Applications of Complex Variables

Foluso Ladeinde earned several degrees from Cornell University, including the Ph. D. from The Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is a tenured faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stony Brook University, where he teaches courses in aerospace propulsion, numerical methods, applied mathematics, and theoretical fluid dynamics. He is the founding Chairman and was the Department Head (2015-2019) of the ABET-accredited Department of Mechanical Engineering, State University of New York, Incheon, South Korea. He was a Summer Faculty Fellow for ten years at the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Ladeinde's research uses advanced computational science and applied mathematics to investigate theoretical fluid dynamics, fluid flow turbulence theory, two-phase flows and heat transfer, supersonic combustion, and, more recently, atmospheric cloud microphysics. His work has been funded by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF), the United States Air Force (USAF), the United States Navy (USN), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and commercial industry, including The Boeing Aerospace Corporation. He was two-term Chairman of the External Review Board of the NASA Center for Aerospace Research at North Carolina A&T University, Greensboro, North Carolina.

Dr. Ladeinde has served as an Associate Editor (2009-2013) of the AIAA Journal, the flagship journal of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), an Associate Editor (2015-Present) of The ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering, and a Guest Editor of the Physics of Fluids (2020-2021). He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA, a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a Life Member of the American Physical Society (APS), and a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and The Combustion Institute. He has published over 250 papers in archival journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings. Dr. Ladeinde has also won Best Paper and Best Reviewer awards.