Professor Jonathan FreundProfessor Jonathan B. Freund has been elected Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
The rank of Associate Fellow in the AIAA is for “persons who have done work of outstanding merit or have otherwise made outstanding contributions to the arts, sciences, or technology of aeronautics or astronautics.”
Written by By Meredith Staub
Professor Jonathan Freund
Professor Jonathan B. Freund has been elected Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
The rank of Associate Fellow in the AIAA is for “persons who have done work of outstanding merit or have otherwise made outstanding contributions to the arts, sciences, or technology of aeronautics or astronautics.”
Freund has been a member of the faculty at UIUC since 2001, and is a professor of Mechanical Engineering and an associate professor of Aerospace Engineering and Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He also is a computer science affiliate and a part-time faculty member of the Beckman Institute. Before coming to UIUC, he was Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at University of California at Los Angeles. He has earned a bachelor’s (1991), a master’s (1992), and a PhD (1998) in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
His research focuses on aerodynamic sound, compressible turbulence, numerical methods, large-scale parallel computing, fluid dynamics, bioengineering, molecular dynamics simulation of nanometer scale flows, and heat transfer in solids. His research group has done work on ion bombardment of silicon, studies in shock-wave lithotripsy, and numerical methods for aeroacoustics.
Freund’s other honors and awards include: Kritzer Faculty Scholar, Xerox Award for Faculty Research, Francois Frenkiel Award from the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, UIUC "Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by Their Students" (2004, 2008, 2009), Engineering Council Award for Excellence in Advising, and APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Gallery of Fluid Motion. He was also recently named a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He has been an associate editor of the Physics of Fluids journal since 2010 and is serving on the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics Editorial Committee.