/College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Foluso Ladeinde, PhD

Foluso LadeindeAssociate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Office:  Heavy Engineering 224

Email Address: Foluso.Ladeinde@stonybrook.edu

Phone Number: (631) 632-9293 

Lab Website: Advanced Fluid Dynamics, Propulsion, and Energy Lab Website

Bio: 

Foluso Ladeinde earned several degrees from Cornell University, including a 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, optimization, applied mathematics, and theoretical fluid dynamics.

Dr. Ladeinde served as the founding Chairman and Department Head (2015–2019) of the (United States) ABET-accredited Department of Mechanical Engineering at State University of New York, Incheon, South Korea. He was also a Summer Faculty Fellow for ten years with the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. 

His research applies advanced computational science and applied mathematics to problems in theoretical fluid dynamics, turbulence, two-phase flows and heat transfer, supersonic combustion, and, more recently, atmospheric cloud microphysics. His work has been supported by numerous agencies, including the National Science Foundation, United States Air Force, United States Navy, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the United States Department of Energy, as well as industry,  including The Boeing Company. He has authored or co-authored more than 260
technical publications in archival journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings.


Education:

  • Cornell University, Ph.D. 1988
  • Cornell University, M.Eng. 1986
  • Cornell University, M.S. 1984

Professional Experience:

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stony Brook University, 1991-Present
  • Founding Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering, SUNY Korea, 2015-2019
  • Software Development Engineer, Technalysis, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Awards & Publications:

  • First Class Honors Undergraduate Degree
  • AIAA Best Paper
  • Fellow, ASME; Associate Fellow and Life Member, AIAA;
  • Graduate Fellowships at Cornell University
  • United States Air Force Travel Awards
  • United States Air Force Fellowship Awards
  • United States National Research Council Fellowship Awards
  • Tsinghua University, China, Visiting Scholar Award

Professional Memberships & Service:

  • Founding Chair and Chair (2015-2019), Department of Mechanical Engineering, State University of New York (SUNY) Incheon, South Korea
  • Associate Editor of the AIAA Journal (2009-2013)
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Aerospace Engineering (2015-2025)
  • Guest Editor, Physics of Fluids (2020-2021)
  • Chair of the External Review Board of the NASA Center for Aerospace Research at North Carolina (NC) A&T University in Greensboro, NC.

Overview:

In Professor Ladeinde's group we model mechanical and aerospace components, subsystems, and systems, especially as they pertain to aircraft propulsion and energy. We do this to gain intrinsic knowledge and generate engineering design data. We focus on fluid dynamics, aerothermodynamics, and thermal management in aviation, automotive, and datacenter industries. Our models are usually those that govern the conservation of mass, momentum, energy, and chemical species, at all speeds (subsonic, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic), and mostly under turbulent and chemically reacting flow conditions. We use approximate (numerical) solution methods on supercomputers at various levels of model complexity and accuracy. 

Highlights & Accomplishments:

  • Pioneered the Investigation of the Complex Heat Flux Patterns in Rotating Detonation Engines for Hypersonic Flight
  • Made Foundational Contributions to the Physics of Compressible Turbulence in Aviation
  • Author: Applications of Complex Variables (600 Pages), Mathematics of Variations and Artificial Intelligence (752 Pages)

Research Areas:


Research Interests:

  • Thermal Management in Aviation, Automotive Industry, and Datacenter
  • Detonation and Supersonic Combustion in High-Speed Air Vehicles
  • Interactions of Cloud, Aerosol, Ice, and Turbulence in Atmosphere Microphysics
  • Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence