Department of Mechanical Engineering

Terry Meyer

Assistant Professor
2030 Black Engineering Bldg.
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
Phone: 515-294-1805
Fax: 515-294-3261
E-mail: trm@iastate.edu

Education
Univ. of Minnesota, BS, Mechanical Engineering, 1993
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, MS, Mech. Engineering, 1997
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, PhD, Mech. Engineering, 2001

Areas of Interest
Laser imaging and spectroscopy for reacting fluid flow and sprays, biorenewable fuels, combustion, power and propulsion, gas-turbines, scramjets, hypersonic vehicles, and internal combustion engines.

Links
Dr. Meyer is a Research Associate of the DOE Ames Laboratory and is the faculty advisor for the Iowa State Chapter of Pi Tau Sigma, a nationwide Mechanical Engineering Honorary Society. An article on his work recently appeared in a number of online daily news services, including Laser Focus World. For more information about his work, please see his extended CV. 

Biosketch
Dr. Meyer completed his doctoral work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000, having held graduate fellowships from the National Science Foundation and Ford Foundation, as well as being selected for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Graduate Award in Fluid Dynamics.  His dissertation work focused on laser techniques for measuring turbulent mixing at the molecular scale, and he subsequently focused on the study of combusting flows at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH. 

Dr. Meyer’s scientific accomplishments are documented in 30 peer-reviewed journal articles published or in press, with a personal citation impact factor of 3.  His publications include works in Combustion and Flame, the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, and Applied Physics Letters.  He has also co-authored over 50 conference papers and submitted several provisional patent applications.  Dr. Meyer has been recognized as an Associate Fellow of the AIAA, serves on several national committees, and has chaired the Ohio Valley Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.  He also helped to found the Dayton Engineering Sciences Symposium, serving as Co-Chair in 2006, and he has recently been elected as the next General Co-Chair for the Optical Society of America’s Conference on Laser Applications to Chemical, Security, and Environmental Analysis, 2010.

Dr. Meyer currently serves as the Director of the Department of Mechanical Engineering’s Clean Energy Technologies Program.  His research at Iowa State University is currently funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, NASA, Conoco-Phillips, and the Grow Iowa Values Fund.  He currently advises five graduate students and one post-doctoral researcher for studies of fundamental reacting fluid dynamics, two-phase flows, ultrafast laser spectroscopy, and power/propulsion devices. 


Selected Publications

  1. J.R. Gord, T.R. Meyer, and S. Roy, “Applications of Ultrafast Lasers for Optical Measurements in Combusting Flows,” Ann. Rev. Anyl. Chem. (In press), 2008.
  2. N. Jiang, W.R. Lempert, M.N. Slipchekno, J.D. Miller, T.R. Meyer, and J.R. Gord, “High-Power UV Lasers: Tunable Ultraviolet Burst-Mode Laser System Produces High-Energy Pulses,” Laser Focus World, Vol. 44, No. 8, pp. 79-83, Aug. 2008.
  3. N. Jiang, W.R. Lempert, G.L. Switzer, T.R. Meyer, and J.R. Gord, “A Narrow Linewidth Megahertz-Repetition-Rate Optical Parametric Oscillator for High-Speed Flow and Combustion Diagnostics,” Appl. Opt., Vol. 47, pp. 64-71, 2008.
  4. T.R. Meyer, S. Roy, and J.R. Gord, “Improving Signal-to-Interference Ratio in Rich Hydrocarbon-Air Flames Using Picosecond Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering,” Appl. Spectr., Vol. 61, No. 11, pp. 1135-1140, 2007 (also cover feature, p. 248A).
  5. E. Corporan, M.J. DeWitt, V. Belovich, R. Pawlik, A.C. Lynch, J.R. Gord, and T.R. Meyer, “Emissions Studies of a Turbine Engine and Research Combustor Burning a Natural Gas-Derived Fischer-Tropsch Jet Fuel,” Energy and Fuels, Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 2615-2626, 2007.
  6. T.R. Meyer, G.B. King, M. Gluesenkamp, and J.R. Gord, “High-Speed Measurement of Temperature and Lifetime-Corrected OH Laser-Induced Fluorescence in Unsteady Flames,” Opt. Lett., Vol. 32, No. 16, pp. 2221-2223, 2007.
  7. R.P. Lucht, S. Roy, T.R. Meyer, and J.R. Gord, “Femtosecond Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Measurement of Gas Temperatures from Frequency-Spread Dephasing of the Raman Coherence,” Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 89, pp. (251112) 1-3, 2006.
  8. T.R. Meyer, J.C. Dutton, and R.P. Lucht, “Coherent Structures and Turbulent Molecular Mixing in Gaseous Planar Shear Layers,” J. Fluid Mech., Vol. 558, pp. 179-205, 2006.
  9. D. Sedarsky, M. Paciaroni, M.A. Linne, J.R. Gord, and T.R. Meyer, “Velocity Imaging for the Liquid-Gas Interface in the Near Field of an Atomizing Spray: Proof of Concept,” Opt. Lett., Vol. 31, No. 7, pp. 906-908, 2006.
  10. S. Roy, T.R. Meyer, and J.R. Gord, “Time-Resolved Dynamics of Resonant and Nonresonant Broadband Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Signals,” Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 88, No. 1, pp. (264103) 1-3, 2005.
  11. T.R. Meyer, S. Roy, T.N. Anderson, R. Barron-Jimenez, R.P. Lucht, and J.R. Gord, “10-kHz Detection of CO2 at 4.5 microns Using Diode-Laser-Based Difference-Frequency Generation,” Opt. Lett., Vol. 30, No. 22, pp. 3087-3089, 2005.
  12. T.R. Meyer, S. Roy, T.N. Anderson, J.D. Miller, V.R. Katta, R.P. Lucht, and J.R. Gord, “Measurements of Temperature and OH Mole Fraction Up to 20 kHz by Using a Diode-Laser-Based UV Absorption Sensor,” Appl. Opt., Vol. 44, No. 31, pp. 6729-6740, 2005.
  13. M.A. Linne, M. Paciaroni, J.R. Gord, and T.R. Meyer, “Ballistic Imaging of the Liquid Core for a Steady Jet in Crossflow,” Appl. Opt., Vol. 44, No. 31, pp. 6627-6634, 2005.
  14. T.R. Meyer, S. Roy, R.P. Lucht, and J.R. Gord, “Dual-pump dual-broadband CARS for exhaust-gas temperature and CO2-O2-N2 mole-fraction measurements in model gas-turbine combustors,” Combust. Flame, Vol. 142, No. 1-2, pp. 52-61, 2005.