Reda R. Mankbadi

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'''Reda R. Mankbadi''' is the founding Dean of the Engineering College at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.<ref name="ERAU"/> He is a former NASA senior scientist at NASA's Glenn Research Center<ref name=":1">{{cite journal |last1=Shih |first1=S.H. |last2=Hixon |first2=R. |last3=Mankbadi |first3=Reda R. |title=Three-Dimensional Structure in a Supersonic Jet Behavior Near Centerline |journal=NASA Technical Memorandum |date=March 1995 |url=https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19950016803/downloads/19950016803.pdf |access-date=1 September 2021 |publisher=National Aeronautics and Space Administration}}</ref> and a Fellow of the NASA Lewis Research Academy.<ref name=":2">{{cite journal | title=Biographies of the editorial team | journal=International Journal of Aeroacoustics | publisher=SAGE Publications | volume=20 | issue=1–2 | date=2021-02-22 | issn=1475-472X | doi=10.1177/1475472x21994051 | pages=174–191| s2cid=232021174 }}</ref> Mankbadi has published over 150 scientific papers.<ref name=":6">{{cite web |title=Reda R Mankbadi |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=R9oIJ_UAAAAJ |website=Google Scholar |access-date=1 September 2021}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{cite web |title=R. Mankbadi |url=https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/R.-Mankbadi/82047769 |website=Semantic Scholar |access-date=1 September 2021}}</ref>

==Early life and education== Mankbadi grew up in a Coptic Christian household between Cairo and Upper Egypt. He first attended Franciscan Catholic School but then transferred to public schools. He received a BS degree in Engineering from Cairo University.<ref name=":12">{{cite web |title=Reda R. Mankbadi |url=https://vertipedia.vtol.org/biographies/getBiography/biographyID/519 |website=Vertipedia |access-date=1 September 2021}}</ref>

Mankbadi earned his PhD in engineering from Brown University in 1979.<ref name=":4"/>

==Career== Early in his career, Mankbadi served as a professor at Cairo University and Rutgers University.<ref name="ERAU">{{cite web |title=Reda Mankbadi |url=https://faculty.erau.edu/Reda.Mankbadi |website=Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Faculty |access-date=1 September 2021}}</ref><ref name=":9">{{cite web |title=International Scientific Committee |url=http://icfd-egypt.com/I_Scientific_Committee.html |website=International Conference of Fluid Dynamics |access-date=1 September 2021}}</ref> While teaching at Rutgers University, Mankbadi received the Rutgers University Faculty Merit Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching in 1984.<ref name=":4">{{cite magazine |date=April 1995 |title=Applied Mechanics Reviews |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g-RHAQAAIAAJ |magazine=Applied Mechanics Reviews |publisher=American Society of Mechanical Engineers |volume=48 |issue=4–6 |access-date=1 September 2021}}</ref> Mankbadi was a Fulbright scholar in 1986.<ref name=":3">{{cite web |title=Reda Mankbadi |url=https://cies.org/grantee/reda-mankbadi |website=Fulbright Scholar Program |access-date=1 September 2021}}</ref> In 1986, he also served as a Visiting Associate Professor at Brown University. In the following year, he served as a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany.<ref name=":2"/><ref name=":12"/>

In 1988, Mankbadi was awarded the Presidential Medal of Science and Arts of the First Order in Egypt.<ref name=":4"/><ref name="ERAU"/>

Eventually, Mankbadi served as a senior scientist at NASA's Glenn Research Center.<ref name=":10">{{cite conference |url=https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20010061419 |title=Solutions to Shock-Sound Interaction |last1=Hixon |first1=Ray |last2=Mankbadi |first2=Reda R. |date=1 August 2000 |publisher=NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH United States |conference=Third Computational Aeroacoustics (CAA) Workshop on Benchmark Problems |id=20010061419 }}</ref><ref name=":13">{{cite book |editor1-last=McCormick |editor1-first=Barnes Warnock |editor2-last=Newberry |editor2-first=Conrad F. |editor3-last=Jumper |editor3-first=Eric |title=Aerospace Engineering Education During the First Century of Flight |date=2004 |publisher=American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics |location=Reston, VA |isbn=9781563477102 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-YJZ3jMMk1MC |access-date=1 September 2021}}</ref> He was also appointed a fellow of the NASA Lewis Research Academy in 1990.<ref name=":2"/><ref name="ERAU"/><ref name=":12"/> He then became an Affiliated Professor at the Ohio Aerospace Institute.<ref name=":12"/> From 1996 to 1999, Mankbadi was named an Ohio Board of Regents Professor.<ref name="ERAU"/><ref name=":12"/>

