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Darrell S. Crowe

Darrell S. Crowe

Assistant Professor
Full-Time Faculty
Contact 937-229-9380 Email Darrell S. Crowe

Darrell S. Crowe

Assistant Professor
Full-Time Faculty

Bio

Dr. Crowe joined the UD faculty in 2026 after a 22-year career with the United States Air Force. While on active duty, Dr. Crowe held various technical and leadership positions as an aeronautical engineer in the areas of propulsion and power, flight testing, and autonomy, receiving numerous awards and decorations. He spent a majority of his career in academia at the Air Force Institute of Technology as an expert in the field of computational fluid dynamics.

Education

  • Ph.D., Aeronautical Engineering
  • M.S., Aeronautical Engineering
  • B.S., Aerospace Engineering

Research Interests

  • Applied computational fluid dynamics
  • Weapons and weapons bay aerodynamics
  • Propulsion systems integration
  • Hypersonics
  • Advanced air mobility

Selected Publications

  • Bonavita, A., Zollars, M., MacDermott, R., Crowe, D., “Direct Collocation Methods for Boost-Glide Vehicle Trajectory Optimization with Newtonian Aerodynamic Model,” Journal of Aircraft, 2025 (article in advance).
  • Krolak, C., Reeder, M., Maatz, I., Crowe, D., “Flight Tests of Cavity-Store Interactions at Subsonic and Supersonic Conditions,” Journal of Defense Research & Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2025, pp. 67-79.
  • Georgiadis, N. J., Wernet, M. P., Crowe, D. S., Woeber, C., Karman-Shoemake, K., and Winkler, C.M., “Assessment of Multi-Physics Computations of a Heated Nozzle Exhaust Over a Film-Cooled Plate,” Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 2025 (article in advance).
  • Kauffman, A., MacDermott, R., Crowe, D., Eymann, T., “Cavity Flow Analysis of a Novel Cavity
    Design for Store Separation,” Journal of Defense Research & Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2025, pp. 35-44.
  • Lee, T. J., Reeder, M. F., Crowe, D. S., “Isolating Jet Interaction Effects on a Cone Mounted on a Wind Tunnel Balance in Mach 3.9 Flow”, Journal of Defense Research & Engineering, Vol. 7, No. 4, 2024, pp. 33-43.
  • DeHart, S. N., Crowe, D. S., “System Identification as a Digital Thread Between High-Fidelity and Engagement-Level Modeling”, Journal of Defense Research & Engineering, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2024, pp. 15-28.

Selected Honors and Awards

  • Dean’s Distinguished Teaching Professor Recognition, AFIT Graduate School of Engineering and Management, 2023
  • NASA Distinguished Publication Award, Glenn Research Center, 2023
  • AIAA Best Paper Award: Inlets, Nozzles, and Propulsion Systems Integration, 2022
  • AIAA Associate Fellow, 2020
  • Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education Faculty Excellence Award, 2015

Courses Taught

  • MEE 404 - Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics
  • MEE 401/AEE 501 - Aerodynamics
  • AEE 590 - Computational Fluid Dynamics for Compressible Flows

Professional Activities

  • American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA): Inlets, Nozzles, and Propulsion Systems Integration Technical Committee (INPSI): member, 2015-present
  • Propulsion Aerodynamics Workshop (PAW): organizing committee and test case leader, 2017-2025
  • Overset Grid Symposium (OGS): organizing committee, 2012 and 2024