Yaakov TIMNAT
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
b. Italy, 1923. M.Sc., Hebrew University, 1947. Ph.D. Hebrew University,
1959. Cornell University 1960-1961. California Inst. of Technology, 1961-1962.
Senior Res. Officer, Armament Development Authority, 1951-1965. Queen Mary
College, London University, 1971-1972. Princeton University 1978-1979.
Delft Technical University 1984-1985 and 1991-1992. At Technion since 1965.
Head of Department, 1970-1971. Professor since 1976. Head of Space Research
Institute 1985-1989. Arizona State University, 1990-1991.
MAIN INTERESTS
Combustion and detonation research, rocket and jet propulsion, gasdynamic
lasers, shock tube studies of high temperature gases, low gravity combustion,
space research.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
"Detonation of nitromethane", J. Chem. Phys., 24, 1956, pp.
1074-1077 (with G. Nahmani).
"Electron density and ionization rate in thermally ionized gases produced
by medium strength shock waves", J. Fluid Mech., 6, 1959,
pp. 449-461 (with W. Low).
"Relaxation and output calculations for a gas dynamic laser", Int.
Symp. Gasdynamics and Chemical Lasers, Koln, 1976, pp. 535-556, (with
J. Stricker and K. Waichman).
"The self-adjustment mechanism model of scramjet combustors", 19th
Symposium (Int.) on Combustion, Haifa 1982, pp. 549-556 (with Y. Ramaty
and E. Spiegler).
"Combustion of aluminium and boron slurry fuels in a dump combustor",
19th Symposium (Int.) on Combustion, Haifa 1982, pp. 557-563 (with
J. Peleg).
"Opposed-flow combustion of pulverized coal", Comb. Flame, 61,
1985, pp. 119-130 (with Z. Hazanov and Y. Goldman).
"Diagnostic techniques for propulsion systems", Progress in Aerospace
Sciences, 26, 1989, pp. 153-156.
"The use of self-propagating high-temperature synthesis to obtain high-temperature
semi- conductors", Prospectives in Energy, 2, 1992-93, pp.
297-302 (with V. Rosenband).
BOOKS
Advanced Chemical Rocket Propulsion, Academic Press, 1987, 286 p.
Advanced Airbreathing Propulsion, Orbit Book Co., 1995.
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E-mail: aer8001@tx.technion.ac.il