Mankbadi became the Founding Dean of the Engineering College at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2002.<ref name=":2"/><ref name="ERAU"/><ref name=":12"/> He continues to serve at Embry-Riddle as a distinguished professor of aeronautical engineering.<ref name=":14">{{cite news |last1=Circelli |first1=Deborah |title=Embry-Riddle programs get international attention |url=https://www.news-journalonline.com/article/LK/20121130/News/605077851/DN |access-date=1 September 2021 |work=Daytona Beach News-Journal |date=30 November 2012 |archive-date=1 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210901181257/https://www.news-journalonline.com/article/LK/20121130/News/605077851/DN |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=":15">{{cite web |title=ULI Interested Partner List (Round 4) |url=https://www.nasa.gov/aeroresearch/programs/tacp/ui/uli/partners-list-round-4/ |website=NASA |access-date=1 September 2021 |date=18 March 2021}}</ref><ref name=":18">{{cite news |last1=Jarvis |first1=Michaela |title=Embry-Riddle Students Collaborate on Inventions that Support Industry, Hands-On Learning |url=https://news.erau.edu/headlines/embry-riddle-students-collaborate-on-inventions-that-support-industry-hands-on-learning |access-date=1 September 2021 |work=Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Newsroom |date=9 December 2020}}</ref>

In 2008, Mankbadi co-founded the Florida Center for Advanced Aero-Propulsion (FCAAP),<ref name=":9"/> which was established by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in collaboration with Florida State University, the University of Central Florida, and the University of Florida.<ref name=":17">{{cite web |title=Florida Center for Advanced Aero-Propulsion (FCAAP) |url=https://www.eng.famu.fsu.edu/research/florida-center-for-advanced-aero-propulsion |website=FAMU-FSU College of Engineering |access-date=1 September 2021}}</ref> He currently serves as the ERAU director for FCAAP.<ref name=":12"/>

==Research== Most of Mankbadi's research focuses on the areas of propulsion, turbulence, aeroacoustics, and energy.<ref name=":2"/> He has developed a theory for the coherent structures in turbulent flows,<ref name="Mankbadi 1985 pp. 385–419">{{cite journal | last=Mankbadi | first=Reda R. | title=On the interaction between fundamental and subharmonic instability waves in a turbulent round jet | journal=Journal of Fluid Mechanics | publisher=Cambridge University Press (CUP) | volume=160 | year=1985 | issn=0022-1120 | doi=10.1017/s0022112085003536 | pages=385–419| bibcode=1985JFM...160..385M | s2cid=123164780 }}</ref><ref name="Mankbadi 1994-2">{{cite book | last=Mankbadi | first=R. R. | title=Transition, turbulence, and noise: theory and applications for scientists and engineers | publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers | publication-place=Boston | year=1994 | isbn=978-0-7923-9481-5 | oclc=30700352 | page=}}</ref><ref name="Mankbadi pp. 219–248">{{cite journal | last=Mankbadi | first=Reda R. | title=Dynamics and Control of Coherent Structure in Turbulent Jets | journal=Applied Mechanics Reviews | publisher=ASME International | volume=45 | issue=6 | date=1992-06-01 | issn=0003-6900 | doi=10.1115/1.3121398 | pages=219–248| bibcode=1992ApMRv..45..219M }}</ref> and has led the NASA's development of computational aeroacoustics.<ref name=":23">Mankbadi, R. R. "Computational Aeroacoustics", in ''New Trends in Turbulence''. (d. M. Leisure), Springer, 2001.</ref><ref name="Mankbadi Shih Hixon Stuart 1998 pp. 307–320">{{cite journal | last1=Mankbadi | first1=R. R. | last2=Shih | first2=S. H. | last3=Hixon | first3=D. R. | last4=Stuart | first4=J. T. | last5=Povinelli | first5=L. A. |authorlink4=J. T. Stuart| title=A Surface-Integral Formulation for Jet Noise Prediction Based on the Pressure Signal Alone | journal=Journal of Computational Acoustics | publisher=World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt | volume=06 | issue=3 | year=1998 | issn=0218-396X | doi=10.1142/s0218396x98000211 | pages=307–320}}</ref>

