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January 15, 1999 Communication for the information technology age Astrogram — 1
The Ames
Ames Scientists Recognized
Two Ames employees elected Fellows of the AIAA
Dr. Dallas Denery, deputy chief of the mates, and the computational estimation looking forward to helping Ames continue
aviation systems research, technology and of linear systems.” this tradition in the future,” he added.
simulation division, Code AF, and Dr. Daniel “Dr. Reda is currently recognized na- During his career, Reda has made
Reda, senior research scientist in the experi- tionally and internationally for his pioneer- notable and valuable contributions toward
mental physics branch, Code AIP, have ing research on the use of liquid crystal advancing the state-of-the-art in fluid me-
been elected Fellows of the American Insti- coatings for the visualization and measure- chanics, aerothermodynamics and aerody-
tute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). ment of continuous surface shear-stress namic measurement technologies. He is
“AIAA Fellows are persons of distinction vector distributions,” McDonald noted. the world’s leading authority on the use of
who have made notable and valuable con- “No such capability ex- liquid crystal coat-
tributions to the arts, sciences, or technol- isted prior to this work, ings for the visual-
ogy of aeronautics or astronautics,” noted and the impact of his ization and mea-
AIAA President Sam Iacobellis in announc- new, patented method- surement of con-
ing their selection for this prestigious award. ologies on NASA, indus- tinuous surface
Only one Fellow is elected each year for try and university pro- shear stress vector
every one thousand members of the insti- grams is substantial.” distributions, hold-
tute. During his career, ing patents on both
Denery and Reda, who are a part of 34 Denery devised a method methodologies.
Honorary Fellows and Fellows elected for to retrofit an automated He is also a na-
1999, will be confirmed as AIAA Fellows at two-segment approach tionally and inter-
the Global Air and Space ‘99 International to the current jet trans- nationally recog-
Business Forum and Exhibition, May 3-5 at port fleet to provide re- nized authority in
the Hyatt Regency Crystal City Hotel in lief of the national prob- the field of bound-
Arlington, VA. Both men will be honored at lem of aircraft noise. He ary layer transition
the AIAA’s annual Fellows Dinner and Re- also developed and led a to turbulence in su-
ception on May 4 and at the AIAA’s Honors program which flight- personic and hyper-
Night Banquet on May 5. demonstrated the first sonic flows. Reda is
Denery and Reda were nominated for fully integrated digital photo by Tom Trower widely published,
the award by Ames Center Director Dr. avionics system for gen- Dr. Dallas Denery having authored 73
Henry McDonald. Reda was nominated for eral aviation. publications so far,
his development of the shear-sensitive liq- In recent years, 60 of these as the
uid crystal coating Denery developed an lead or sole author. He holds four patents
method for mea- agency program in aircraft on aerodynamic measurement techniques,
surement of shear automation that led to two as the sole inventor.
stress vector distri- three new programs: au- Reda’s primary research focus in the
butions, and for tomation for air traffic con- 1990s involved the development of a coat-
pioneering re- trol, automated nap-of- ing and imaging technique for the full-
search on bound- the-earth and differential surface visualization and measurement of
ary layer transition global positioning systems continuous shear stress vector distributions,
in supersonic and (GPS). One program, the a previously non-existent capability. He
hypersonic flight. Center TRACON Automa- invented methodologies that allow scien-
Denery’s research tion System (CTAS) has tists to more thoroughly and precisely vali-
was credited with been adopted by the Fed- date CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics)
providing daily eral Aviation Administra- codes and also enable aerodynamicists to
benefits to the tion (FAA) and the airline clearly define cause-and-effect relationships
country’s air trans- industry as the cornerstone between flowfield and/or configurational
portation system. for future automation in variations and resultant aerodynamic-per-
“Dr. Denery’s the terminal area and as formance consequences.
personal research in the major component of “To have your technical contributions
guidance and con- near-term capacity en- recognized by your peers is the most grati-
trol theory, com- hancements planned in fying aspect of this award,” Reda said. “In
bined with his bril- support of free-flight. order to stay in science, I’ve had to change
liant technical and Denery also developed the laboratories and areas of study several times,
managerial leader- technical plan for NASA’s and I can honestly say that my NASA Ames
ship of research Advanced Air Transporta- experience has been the most rewarding
programs, have photo by Roger Brimmer tion Technologies (AATT) and productive tenure of my entire career.
yielded critical ad- program, a $400 million A special thank you to Sandy Davis, Paul
Dr. Daniel Reda
vances and numer- program that is one of the Kutler and Charles Smith for creating and
ous innovations in agency’s most important fostering the required research environ-
the guidance and operation of aircraft and initiatives in aeronautics. ment and to Mike Wilder of the MCAT
air traffic control systems,” McDonald noted. “I am very pleased and proud to have Institute for helping me to validate the
“Dr. Denery is widely recognized interna- been selected as a Fellow of the AIAA,” liquid crystal methodologies.”
tionally for numerous personal research con- Denery said. “To be included among this AIAA is the world’s pre-eminent aero-
tributions during his early career to the group of outstanding individuals is very space information resource and the largest
theory and methodology of systems identi- special. I am thankful to NASA and the professional society for aeronautics and as-
fication and flight dynamics, which led to people I have worked with for the opportu- tronautics professionals.
significant improvements in the ability to nity to pursue the interesting and relevant BY MICHAEL MEWHINNEY
identify and converge on parameter esti- research that led to this honor, and I am
From left to right: Jim Lambright, Defense Other Symtech employees at Ames who were not present at the photo session include
Equal Opportunity Management Institute Robert Hogan, Neil Heather and Eric Vacin.
(DEOMI); Lupe Velasquez, acquisition
branch for information systems; Ruben
Ramos, space projects division; and Thomas
Symtech Corporation was presented emony is the highlight activity of the an-
Edel, protective services office. with the 1998 NASA Minority Contractor nual Minority Enterprises Development
of the Year award on Sept, 23 of last year at (MED) week. Symtech Corporation, Alex-
NASA Headquarters. The purpose of the andria, VA, is an 8(a) firm that provides
award is to nationally recognize successful scientific and technical services in support
minority contractors who have made out- of the Earth Sciences and Space Science
standing contributions to NASA's mission Divisions in the Ames Space Directorate.
in the technical arena. The award cer-
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