Bryan Schmidt

Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Researches turbulent and unsteady flows from low-speed to hypersonic using advanced imaging methods

https://case.edu/engineering/labs/fpi/

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

2020, Senior Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Research Interests

Fluid Dynamics, Turbulence, Hypersonics, Image Processing

Teaching Interests

Fluid Dynamics, Thermodynamics, Experimental Methods

Professional Leadership and Service

Tuesday, January 1, 2013 - PRESENT, Senior Member American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Publications

Schmidt, B. E., & Sutton, J. (2021). A physical interpretation of regularization for optical flow methods in fluids. Experiments in Fluids, 62 (34), 6.

Schmidt, B. E., & Sutton, J. (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., Hammack, S., Carter, C., & Sutton, J. (2020). High-resolution velocity measurements in turbulent premixed flames using wavelet-based optical flow velocimetry (wOFV). Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, (), 9.

Schmidt, B. E., & Sutton, J. (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.

CV: CV 3-2023.pdf

Affiliated Department Research Areas

Fluids and Thermal Sciences

News About Bryan Schmidt

Jan. 20, 2023

Supersonic science: Case Western Reserve University to conduct 9,000 mph ballistics tests into water tank

Sometime next summer, on the second floor of a research building on the Case Western Reserve University campus, scientists hope to record something the world has never witnessed: The moment of impact when an 18-millimeter-diameter projectile hits a wall of water at 9,000 miles per hour. What will occur in that instant and in the subsequent milliseconds—expected to be captured in detail by high-speed cameras—is a tantalizing mix of “knowns, unknowns and what-if’s,” according to Bryan Schmidt, the project’s lead researcher.

Dec. 7, 2022

Bryan Schmidt receives awards from Office of Naval Research, Air Force Office of Scientific Research and National Science Foundation

From an early age, Bryan Schmidt was fascinated by things that went fast. Now an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering who is also an alumnus of the department, Schmidt has received two awards that will help bring those interests to life in his lab through hypersonic flight experiments.

Jul. 30, 2021

5 things to know about… air travel

Assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering Bryan Schmidt shares some top air travel facts

Bryan Schmidt In the News

NASA Glenn is a key partner with airlines in developing advances in flight

Bryan Schmidt, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, gave insight into how “radically different designs” of airplanes will begin to come into play in the next few decades, including on some of the aircraft being worked on at NASA Glenn in Cleveland. "Right now, a passenger airplane is basically like a big tube with wings stuck on it," Schmidt said. "With composite materials, we don't have to make airplanes like that anymore.

The Navy is about to shoot a projectile at 9,000 mph. No one knows what will happen.

Bryan Schmidt, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, discussed his upcoming experiment that will shoot a projectile into a wall of water twice as fast as ever researched before.