Mankbadi has also developed computation tools such as Hi-Fidelity Large-Eddy-Simulations for simulating turbulence<ref name="Mankbadi 1994 p. ">{{cite book | last=Mankbadi | first=R. R. | title=Transition, turbulence, and noise : theory and applications for scientists and engineers | publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers | publication-place=Boston | year=1994 | isbn=978-0-7923-9481-5 | oclc=30700352 | page=}}</ref><ref name="Mankbadi pp. 219–248"/> and aeroacoustics.<ref name="MANKBADI HAYDER POVINELLI p. ">{{cite conference | last1=MANKBADI | first1=REDA | last2=HAYDER | first2=M. | last3=POVINELLI | first3=LOUIS | title=31st Aerospace Sciences Meeting | chapter=The structure of supersonic jet flow and its radiated sound | publisher=American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | publication-place=Reston, Virginia | date=1993-01-11 | doi=10.2514/6.1993-549 | page=}}</ref><ref name="Mankbadi Shih Hixon Povinelli 2000 pp. 207–215">{{cite journal | last1=Mankbadi | first1=R. R. | last2=Shih | first2=S. H. | last3=Hixon | first3=R. | last4=Povinelli | first4=L. A. | title=Direct Computation of Jet Noise Produced by Large-Scale Axisymmetric Structures | journal=Journal of Propulsion and Power | publisher=American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) | volume=16 | issue=2 | year=2000 | issn=0748-4658 | doi=10.2514/2.5585 | pages=207–215}}</ref>

Mankbadi has served as an associate editor for scholarly journals such as the ''International Journal of Aeroacoustics'',<ref name=":2"/> the ''Journal of Energy Resources'', and the ''Journal of Turbulence''.<ref name=":9"/>

Mankbadi is included in the top 2% of world scientists for career scholarly impact in a study by Stanford University.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ioannidis |first=John P. A. |date=2022-11-03 |title=September 2022 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" |url=https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw |language=en |volume=5 |publisher=Elsevier BV |doi=10.17632/btchxktzyw.5}} @ Digital_Commons_(Elsevier)</ref>

==Memberships and affiliations== *Fellow, NASA Lewis Research Academy, 1990<ref name=":2"/><ref name="ERAU"/><ref name=":12"/> *Elected Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1993<ref>{{cite web |title=ASME Fellows List |url=https://www.asme.org/wwwasmeorg/media/resourcefiles/aboutasme/honors%20awards/fellows/fellows-all-2014.pdf |website=The American Society of Mechanical Engineers |access-date=1 September 2021}}</ref>

==Scholarships== *Fulbright Program, 1986<ref name=":3"/>

==Awards== *Presidential Medal (Egypt) of Science and Arts of the First Order, 1988<ref name=":4"/><ref name=":9"/> *NASA Superior Performance Award, 1990, 1993<ref name=":2"/><ref name="ERAU"/>

==Selected publications== *{{cite journal | last=Mankbadi | first=Reda R. | title=Dynamics and Control of Coherent Structure in Turbulent Jets | journal=Applied Mechanics Reviews | publisher=ASME International | volume=45 | issue=6 | date=1992-06-01 | issn=0003-6900 | doi=10.1115/1.3121398 | pages=219–248| bibcode=1992ApMRv..45..219M }} *{{cite conference | last1=Mankbadi | first1=Reda | last2=Hayder | first2=M. | last3=Povinelli | first3=Louis | title=31st Aerospace Sciences Meeting | chapter=The structure of supersonic jet flow and its radiated sound | publisher=American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | publication-place=Reston, Virginia | date=1993-01-11 | doi=10.2514/6.1993-549 | page=}} *Mankbadi, R. R., Hixon, R., Shih, S. H., & Povinelli, L. A. (1998). Use of linearized Euler equations for supersonic jet noise prediction. ''AIAA Journal'', 36(2), 140-147. *Mankbadi, R., & Liu, J. T. C. (1984). Sound generated aerodynamically revisited: large-scale structures in a turbulent jet as a source of sound. ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London''. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 311(1516), 183-217. *Mankbadi, R. R. (1986). On the interaction between fundamental and subharmonic instability waves in a turbulent round jet. ''Journal of Fluid Mechanics'' 160, 385-419. *{{cite journal | last=Mankbadi | first=Reda R. | title=Multifrequency excited jets | journal=Physics of Fluids A: Fluid Dynamics | publisher=AIP Publishing | volume=3 | issue=4 | year=1991 | issn=0899-8213 | doi=10.1063/1.858121 | pages=595–605| bibcode=1991PhFlA...3..595M }} *Mankbadi, RR, Wu, X, Lee, SS (1993). A critical-layer analysis of the resonant triad in boundary-layer transition: nonlinear interactions. ''Journal of Fluid Mechanics'' 256, 85-106. *Mankbadi, RR (2013). ''Transition, turbulence, and noise: Theory and applications for scientists and engineers''. Springer Science & Business Media.

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