Bryan Schmidt

Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Researches turbulent and unsteady flows from low-speed to hypersonic using advanced imaging methods

Flow Physics and Imaging Lab

Office: 615B Glennan Phone Number: (216) 368-2943 Email: bryan.e.schmidt@case.edu

Education

Ph.D., Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology, 2016
M.S., Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology, 2012
B.S., Aerospace Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 2011

Awards and Recognitions

2023, Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award, AFOSR
2023, Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award, ONR
2022, Trailblazer R21 Award, NIH
2020, Senior Member, AIAA

Research Interests

Fluid Dynamics, Turbulence, Hypersonics, Image Processing

Teaching Interests

Fluid Dynamics, Thermodynamics, Experimental Methods

Professional Leadership and Service

Jan. 1, 2013 - PRESENT, Senior Member American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Publications

Schmidt, B. E., & Sutton, J. E. (2021). A physical interpretation of regularization for optical flow methods in fluids. Experiments in Fluids, 62 (34), 6.
Schmidt, B. E., & Sutton, J. E. (2020). Evaluation of gas‑ and particle‑phase separation methods for velocity measurements in turbulent multiphase fows. Experiments in Fluids, 61 (244), 19.
Schmidt, B. E., Skiba, A. E., Hammack, S. E., Carter, C. E., & Sutton, J. E. (2020). High-resolution velocity measurements in turbulent premixed flames using wavelet-based optical flow velocimetry (wOFV). Proceedings of the Combustion Institute.
Schmidt, B. E., & Sutton, J. E. (2020). Improvements in the accuracy of wavelet‑based optical flow velocimetry (wOFV) using an efficient and physically based implementation of velocity regularization. Experiments in Fluids, 61 (32), 17.