Phil Ligrani

Phil Ligrani
Born
Phillip Meredith Ligrani

Cheyenne, Wyoming
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineMechanical engineering
WebsiteLigrani.com

Phillip Meredith Ligrani is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.[1] He is also the Eminent Scholar in Propulsion within the Propulsion Research Center.

Career

Ligrani was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming. After receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, he pursued his graduate studies at Stanford University where he received his master's degree and his PhD.[2] His doctoral dissertation was entitled The thermal and hydrodynamic behaviour of thick, roughwall, turbulent boundary layers.[3] After completing his PhD he spent several years in Europe, first in a temporary faculty position at the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics in Belgium and then as a visiting senior research fellow at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London. He later returned to the United States, where he was an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. He then joined the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Utah and became a full professor there several years later.

From 2006 through 2009 Ligrani was the Donald Schultz Professor of Turbomachinery in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. During that time he also served as the director of Oxford's Rolls-Royce UTC (University Technology Centre) in Heat Transfer and Aerodynamics and as professorial fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford. He returned to the US in 2010, when he was appointed to the Oliver L. Parks Endowed Chair at Saint Louis University's Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology.[4][5][6][2]

In September 2014 Ligrani was appointed eminent scholar in propulsion and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.[7]

Research

Ligrani has published extensively in the field of propulsion and fluid dynamics. His research has focused on turbomachinery, convective heat transfer, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic flows, fluid mechanics, microfluidics, fractionation and separation science.[6] As of 2026, he has authored or co-authored more than 239 publications in scientific journals and nine book chapters and holds three active patents.[8] He has also served as a consultant to various government agencies and aerospace companies on a range of projects related to aerospace propulsion and energy conversion. His current Google Scholar H-INDEX is 60 and his current SCOPUS H-INDEX is 54. Academic awards include the ASME Henry R. Worthington Medal in 2024, the AIAA Hermann Oberth Award in 2020, and the University of Alabama in Huntsville Distinguished Research Award for Excellence in 2019.

References

  1. ^ University of Alabama Huntsville. Faculty biography: Phillip Ligrani, PhD
  2. ^ a b LaChance, Diana (17 February 2015). "Professor's illustrious career leads to research innovations and broadened horizons for students". University of Alabama in Huntsville
  3. ^ OCLC 85970063
  4. ^ "New Parks Endowed Chair Seeks to Enhance SLU's Reputation Internationally". Saint Louis University. 2011-02-22. Archived from the original on 2012-06-11. Retrieved 2013-05-10.
  5. ^ "Professional Notes". Saint Louis University. 2011-01-19. Retrieved 2013-05-10.
  6. ^ a b "Parks Today" (PDF). Saint Louis University's Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology. Winter 2010. Retrieved 2013-05-10.
  7. ^ "COE Welcomes Professor Phillip Ligrani". University of Alabama Huntsville. 2014-07-28.
  8. ^ Rotary centrifugal and viscous pumps US 20070059156; Osmotically Driven Dispense Pump and Related Components for Use in High Pressure Applications US 20080269725; Aspherical dimples for heat transfer surfaces and method US 20060099073
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