Panton, Ronald L., Ph.D., P.E. 
  Title: J. H. Herring Centennial Professor
 Ph/Fax: (512)471-3129/ (512)471-1045
    URL: http://www.me.utexas.edu/~panton/
  EMail: rpanton@mail.utexas.edu
Location:ETC 7.148B
Address: Mechanical Engineering Department
         The University of Texas 
         1 University Station  C2200
         Austin, TX  78712-0292



Biographical Information
Professor in the thermal and fluid sciences group of Mechanical Engineering.
For a brief autobiographical sketch see Vita
Teaching Interests
Fluid Dynamics, Thermodynamics, Applied Mathematics, Perturbation Methods, and upon occasion, Combustion, Heat Transfer, and Acoustics
Incompressible Flow, 3rd edition 2005
A textbook covering the basic laws governing the flow of gases and liquids, the simplifications required for incompressible flow, and how flows change character with Reynolds Number.
For a Table of Contents click here.
Further comments and updates are given by chapter and section in the future. You may copy a list of typographical errors in the third printing of the third edition here.
A updated computer program to solve the entrance flow into a cascade of plates is here.

Research and Scholarship
A modern organization of turbulent wall layer theory is in the article. It includes a historical review as well as my own viewpoint.
"Review of Wall Turbulence as Described by Composite Expansions." (Click here) A survey of the ideas put forth by researchers regarding the dominant mechanisms of turbulence.
"Overview of the Self-Sustaining Mechanisms of Wall Turbulence," (Click here)
Two sections for the forthcoming Handbook of Experimental Fluid Mechanics from Springer-Verlag (Editors: C. Tropea, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany; J. Foss, Michigan State University, USA; A.L. Yarin, Technion, Israel) are:
A1 BASIC EQUATIONS (Click here) A summary of the general physical laws governing fluid mechanics.
A2.2 DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS AND DATA ORGANIZATION (Click here) A summary of the methods to extract information from data.
Applied Mechanics Reviews, 59, 2005, pp. 1-36.
Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 37, 2001, No. 4, pp. 341-383.


Other points of interest/contact
Austin,

The Mechanical Engineering Department
The University of Texas at Austin. and the University Directory.
This information was last updated May 12, 2006. rdf