Avshalom Manela - Faculty of Aerospace Engineering

Avshalom Manela

Associate Professor

Biographical Data

Education:
2006 PhD, Aerospace Engineering, Technion
2002 MSc, Aerospace Engineering, Technion
1999 BSc, Aerospace Engineering, Technion

Academic Appointments:
2010-present: Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion
2018-2019: Visiting Professor, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh
2006-2010: Instructor in Applied Mathematics and Research Affiliate, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Main areas of research

Rarefied gas dynamics: heat and mass transfer, small-scale flows, continuum breakdown.
Aeroacoustics: vortex sound, fluid-structure interaction.

Selected publications

Ben-Ami, Y., Manela, A. 2018
Nonlinear thermal effects in unsteady shear flows of a rarefied gas,
Phys. Rev. E 98, 033121.
Ben Ami, Y., Manela, A. 2017
Acoustic field of a pulsating cylinder in a rarefied gas: Thermoviscous and curvature effects,
Phys. Rev. Fluids 2, 093401.
Manela, A., Weidenfeld, M. 2017
The ‘hanging flag’ problem: On the heaving motion of a thin filament in the limit of small flexural stiffness,
J. Fluid Mech. 829, 190-213.
Manela, A. 2016
On the acoustic signature of tandem airfoils: The sound of an elastic airfoil in the wake of a vortex generator,
Phys. Fluids 28, 071905.
Weidenfeld, M., Manela, A. 2016
On the attenuating effect of permeability on the low frequency sound of an airfoil,
J. Sound Vib. 375, 275-288.
Manela, A., Pogorelyuk, L. 2015
Active noise control of a vibrating surface: continuum and non-continuum investigations on vibroacoustic sound reduction by a secondary heat-flux source,
J. Sound Vib. 358, 20-34.
Manela, A., Zhang, J. 2012
The effect of compressibility on the stability of wall-bounded Kolmogorov flow,
J. Fluid. Mech. 694, 29-49.
Manela, A., Hadjiconstantinou, N.G. 2010
Gas-flow animation by unsteady heating in a microchannel,
Phys. Fluids. 22, 062001.