Pasquale ‘PC’ Cinnella, Ph.D., P.E.

Pasquale Cinnella received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1989 and joined the Aerospace Engineering faculty in 1990.

• Physical Gas Dynamics
• Compressible Aerodynamics
• Fluid Mechanics
• Engineering Mechanics
• Computational Fluid Dynamics

• ASE 3333 Aerothermodynamics
• ASE 4343 Compressible Aerody
• EM 2413 Engineering Mechanics I
• EM 2433 Engineering Mechanics II
• EM 3313 Fluid Mechanics

• ASE 8363 Comp Heat Transfer
• ASE 8423 Computational Fluid Dynamics II
• ASE 8323 Advanced Compressible Aerodynamics II

• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Hypersonic Gas Dynamics
• Combustion Simulations

• Waterways Experiment Station
• Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
• NASA Stennis
• National Science Foundation
• Lockheed-Martin, Denver, CO
• NASA Marshall
• US Air Force
• US Army Space and Missile Command

• Cinnella, P., and Cox, C. F., "Modern Computational Techniques for 3D Hypersonic Flows," in Molecular Physics and Hypersonic Flows, Ed. M. Capitelli, pp. 543-560, Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 1996.
• Cinnella, P., and Cox, C. F., "Computational Reacting Flow," in The Computer Science and Engineering Handbook, Ed. A. B. Tucker, Jr., pp. 892-911, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1996.
• Carino, R. L., Cox, C. F., Zhu, J., and Cinnella, P., "On Building a Parallel Version of a 'Real Gas' Flow Solver," in Nonlinear Problems in Aviation and Aerospace, Ed. S. Sivasundaram, Vol. 11, pp. 195-208, Gordon and Breach, The Netherlands, 2000.

• Wu, J., Tang, L., Luke, E.A., Tong, X.-L., and Cinnella, P., "Comprehensive Numerical Study of Jet-Flow Impingement over Flat Plates," Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 357-366, 2002.
• Liu, Q.Y., Luke, E.A., and Cinnella, P., "Coupling Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Solvers for Multidisciplinary Simulations," Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 417-427, 2005.
• Luke, E.A., and Cinnella, P., "Numerical simulations of mixtures of fluids using upwind algorithms," Computers and Fluids, Vol. 36, pp. 1547-1566, 2007.

• Cinnella, P. and Gaiaschi, P., "Enhanced Models for Mixtures of Fluids in Chemical Equilibrium at High Pressures," Paper No. 2007-4160, 37th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, 2007.
• Cinnella, P., Bridges, D.H., and Vizzini, A.J., "Designing a Self-Assessment Process for ABET Accreditation," Paper No. 2007-0300, 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, 2007.
• Cinnella, P., and Gaiaschi, P., “Simulations of Mixtures of Fluids in Chemical Equilibrium at High Pressures” Paper No. 2009-4037, 39th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, 2009.
• Ballard, J.R., Cinnella, P., and Howington, S.E., “A Heat and Fluid Transport Simulation of a Soil-Root-Stem System,” Paper No. 2009-4042, 39th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, 2009.
• Ballard, J. R., Howington, S.E., Cinnella, P., and Smith, J. A., “Simulated Seasonal Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Soil Moisture, Temperature, and Net Radiation in a Deciduous Forest,” IGARSS 2011 Conference, Vancouver CA, 2011.

• Hearing Distinguished Professor, MSU, 1999/2000
• Research Unit Award for Outstanding Contribution in Research, Medallion Certificate-Southeastern Section ASEE, 1996
• Outstanding Research Paper in the College of Engineering, Mississippi State University, 1995
• Outstanding Research Paper in the College of Engineering, Mississippi State University, 1993

• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Associate Fellow
• American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE)
• Society for Industrial Applied Mathematics (SIAM)