Jason G. Oakley Assistant Scientist, Lecturer Address/E-mail Program Affiliations Duties and Responsibilities

Contact Information

739 Engineering Research Building 1500 Engineering Drive Madison, WI 53706-1687

Tel: 608/263-5295 Fax: 608/263-7451 E-mail: oakley@engr.wisc.edu

Program Affiliations

• Engineering Physics
• Fusion Technology Institute
• Mechanical Engineering
• Wisconsin Institute of Nuclear Systems
• Wisconsin Shock Tube

Duties and Responsibilities

• Experimental investigation of hydrodynamic instabilities: shock-induced Richtmyer-Meshkov (gas-gas, membrane, and soap film interfaces), incompressible Rayleigh-Taylor, and magenetorheological Rayleigh-Taylor.
• Computational fluid dynamics of hydrodynamic instabilites.
• Shock refraction studies, experimental and numerical.
• Teaching undergraduate fluid mechanics and heat transfer.