Jacob (Yaakov) COHEN

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

b. Israel. B.Sc. Tel Aviv Univ., 1980. M.Sc. Tel Aviv Univ., 1982. Ph.D. Univ. of Arizona, 1986. Bantrell Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT, 1987. Lady Davis Post-Doctoral Fellow Technion 1988. Lecturer at the Technion 1989. Senior Lecturer at the Technion 1992. Tenure since Feb. 1995. Associate Professor since 1998.

MAIN INTERESTS

Experimental and theoretical fluid mechanics with emphasis on transitional and fully turbulent flows, hydrodynamic and thermodynamic instabilities.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

"The evolution of instabilities in the axisymmetric jet. Part I: The linear growth of disturbances near the nozzle", J. Fluid Mech., 176, 1987, pp. 191-219 (with I. Wygnanski).

"The evolution of instabilities in the axisymmetric jet. Part II: The flow resulting from the interaction between two waves", J. Fluid Mech., 176, 1987, pp. 221-235 (with I. Wygnanski).

"On the evolution of a wave packet in a laminar boundary layer", J. Fluid Mech., 225, 1991, pp. 575-606 (with S.B. Breuer and J.H. Haritonidis).

"Laminar-turbulent transition of wall jet flows subjected to blowing or suction", Phys. of Fluids A, 4, 2, 1992, pp. 283-289 (with M. Amitay and B.J. Bayly).

"Mean flow distortion due to finite amplitude instability waves in a plane turbulent wake", Phys. of Fluids, 6, 3, 1994, pp. 1315-1322, (with B. Marasli and V. Levinski).

"The initial evolution of a wave-packet in a laminar boundary layer", Phys. of Fluids, 6, 3, 1994, pp. 1133-1143.

"The evolution of a localized vortex disturbance in external shear flows. Part 1. Theoretical considerations and preliminary experimental results", J. Fluid Mech., 289, 1995, pp. 159-177 (with V. Levinski).

"Convective and absolute instabilities of a buoyancy-induced flow in a thermally stratified medium", Phys. of Fluids, 8, 4, 1996, pp. 971-977 (with L. Krizhevsky and J. Tanny).

"Transition in two-dimensional plane wall-jet subjected to blowing and suction", J. Fluid Mech., 344, 1997, pp. 67-94 (with M. Amitay).

"The evolution of a localized vortex disturbance in external shear flows. Part 2: Comparison with experiments in rotating shear flows", J. Fluid Mech., 379, 1999, pp. 351-380 (with E. Malkiel and V. Levinski).
 


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