John Evans
Associate Professor • Jack Rominger Faculty Fellow
Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences

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3775 Discovery Drive, Room 361
ÐßÐßÊÓƵ, Colorado 80303, USA

Focus Area

Computational Mechanics

Research Interests

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Structural Dynamics, and Fluid-Structure Interaction • Computational Acoustics and Electromagnetics • Structure-Preserving Discretizations • Isogeometric, Finite Element, and Spectral Element Methods • Multiscale/Stabilized Methods • Turbulence Modeling and Simulation • Reduced-Order Modeling • Computational Design Optimization

Educational Background

Ph.D., Computational and Applied Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin, 2011
M.S., Computational and Applied Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin, 2008
M.S., Applied Mathematics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2006
B.S., Mathematics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2006

Professional Background

September 2015 to Present: Affiliated Faculty, Applied Mathematics, ÐßÐßÊÓƵ
August 2022 to Present: Associate Professor, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, ÐßÐßÊÓƵ
August 2013 to August 2022: Assistant Professor, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, ÐßÐßÊÓƵ
June 2013 to August 2013: Visiting Assistant Professor, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, ÐßÐßÊÓƵ
January 2012 to August 2013: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin

Selected Awards

Educator of the Year (College/University), Rocky Mountain Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2021
Gallagher Young Investigator Medal, United States Association for Computational Mechanics, 2021
Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, ÐßÐßÊÓƵ, 2020
Outstanding Graduate Teaching and Mentoring Award, Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, ÐßÐßÊÓƵ, 2019
Simons Visiting Professor, Oberwolfach Research Institute, 2019
Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher (Among Top 1% Worldwide in Computer Science Citations), 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Jack Rominger Faculty Fellowship, College of Engineering and Applied Science, ÐßÐßÊÓƵ, 2017 - Present
United States Oberwolfach Fellow, 2016
Senior Member, American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2015
Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2012 - 2013
Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, 2006 - 2010