercritical CO2 heat transfer. His current research interests are in shock-driven multiphase flows, energetics, detonations, supercritical vaporization, droplet breakup, and reactions in multiphase flows.

Prof. McFarland earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from TAMU, his M.S. in mechanical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Texas Tech University.