Author Archives: saemiller

I have updated my site to be compatible with my new professorship. I will update it soon. I have not retained my previous three years of posts. Thank you. Edit: I should say that I lost the database and could not recover it.

I was recently awarded the 2015 NASA Early Career Achievement Medal. The official NASA photo was recently released. The medal is for my work in theoretical aeroacoustics and its application to jet noise prediction.

I have begun a new journey in the field of combustion. Currently I am reviewing flammability limits, heat release, flame extinction, acoustics, etc. There is some limited literature on acoustic waves from combustion. I am hopeful that I might eventually place these papers on a more grounded theoretical basis. Current models in use are mainly …

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This weekend I was able to visit the Artist’s Garden Exhibit at The Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk Virginia. The exhibit is open until early September. Approximately seventy works are on display. This space shows American artists that used gardens essentially as laboratories for their studies in color theory in the impressionist style. Those …

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My good friend and colleague Alexandra sent me a picture of wildflowers near Lyon, France. I love wildflowers. Perhaps more interestingly Lyon is the location of the Aeroacoustics conference. I can imagine Camille Pissarro incorporating these into some of his countryside paintings. I think that a visit to the Norfolk Botanical Gardens is in order.

The NASA Library is amazing and provided me with the original in Russian. Kolmogorov, A. N., “The Local Structure of Turbulence in Incompressible Viscous Fluid for Very Large Reynolds Number,” Dokl. Akad. Nauk. SSSR, Vol. 30, 1941, pp. 299–303.

It is that time of year again where the World War 2 Airshow occurs near Virginia Beach. Myself and some NASA colleauges headed down on the Saturday to watch flights from 1 pm to approximately 4 pm. It was a beautiful and sunny day. The static dispaly was fun also, including the flight line, and …

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The American Kite Associate visited Virginia Beach recently. They had three areas on the beach fenced off. The first was for open flying. Anyone could go and fly a kite. The second was a static display of many different types of kites. I love octopus – and there were many so that made me very …

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