Rate My Professor Ingo Jahn

Professor Ingo Jahn serves as Professor in the School of Science, Engineering and Digital Technologies at the University of Southern Queensland. He earned his MEng and PhD from the University of Oxford. His research specializations include hypersonics, aerospace vehicle design, multi-disciplinary analysis and optimisation, dynamic system modelling, turbomachinery, and compressible flow. Fields of Research associated with his work encompass 4001 Aerospace Engineering, 4012 Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Engineering, 401204 Computational Methods in Fluid Flow, 401207 Fundamental and Theoretical Fluid Dynamics, 401211 Multiphysics Flows, 401213 Turbulent Flows, 400106 Hypersonic Propulsion and Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics, and 400105 Flight Dynamics, among others. He is an Advanced Queensland Research Fellow (mid-career) and holds professional affiliations with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers - International Gas Turbine Institute, and the Institute for Advanced Engineering and Space Sciences.

Professor Jahn has contributed significantly to the literature in thermal engineering, fluid dynamics, and hypersonics. Key publications include 'Numerical simulation of water spray for pre-cooling of inlet air in natural draft dry cooling towers' (Alkhedhair et al., Applied Thermal Engineering, 2013), with 161 citations; 'Supercritical CO2 Radial Turbine Design Performance as a Function of Turbine Size Parameters' (Qi et al., Journal of Turbomachinery, 2017), with 109 citations; 'The influence of real gas effects on the performance of supercritical CO2 dry gas seals' (Fairuz and Jahn, Tribology International, 2016), with 103 citations; 'Water spray for pre-cooling of inlet air for natural draft dry cooling towers – experimental study' (Alkhedhair et al., International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2015), with 85 citations; and 'Nozzle arrangement effect on cooling performance of saline water spray cooling' (Sadafi et al., Applied Thermal Engineering, 2016), with 73 citations. More recent hypersonic-focused works feature 'Aerodynamic measurements of hypersonic free-flight via photogrammetry' (Lock et al., 2023) and 'Hypersonic Oscillating Shock-Wave/Boundary-Layer Interaction on a Porous Wall' (2021). He leads projects such as hypersonic flight experiments with the German Aerospace Center on the MAPHEUS sounding rocket mission and has secured funding through the Australian Research Council and AEA Ignite grants. Professor Jahn is based at the Springfield Campus.