Chair and Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering Honors Faculty Liaison
CEE Advisory Board Member
- PhD, University of California, San Diego
- MSME, University of California, San Diego
- Diploma in Physics, Georg August Universität, Göttingen, Germany
Frank Jacobitz, PhD, pursues research that focuses on numerical simulation of fluid flow. Problems considered include turbulent and mixing processes in density stratified and rotating shear flows with geophysical applications in the atmosphere and oceans, as well as biological flows of blood in skeletal muscle and muscle fascia vessel networks.
Scholarly Work
- With Ian Sysyn, Jacob Ryan, and Jack Comfort, "On the interaction of a laminar heated boundary layer with a roughness element: A comparison of experiments and simulations for steady flow," International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 2025.
- With Kai Schneider, "Scale-dependent analysis of the return to isotropy from anisotropic homogeneous turbulent shear flows originating from Batchelor and Saffman turbulence," International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 2025.
- With Kai Schneider, "Revisiting Taylor's hypothesis in homogeneous turbulent shear flow," Physical Review Fluids, 2024.
- With Kai Schneider, "Lagrangian and Eulerian accelerations in turbulent stratified shear flows," Physical Review Fluids, 2021.
- With Ian J. Sysyn and Patrick H. Bonner, "A Simulation Study of the Flow Over a Roughness Element," Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting, Virtual, Chicago, IL, 2020.
- With Mira M. Wiley, "A Study of Xylem Filtration for Fecal Coliform Removal," Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2020.
- With Mira Wiley, "Uganda Water Filtration Using Pine and Eucalyptus Xylem," Sigma Xi Virtual Annual Meeting & Student Research Conference, Virtual, 2020.
- With Patrick H. Bonner and Ian J. Sysyn, "Visualization of the Flow Structure Over a Roughness Element," Sigma Xi Virtual Annual Meeting & Student Research Conference, Virtual, 2020.
- With Christina Kozlovsky, Ava Bellizzi, Molly Klein, Ariel Shasha, Liron Kanisberg, Yaal Lester, Bryan Cornwall, Martha Fuller, Keith Macdonald, and James Bolender, "The development of a Remediation Approach for the Removal of Bacteria and Toxic Metals for use in Rural Uganda," Sigma Xi Virtual Student Scholars Symposium, Virtual, 2020.
- With Ian Sysyn and Patrick Bonner, " Simulation of Flow over a Roughness Element." San Diego, CA, 2020.