Research Expertise

•	Experimental fluid mechanics
•	Hydrodynamic instabilities including Richtmyer-Meshkov and Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities
•	Turbulent mixing
•	Optical flow diagnostics
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Education

•	Ph.D.	:	Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 1986
•	M.S.	:	Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 1982
•	B.S.	:	Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 1980
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Courses Taught  (since 2000)

•	AME 323	:	Gasdynamics
•	AME 400	:	Senior Mechanical Lab
•	AME 401	:	Senior Aerospace Lab
•	AME 413a/b	:	Mechanical Engineering Design Lab [supervised projects]
•	AME 425	:	Aerospace Propulsion
•	AME 433	:	Intermediate Fluid Mechanics
•	AME 495s	:	Senior Colloquium
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Employment

•	1990-date	:	Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Arizona: Assistant Professor 1990-96; Associate Professor 1996-2005; Professor 2005-date
•	1986-89	:	California Institute of Technology: Research Fellow (1989); Weizmann Fellow (1986-89)
•	1980-86	:	University of California, Los Angeles: Postgraduate Research Engineer (1983-86); Research Assistant (1980-83)
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Honors and Awards

•	Excellence at the Student Interface Award, College of Engineering and Mines, University of Arizona, 1994, 2005
•	Visiting Fellowship, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, 7/1/97-12/31/97
•	Francois Frenkiel Award for Fluid Mechanics, American Physical Society, 1994
•	Most Supportive Junior Faculty Member, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona 1993 and 1994
•	Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1990
•	Weizmann Postdoctoral Fellowship, Caltech, 1986-1988
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Professional Societies

•	ASME	:	The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
•	APS	:	The American Physical Society
•	AIAA	:	The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Publications  (since 2000)

•	Chapman, P. R. and Jacobs, J. W., Experiments on the Three-Dimensional Incompressible Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability, Phys. Fluids 18:Paper 074101, 2006.
•	Jacobs, J. W. and Dalziel, S. B., Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Complex Stratifications, J. Fluid Mech. 542, 251-279, 2005.
•	Jacobs, J. W. and Krivets, V. V., Experiments on the Late-Time Development of Single-Mode Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability, Phys. Fluids 17:Paper 034105, 2005.
•	Likhachev, O. A. and Jacobs, J. W. , A Vortex Model for Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability Accounting for Finite Atwood Number, Phys. Fluids 17:Paper 031704, 2005.
•	Niederhaus, C. E. and Jacobs, J. W., Experimental Study of Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability in Microgravity, Annals NY Acad. Sci. 1027:403, 2004.
•	Niederhaus, C. E. and Jacobs, J. W., Experimental Study of the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability of Incompressible Flows, J. Fluid Mech. 485:243-277, 2003.
•	Jacobs, J. W. and Krivets, V. V., PLIF Flow Visualization of the Nonlinear Development and Transition to Turbulence of Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability, Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Shock Waves (Frank K. Lu, Ed.), pp. 1183-1189, University of Texas at Arlington, 2002.
•	Collins, B. D. and Jacobs, J. W., PLIF Flow Visualization and Measurements of the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability of an Air/SF6 Interface, J. Fluid Mech. 464:113-136, 2002.
•	Jacobs, J.W., and Krivets, V.V., Experimental Investigation of Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability after a Second Interaction with a Reflected Shock Wave, Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing, Pasadena, California, December 2001.
•	Niederhaus, C.E., and Jacobs, J.W. Single-Mode Incompressible Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability Experiments, Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on the Physics of Compressible Turbulent Mixing, Pasadena, California, December 2001.
•	Waddell, J.T., Niederhaus, C.E., and Jacobs, J.W., Experimental Study of Rayleigh-Taylor Instability: Low Atwood number Liquid Systems with Single-Mode Initial Perturbations, Phys. Fluids 13:1263-1273, 2001.
•	Dalziel, S. B. and Jacobs, J. W., Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Complex Stratifications, Proc. Fifth International Symposium on Stratified Flows, Vancouver, British Columbia, pp. 489-494, 2000.
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Research Grants  (since 2000)

•	An Experimental Study of the Effects of Initial Conditions on the Turbulent Development of Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov Instabilities, DOE/NNSA, 3/1/07-2/28/10.
•	An Experimental Study of Rayleigh-Taylor Instability and the Reacceleration of Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability, Lawrence Livermore National Lab., 4/1/2006-3/31/2009.
•	Mix Evolution Experimental Investigation, Los Alamos National Lab., 8/15/05-8/14/08.
•	Hydrodynamic Instability Induced by Multi-Acceleration, US-Israel Binational Sci. Found., 6/1/04-5/31/07.
•	An Experimental Study of the Turbulent Development of Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov Instabilities, DOE, 2/15/04-2/14/07.
•	An Experimental Study of Multimode and Three-Dimensional Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability, Lawrence Livermore National Lab., 3/1/03-3/3/106.
•	Experimental Investigation of Incompressible Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability, NASA, 1/18/02-11/30/05.
•	Experimental Study of Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability, Lawrence Livermore National Lab., 3/7/00-2/28/03.
•	An Experimental Study of Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability in Low Gravity, NASA, 5/1/96-4/30/01.
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