PHONE:
(662) 325.2068/7288

EMAIL:
dst@ae.msstate.edu

David Thompson received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University in 1987. He joined the Aerospace Engineering faculty in 2003 after four years as a member of the research faculty at the ERC.

• Mechanics
• Aerodynamics
  

Courses Taught:

Undergraduate

• Fluid Mechanics (EM 3313)

Areas of Research:

• Aircraft icing
• Feature mining
• Mesh generation

Funding Agencies:

• NASA Glenn Research Center
• National Science Foundation
• Air Force Research Laboratory
• Army Research Office

Books/Book Chapter:

• R. Machiraju, S. Parthasarathy, J. Wilkins, D. Thompson, B. Gatlin, D. Richie, T. Choy, M. Jiang, S. Mehta, M. Coatney, and S. Barr, "Mining of Complex Evolutionary Phenomena," Next Generation Data Mining, H. Kargupta and A. Joshi, eds, MIT Press (to appear).
• B. Nakshatrala, D. Thompson, and R. Machiraju, "Ranked Representation of Vector Fields," DataVisualization: The State of the Art, F. Post, G. Neilsen, and G.-P. Bonneau, eds, Springer Verlag, 2002.
• R. Machiraju, J. Fowler, D. Thompson, Will Schroeder, and B. K. Soni, "EVITA - Efficient Visualization and Interrogation of Tera-Scale Data," Data Mining for Scientific and Engineering Applications, pp. 257-279, R. L. Grossman, et. al, eds, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.

Select Journal Publications:

• R. P. Koomullil, D. S. Thompson, and B. K. Soni, "Iced Airfoil Simulation using Generalized Grids," App. Num. Math. (to appear).
• D. Thompson, R. Machiraju, M.Jiang, J. Nair, G. Craciun, and S. Venkata, "Physics-Based Feature Mining for Large Data Exploration," IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 4, July-August, 2002, pp. 22-30.
• D. S. Thompson and B. K. Soni, "Semistructured Grid Generation in Three Dimensions using a Parabolic Marching Scheme," AIAA J., Vol. 40, No. 2, February, 2002, pp. 391-393.
• B. K. Soni, R. Koomullil, D. S. Thompson, and H. Thornburg, "Solution Adaptive Grid Strategies Based on Point Redistribution," Comp. Meth. App. Mech. Eng., Vol. 189, 2000, pp. 1183-1204.
  

Conference Presentations/Proceedings:

• Y. Kim, R. Machiraju, and D. Thompson, "Rough Surface Modeling Using Surface Growth," Fifth International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications, Seoul, Korea, May 12-16, 2003 (to appear).
• M. Jiang, T.-S. Choy, S. Mehta, M. Coatney, S. Barr, K. Hazzard, D. Richie, S. Parthasarathy, R. Machiraju, D. Thompson, J. Wilkins, and B. Gatlin, "Feature Mining Algorithms for Scientific Data," Third SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, San Francisco, CA, May 1-3, 2003 (to appear).
• D. S. Thompson and B. K. Soni, "ICEG2D: A Software Package for Ice Accretion Prediction," Paper 2003-1070 (available on CD), AIAA 41st Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 6-9, 2003.
• M. Jiang, R. Machiraju, and D. Thompson, "Geometric Verification of Features in Flow Fields," Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2002, Boston, MA, pp. 307-314, October 7-November 1, 2002.

Honors and Awards:

• Sigma Gamma Tau
• Tau Beta Pi
• Phi Kappa Phi
• NASA "Turning Goals into Reality" (2001)

Professional Memberships:

• Member, American Society for Engineering Education
• Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
• Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Member, International Society of Grid Generation