Philip A. Blythe
Email: pab0@lehigh.edu
Phone: (610) 758-3782
Fax: (610) 758-6224
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Appointed to Lehigh Faculty: 1968
Education:
Ph.D. Fluid Mechanics, Univ. of Manchester, England, 1961
B.Sc. Mathematics, Univ. of Manchester, England, 1958
Related experience - teaching, industrial, etc.:
Research Fellow, National Physical Laboratory, UK, 1961-63
Senior Scientific Officer, National Physical Laboratory, UK, 1963-64
Lecturer, Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College, UK, 1964-68
Associate Professor, Center for the Application of Mathematics, Lehigh University, 1968-70
Professor, Center for the Application of Mathematics, Lehigh University, 1970-1983
Visiting Professor, Applied Mathematics, University of Newcastle, UK, 1974-75
Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University, 1983-present
Head, Division of Engineering Mathematics, Lehigh University, 1983-97
Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, 1997-98
Visiting Professor, Dept. of App. Math & Theor. Physics, University of Cambridge, 1997-1998
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, Lehigh University, 1999-2001
Research activities, consulting, patents, etc.:
Research efforts are mainly in thermofluids and applied mathematics with applications to materials processing, ignition phenomena, reacting flows, and non-linear stability. Also concerned with crack tip behavior in elastic materials.
Have served as a consultant to numerous companies, including work with Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs) on the coating of optical fibers. Collaborated with OFS, Fitel Research, on optical fiber cooling technology and thermofluid instabilities associated with the production of optical fibers.
Scientific and professional societies of which a member:
American Physical Society
SIAM
Honors and awards:
Waldenrath Outstanding Advisor Award, Lehigh University, 1990 & 1993
Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching, Lehigh University, 1994
Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1995
Elected Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, 1998
Pi Tau Sigma Teacher of the Year Award, Lehigh University, 1999
Deming Lewis Alumni Award, Lehigh University, 2000
Delta Beta Xi award for distinguished service to Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity, 2002
Recent Ph.D. and M.S. Thesis and/or Projects Supervised:
(contact the department for a copy of the following)
2008 - Xiaofeng Zou, PhD: "Theoretical Analysis of Control Mechanisms for Boundary Layer Separation on Rotocraft Blades"
2004 - Thomas A. Nichols, M.S. Thesis: "Lift Response of a Thin Oscillating Airfoil"