Assistant Professor Carlos PantanoMechSE Assistant Professor Carlos Pantano has been elected Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, in honor of his outstanding accomplishments and contributions to engineering.
Written by By William Bowman
Assistant Professor Carlos Pantano
MechSE Assistant Professor Carlos Pantano has been elected Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, in honor of his outstanding accomplishments and contributions to engineering.
Pantano has been a member of the MechSE faculty at Illinois since 2006. He has earned a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sevilla in Spain, a master’s degree in Applied Mathematics from L’École Centrale in France, and a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph. D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of California at San Diego.
His area of research is turbulent flows with an emphasis on combustion and fluid-structure interaction. He has led research on computational fluid dynamics, turbulence modeling, combustion, numerical methods, and statistical modeling, with numerous publications on reacting flows and thermal hydraulic simulations. The ultimate goal of his research team is to pioneer an accurate way to compute turbulence and chemical interactions in hydrocarbon reactions without needing excessive calculations for the intricate chemical details. He is also actively working on numerical methods for embedded representations of complex geometrical objects.
Before joining the department, Pantano was a Senior Research Fellow, Senior Post Doctoral Fellow in Aeronautics, and a Lecturer in Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories at the California Institute of Technology.
Currently, he is also a Faculty Affiliate of the Department of Computational Science and Engineering at Illinois. Pantano is an active member of SIAM, APS, and The Combustion Institute.