Shaul Niv Eliahou - Faculty of Aerospace Engineering

Biographical Data

EDUCATION

Post Doc. At the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at The University of Arizona, Tucson Arizona. 1996-‏1998

Ph.D. from the Engineering Faculty, Department of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Tel-Aviv University. 1996

M.Sc. from the Department of Electron Devices, Materials, and Electromagnetic Radiation, Tel-Aviv University. 1990

B.Sc. from the Engineering Faculty, Tel-Aviv University. 1986

Graduate of the Gordon Institute for Energy Studies of the Tel Aviv University. 1987

WORK EXPERIENCE

2022-today Director, Applied Research IAI Corporate Research & Development

2016-2018 Chief Scientist, IAI Corporate Research & Development.

2014-2016 IP Manager, IAI Corporate Research & Development.

2006-2014 Projects manager and projects initiator in IAI/MLM Entrepreneurship Center.
1998-2006 Start-up company entrepreneur

1990-2006 Academic Positions

Main areas of research

MEMS MOEMS Technology, Smart Materials, Actuators and Health Monitoring for Aerospace applications. Design, Modeling, Fabrication and Analysis of Smart low signature flying platforms. Active fluids control.

Selected publications

1. S. Eliahou-Niv, R. Dahan and G. Golan, “Design and Analysis of a Novel Tunable Optical Filter”, Microelectronics Journal, volume 37, pp. 302-307 April 2006.

2. Eliahou-Niv. S; “Design, analysis, and fabrication of a new MEMS scanning device actuator”. Journal of Applied Surface Science, volume 248, pp.503-508 July 2005.

3. Shai O., Eliahou-Niv S, Roman D.R.G, Rubin D. and Slavutin M, “Mechanical Counterpart of Electronic Transistor”, the International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education, Volume 39, Issue 1 2011. .

4. S. Eliahou-Niv, “A Mechanical Darlington for MEMS Applications”, Journal of Circuits Systems and Computers, Vol. 15, No. 3 (2006) 313-319.

5. Eliahou. S, Han. G, Tumin. A, Wygnanski. I; “Laminar-turbulent transition in pipe Poiseuille flow and its similarity to transition in boundary layers”, NASA / CP – 1998 – 206958.

6. Seifert. A, Eliahou-Niv. S, Greenblatt. D, Wygnanski. I; “On the use of Piezoelectric Actuators for Airfoil Separation Control”, AIAA J, Vol. 36, No. 8, 1998.

7. Eliahou. S, Tumin. A, Wygnanski. I; “Laminar-turbulent transition in Poiseuille pipe flow subjected to periodic perturbation emanating from the wall”, J. Fluid Mech. Vol. 361, 1998.

8. Eliahou-Niv. S, Tumin. A, Wygnanski. I; “Laminar Turbulent Transition in Poiseuille Pipe Flow Subjected to Perturbations Emanating from the wall”, Proc. of the XIX Int. Congr. Theor. Appl. Mech. Kyoto, Japan, 1996.

9. S. Eliahou-Niv, M. Reter, D. Oster, R. Niv Rotary Piezoelectric Actuator Comprising Helical Conversion Mechanism 54th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences, Tel-Aviv, Israel, February 19-20, 2014.

10. S. Eliahou-Niv, Bar-Anan, D. Levy, D. D. Oster. High-Performance Pneumatic Piezoelectric Actuator and its Integrated Model. 9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MISSILE DEFANCE CHALLENGES IN EUROPE 30th April-3rd May 2013 Bucharest Romaniaץ

11. S. Eliahou-Niv, Bar-Anan, D. Levy, D. D. Oster Integrated Model and Analysis of a Pneumatic Piezoelectric Actuator. 53th Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences. Tel-Aviv, Israel. 6-7 March, 2013.

12. S. Eliahou-Niv, Bar-Anan, D. D. Oster Development of High-Performance Pneumatic Piezoelectric Actuator. 522nd Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences. Tel-Aviv, Israel. February 29-March 01, 2012.

13. S. Eliahou-Niv, M. Martino, A.P. Caricato, A. Peled, Simulation and Analysis of Two Axis Micro-Mirror Optimized for a Decoupled Motion for MEMS. E-MRS European Materials Research Society. 2005 spring meeting, Strasbourg – France.

14. S. Eliahou-Niv, O Shai The mechanical transistor as an education tool in a power circuits analysis, 4th Mediterranean conference of power generation, transmission and distribution, Lemesos, Cyprus, November. 2004.

15. S. Eliahou-Niv, Design, fabrication and analysis of new MEMS scanning device actuator. 4th International Conference on Photo-Excited Processes and Applications, Lecce, Italy, September 2004.

16. Eliahou-Niv. S, Tumin. A, Wygnanski. I, Laminar-turbulent transition in pipe Poiseuille flow and its similarity to transition in boundary layers. 1997 Workshop on Boundary Layer Transition in Turbomachines, NASA, June 1998.

17. Eliahou-Niv. S, On the Behavior of Fully Developed Bounded Flow Subjected to Small Disturbances. 13th Arizona Fluid Mechanics Conf., Tucson, Arizona, April 1997.

18. Eliahou-Niv. S, Tumin. A, Wygnanski. I, Laminar Turbulent Transition in Poiseuille Pipe Flow Subjected to Perturbations Emanating from the wall. XIX Int. Congr. Theor. Appl. Mech. Kyoto, Japan, 1996.

19. “Interrogation System Using Remote Assistance Device” “מערכת חקירה עם התקן עזר מרוחק” פטנט בישראל מס’ 218777, 01 ינואר 2016.

20. “A System, A Method and A Computer Program Product for Reducing Damage by Missiles”- USA Patent Office, Patent Number US 9,199,736, 01 December 2015.

21. “מערכת, שיטה, והתקן ממוחשב להפחתת נזק מטילים” פטנט בישראל מס’ 211513, 22 יולי 2016.

22. “Vehicle, and Control System and Method Therfore” “איזון אפקטיבי של קליעים מסתחררים” פטנט בישראל מס’ 209645, 25 דצמבר 2015.

23. “Controllable Valve” “שסתום בר-שליטה” פטנט בישראל מס’ 208128, 31 יולי 2014.

24. “Fluid Driven Apparatus” “מכשיר המופעל על ידי נוזלים” פטנט בישראל מס’ 201029, 31 יולי 2015.

25. 2006 “Active Flaperon assembly”- , Israel Patent Office, Patent No. 137925.

26. 2006 “Apparatus for Active fluid Control”- , Israel Patent Office, Patent No. 132781.

27. 1999 “Apparatus for Active fluid Control”- , USA Patent Office, Patent No. 5,983,944.

28. 2002 “Mechanical Device for Producing Angular Movement of an Optical Element”-, USA Patent Office, Patent No. 0,196,569 A1.

29. 2001 “Active Flaperon assembly”- USA Patent office, Patent No. 6,247,670 B1.