WARREN F. PHILLIPS

Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Utah State University

 

 

 


Academic Rank:                                Professor

 

Education:                                          B.S.M.E, University of Michigan, 1966

                                                            M.S.M.E., University of Michigan, 1967

                                                            Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1970

 

Number of Years at USU:                32 years

 

Current Research Interests:

Dr. Phillips’ current research interests are in the area of subsonic aerodynamics and flight mechanics.  He is particularly interested in the following research topics: airfoil design and modeling; the effects of wing tip vortices on finite wing design; propeller performance analysis; the development of aircraft design software; the development of flight computers to optimize the performance of aircraft in strong winds; incompressible computational fluid dynamics using panel methods and boundary layer theory; and turbulence modeling in incompressible flow.

 

Text Book Publication:

Phillips, W. F., Mechanics of Flight, Wiley, New York, ISBN 0-471-33458-8, (Jan. 2004).

 

Recent Journal Publications:

Phillips, W. F., Alley, N. R., and Goodrich, W. D., “Lifting-Line Analysis of Roll Control and Variable Twist,” AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 41, No. 2, (Mar. 2004, Tentative).

Phillips, W. F., “Lifting-Line Analysis for Wings with Geometric and Aerodynamic Twist and Washout-Optimized Wings,” AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 128-136 (Feb. 2004).

Phillips, W. F., Anderson, E. A., and Kelly, Q. J., “Predicting the Contribution of Running Propellers to Aircraft Stability Derivatives,” AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 40, No. 6, pp. 1107-1114 (Dec. 2003).

Phillips, W. F., “Estimating the Low-Speed Sidewash Gradient on a Vertical Stabilizer,” AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 39, No. 6, pp. 1088-1090 (Nov. 2002).

Phillips, W. F., and Anderson, E. A., “An Analytical Approximation for the Mechanics of Airplane Spin,” AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 39, No. 6, pp. 1084-1088 (Nov. 2002).

Phillips, W. F., and Santana, B. W., “Aircraft Small-Disturbance Theory with Longitudinal-Lateral Coupling,” AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 39, No. 6, pp. 973-980 (Nov. 2002).

Phillips, W. F., Anderson, E. A., Jenkins, J. C., and Sunouchi, S., “Estimating the Low-Speed Downwash Angle on an Aft Tail,” AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 600-608 (Aug. 2002).

Phillips, W. F., “An Analytical Solution for Wing Dihedral Effect,” AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 514-516 (June 2002).

Phillips, W. F., “Propeller Momentum Theory with Slipstream Rotation,” AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 184-187 (Jan. 2002).

Phillips, W. F., Hailey, C. E., and Gebert, G. A., “A Review of Attitude Representations Used for Aircraft Kinematics,” AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 718-737 (July 2001).

Phillips, W. F., and Snyder, D. O., “Modern Adaptation of Prandtl’s Classic Lifting-Line Theory,” AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 662-670 (July 2000).

Phillips, W. F., “Improved Closed-Form Approximation for Dutch Roll,” AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 484-490 (May 2000).

Phillips, W. F., “Phugoid Approximation for Conventional Airplanes,” AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 37,
No. 1, pp. 30-36 (Jan. 2000).

 

Recent Meeting Presentations:

Anderson, E. A., Phillips, W. F., and Jenkins, J. C., “Lifting-Line Estimation for the Contribution of a Conventional Tail to Aircraft Lateral Stability Derivatives,” AIAA-2004-0012, Presented at the 42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (Jan. 2004).

Phillips, W. F., Alley, N. R., and Goodrich, W. D., “Lifting-Line Analysis of Roll Control and Variable Twist,” AIAA-2003-4061, Presented at the 21st AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference
(June 2003).

Phillips, W. F., “Lifting-Line Analysis for the Effects of Washout on Performance and Stability,” AIAA-2003-393, Presented at the 41st AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (Jan. 2003).

Phillips, W. F., Anderson, E. A., Jenkins, J. C., and Sunouchi, S., “Estimating the Low-Speed Downwash Angle on an Aft Tail,” AIAA-2002-0830, Presented at the 40th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (Jan. 2002).

Phillips, W. F., and Anderson, E. A., “Predicting the Contribution of Running Propellers to Aircraft Stability Derivatives,” AIAA-2002-0390, Presented at the 40th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (Jan. 2002).

Phillips, W. F., Hailey, C. E., and Gebert, G. A., “The Effects of Orthogonality Error in Aircraft Flight Simulation,” AIAA-2001-0108, Presented at the 39th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit
(Jan. 2001).

Phillips, W. F., Hailey, C. E., and Gebert, G. A., “A Review of Attitude Kinematics for Aircraft Flight Simulation,” AIAA-2000-4302, Presented at the AIAA Simulation and Modeling Conference
(Aug. 2000).

Phillips, W. F., and Snyder, D. O., “Application of Lifting-Line Theory to Systems of Lifting Surfaces,” AIAA-2000-0653, Presented at the 38th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (Jan. 2000).

Phillips, W. F., “An Accurate Closed-Form Approximation for Dutch Roll,” AIAA-2000-0449, Presented at the 38th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit (Jan. 2000).

 

Honors and Awards:

AIAA Certificate of Merit for the Outstanding Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Paper, 2003.

AIAA Utah Engineering Educator of the year 2001, Utah Chapter AIAA.

Robins Award 2001, Utah State University Achievement of the Year, for Design Build Fly.

AIAA Certificate of Merit for the Outstanding Paper, 2000 Modeling & Simulation Technologies Conference.

AIAA Utah Engineering Educator of the year 2000, Utah Chapter AIAA.

Robins Award 2000, Utah State University Achievement of the Year, for Design Build Fly.

Advisor of the Year 1999, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Utah State University.

Teacher of the Year 1998, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Utah State University.

Advisor of the Year 1997, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Utah State University.

Outstanding Research Award, College of Engineering, Utah State University, 1982.

ASEE Outstanding Engineering Educator, Intermountain Region, 1979.

Outstanding Teacher Award, College of Engineering, Utah State University, 1979.

Phoenix Memorial Fellowship, 1969-1970.

NASA Fellowship, 1966-1969.

Bursley Award (for the outstanding M.E. student at the University of Michigan in the class of 1966).

 

Scientific and Professional Societies:

Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics