Professor Peter Schmid PhD

Peter Schmid is a research director with the French National Research Agency (CNRS) and Professor (PCC) of Mechanics at the Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau near Paris. He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Technical University Munich, obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from MIT and joined the Applied Mathematics faculty at the University of Washington in Seattle, before taking up his current position in France. His research interests lie in computational fluid mechanics, in particular in hydrodynamic stability theory and flow control. He focuses on the description and targeted manipulation of flow behaviour with many applications ranging from instability control to acoustic noise reduction, from improved combustion processes to designs with reduced flow sensitivities. Tools from control theory, model reduction, system identification and optimization are routinely employed to accomplish these diverse objectives.

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