Jeffrey P. Thomas

Assistant Research Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Dr. Thomas' field of research is computational aeroelasticity. This is the study of fluid and structural interaction. Dr. Thomas develops numerical methods to simulate complex physical phenomena.

Appointments and Affiliations

  • Assistant Research Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Contact Information

  • Office Location: 237 Hudson Eng Ctr, Durham, NC 27708
  • Office Phone: (919) 660-5173
  • Email Address: jthomas@duke.edu
  • Websites:

Education

  • B.S. University of Kansas, 1989
  • M.S. University of Kansas, 1991
  • Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1996

Courses Taught

  • ME 472: Aircraft Performance
  • ME 490: Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering
  • ME 491: Special Projects in Mechanical Engineering
  • ME 555: Advanced Topics in Mechanical Engineering
  • ME 639: Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer

Representative Publications

  • Thomas, J. P., and E. H. Dowell. “Methodology for Numerically Stabilizing a Harmonic-Balance-Based Forced Response Aeroelastic Solution Approach.” AIAA Journal 61, no. 2 (February 1, 2023): 965–72. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J061599.
  • Brown, C., G. McGowan, K. Cooley, J. Deese, T. Josey, E. H. Dowell, and J. P. Thomas. “Convolution/Volterra Reduced-Order Modeling for Nonlinear Aeroelastic Limit Cycle Oscillation Analysis and Control.” AIAA Journal 60, no. 12 (December 1, 2022): 6647–64. https://doi.org/10.2514/1.J061845.
  • Brown, C., G. McGowan, K. Cooley, J. Deese, T. Josey, E. H. Dowell, and J. P. Thomas. “Convolution/Volterra Reduced-Order Modeling for Flutter and LCO Predictions in Highly Nonlinear Systems.” In AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, AIAA SciTech Forum 2022, 2022. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-0991.
  • Thomas, J. P., and E. H. Dowell. “Non-Intrusive Polynomial Chaos Approach for Nonlinear Aeroelastic Uncertainty Quantification.” In AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum, 2022. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-3869.
  • Thomas, J. P., and E. H. Dowell. “Automatic differentiation based nonlinear reduced-order model with geometric gradient computation capability.” In AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum, 1–17, 2021.