Phone: (04) 829-3240
Email: igil;aerodyne.technion.ac.il
b. 1960. B.Sc. Technion, 1980. M.Sc. Technion, 1985, D.Sc. Technion, 1989. 26 years experience as a flight-test engineer at IAF Flight Test Center.
Aerodynamic theory of wings in unsteady motion. Asymptotic wing theories. Flight mechanics (theoretical and experimental). Helicopter dynamics. Basic fluid mechanics and transport phenomena. Animals aero- and hydro-dynamics.
“Stokes law for a sphere in a transversely-isotropic fluid. The axisymmetric case,” Stability and Applied Analysis of Continuous Media, 2, 4, 1993, pp. 417-444 (with H. Brenner)
“Mass transport and reaction in Taylor-vortex flows with entrained catalytic particles: Applications to a novel class of immobilized enzyme biochemical reactors,” Philosophical Trans. of the Royal Society of London, Series A, 345, 1993, pp. 259-294 (with H. Brenner, C.M.V. Moore and C.L. Cooney)
“Asymptotic theory of high-aspect-ratio arched wings in steady incompressible flow,” J. of Fluid Mechanics, 303, 1995, pp. 367-377
“Asymptotic theory of high-aspect-ratio arched and curved wings in steady incompressible flow,” Quarterly J. of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics 52 2, 1998, pp. 241-262
“Asymptotic aerodynamic theory of rotary wings in axial flight,” SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 59 (4), 1999, pp. 1371-1412 (with Y. A. Iosilevskii and A. Rosen)
“Effect of a spherical explosion upon the flight path and spatial orientation of a projectile,” International Journal of Impact Engineering 25, 2001, pp. 187-191 (with N. Farber)
“Constant lift coefficient turns,” AIAA Journal of Aircraft 42 (6), 2005, 1471-1478
“Finite size vortices in the wake of an accelerated bent lamina,” Fluid Dynamics Research 37 (5), 2005, pp 341-356
“Control with trim tabs and history-dependant aerodynamic forces,” Journal of Fluids and Structures 23 (3), 2007, 365-389
“Speed limit on swimming of fish and cetaceans,” Journal of the Royal Society Interface 5 (20), 2008, pp. 329-338 (with D. Weihs)
“Asymptotic theory of an oscillating wing section in weak ground effect,” European Journal of Mechanics – B/Fluids 27 (4), 2008, pp. 477-490
“Hydrodynamics of sailing of the Portuguese man-of-war Physalia physalis,” Journal of the Royal Society Interface 6 (36), 2009, pp. 613-626
(with D. Weihs)