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RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Research interests focus on rotorcraft and aircraft aeroacoustics, computational aeroacoustics, fluid mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, and high performance computing. Specific areas of research include rotor source noise prediction, prediction and characterization of rotorcraft noise in maneuvering flight, prediction of landing gear noise and other types of airframe noise. Recent research activities include the development of the rotorcraft noise prediction code PSU-WOPWOP which is able to predict noise from a rotorcraft with multiple rotors in both steady and maneuvering flight; prediction of noise generation and propagation from wind turbines; development of a component based landing gear noise prediction system; and investigation of soot combustion in underexpanded jet plume flows.
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy – 1991 – University of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College Cambridge, Cambridge, England, Thesis Title: “The Sound of Moving Bodies.” (Advisor: J. E. Ffowcs Williams)
Master of Science – 1987 – The George Washington University, Joint Institute for the Advancement of Flight Sciences, Hampton, Virginia. (Advisor: M. K. Myers)
Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering (with highest distinction) – 1983 – Purdue University, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, West Lafayette, Indiana.
EXPERIENCE
Professor, The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University Park, Pennsylvania (2007 – present).
Associate Professor, The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University Park, Pennsylvania (2000 – 2007).
Senior Research Engineer, NASA Langley Research Center, Computational Modeling and Simulation Branch; Aerodynamics, Aerothermodynamics, and Acoustics Competency, Hampton, Virginia (1998-2000).
Research Engineer, NASA Langley Research Center, Aerodynamic and Acoustic Methods Branch; Fluid Dynamics and Acoustics Division, Hampton, Virginia (1983-1998).
Adjunct Professor, Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia (1994-1995).
Research Assistant, Purdue University, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, West Lafayette, Indiana (1983).
Engineering Cooperative Education, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia. (5 semesters from 1979-1983).
AFFILIATIONS
Senior Member of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (1978 – present).
Member of the American Helicopter Society (1990 – present).
Editor-in-Chief: Journal of the American Helicopter Society. (2007-2009).
RECENT ARCHIVAL PUBLICATIONS
Brentner, K.S.: Numerical Algorithms for Acoustic Integrals With Examples for Rotor Noise Prediction. AIAA Journal, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 625-630, April 1997.
Farassat, F. and K.S. Brentner: The Acoustic Analogy and Prediction of the Noise of Rotating Blades. Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, Vol. 10, No. 1-4, pp. 155-170, January 1998.
Brentner, K.S. and F. Farassat: Analytical Comparison of the Acoustic Analogy and Kirchhoff Formulation for Moving Surfaces. AIAA Journal, Vol. 36, No. 8, pp. 1379-1386, August 1998.
Farassat, F. and K.S. Brentner: Supersonic Quadrupole Noise Theory for High-Speed Helicopter Rotors. Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 218, No. 3, pp. 481-500, December 1998.
Cox, J.S, K.S. Brentner, and C.L. Rumsey: Computation of Vortex Shedding and Radiated Sound for a Circular Cylinder: Subcritical to Transcritical Reynolds Numbers. Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 233-253, 1998.
Singer, B.A., K.S. Brentner, D.P. Lockard, and G.M. Lilley: Simulation of Acoustic Scattering from a Trailing Edge. Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 230, No. 3, pp. 541-560, 2000.
Singer,
B.A., D.P. Lockard, and K.S. Brentner:
Computational Aeroacoustics Analysis of Slat Trailing-Edge Flow. AIAA
Journal, Vol.38, No. 9, pp. 1558–1564, September 2000.
Brentner, K. S., and Farassat, F. Modeling Aerodynamically Generated Sound of Helicopter Rotors. Progress in Aerospace Sciences, Vol. 39, No. 2-3, pp. 83-120, February-April 2003.
Research Sponsors:
National Rotorcraft Technology Center
NASA Langley Research Center
National Renewable Energy Laboratory