{"id":49,"date":"2016-01-12T16:09:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T22:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/profile\/roth\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T20:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T01:05:04","slug":"roth","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.engineering.iastate.edu\/people\/profile\/roth\/","title":{"rendered":"Rothmayer, Alric"},"author":3,"template":"","affiliation":[4],"department":[1039,6],"group":[],"interest":[946,948,289,947,949,951,950],"class_list":["post-49","profile","type-profile","status-publish","hentry","affiliation-faculty","department-aere-emeritus","department-aere","interest-aircraft-and-engine-icing","interest-channel-and-pipe-flow","interest-computational-fluid-dynamics","interest-low-order-mathematical-modeling-of-roughness-in-fluid-flow","interest-magnetohydrodynamics","interest-multiple-scales-analysis-and-boundary-layer-theory","interest-perturbation-methods"],"firstname":"Alric","key_research_area":"","netid":"roth","isu_title":"P00110872 Department Chair [AER E]","email":"roth@iastate.edu","external_link":"","hide_isu_title":"1","nickname":"","info":"<h4 id=\"links-header\" class=\"dir-header\">Links<\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aere.iastate.edu\/\">Aerospace Department page<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4 id=\"education-header\" class=\"dir-header\">Education<\/h4>\r\n<div>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 1985<\/li>\r\n \t<li>M.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 1982<\/li>\r\n \t<li>B.S., Applied Mechanics, University of Cincinnati, 1980<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<h4 id=\"interest-header&quot;\" class=\"dir-header\">Research Interests<\/h4>\r\n<div>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Perturbation Methods<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Boundary Layer Theory<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Computational Fluid Dynamics<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Viscous-Inviscid Interactions and Flow Separation<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Aircraft Icing<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<h4 id=\"interest-header&quot;\" class=\"dir-header\">Current Teaching Interests<\/h4>\r\n<div>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.iastate.edu\/azcourses\/aer_e\/\">AERE 310<\/a>: Aerodynamics I: Incompressible Flow<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.iastate.edu\/azcourses\/aer_e\/\">AERE 311<\/a>: Aerodynamics II: Compressible Flow<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.iastate.edu\/azcourses\/aer_e\/\">AERE 411<\/a>: Aerospace Vehicle Propulsion I<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.iastate.edu\/azcourses\/aer_e\/\">AERE 412<\/a>: Aerospace Vehicle Propulsion II<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.iastate.edu\/azcourses\/aer_e\/\">AERE 446<\/a>: Computational Fluid Dynamics<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.iastate.edu\/azcourses\/aer_e\/\">AERE 501<\/a>: Advanced Engineering Analysis<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.iastate.edu\/azcourses\/aer_e\/\">AERE 581<\/a>: Perturbation Methods<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>","middle_name":"","isu_office":"2235 Howe $ 537 Bissell Rd. # Ames, IA 500111096","uid":[],"hide_isu_office":"1","lastname":"Rothmayer","publications":"<ul><li>Servini, P., Smith, F.T., and Rothmayer, A.P., 2018, \u201cThe impact of dynamic roughness elements on marginally separated boundary layers,\u201d <em>J. Fluid Mech.<\/em>, Volume 855, 25 November 2018, pp. 351-370.<\/li><li>Rothmayer. A.P., 2017, \u201cSublayer surface roughness and the Spalart-Allmaras turbulence model,\u201d AIAA Paper 2017-3581, 9th AIAA Atmospheric and Space Environments Conference (AIAA Aviation Forum), 5-9 June 2017, Denver, CO.<\/li><li>Lifshitz, Y., Degani, D., and Rothmayer, A.P., 2015, \"Periodic-forcing parameters for control of incipient leading-edge separation,\" <em>AIAA Journal<\/em>, Vol. 53, No. 9 (2015), pp. 2482-2491.<\/li><li>Rothmayer, A.P., and Hu. H., 2015, \u201cA low-order model of the interaction between air driven water films and sub-grid surface roughness,\u201d SAE Paper 2015-01-2078, presented at the SAE 2015 International Conference on Icing of Aircraft, Engines and Structures, June 22-25 2015, Prague, Czech Republic.<\/li><li>Rothmayer, A.P., 2014, \"Magnetohydrodynamic channel flow with weak transverse magnetic fields,\" <em>Phil. Trans. of the Roy. Soc. A<\/em>, Vol 372, No. 2020, July 2014.<\/li><li>Rothmayer, A.P., and Hu, H., 2013, \u201cLinearized solutions of three-dimensional condensed layer films,\u201d AIAA Paper 2013-3055, 5th AIAA Atmospheric and Space Environments Conference, San Diego CA.<\/li><li>Rothmayer A.P., and Hu, H., 2012, \u201cSolutions for two-dimensional instabilities of ice surfaces uniformly wetted by thin films,\u201d AIAA Paper 2012-3133, 4th AIAA Atmospheric and Space Environments Conference, New Orleans LA.<\/li><li>Wang, G., and Rothmayer, A.P., 2009, \"Thin water films driven by air shear stress through roughness,\" <em>Computers &amp; Fluids<\/em>, Volume 38, Issue 2, February 2009, Pages 235-246.<\/li><li>Huebsch, W.W. and Rothmayer, A.P., 2003, \"Numerical prediction of unsteady vortex shedding for large leading-edge roughness,\" <em>Computers &amp; Fluids<\/em>, Vol. 33(3), March 2004, pp. 405-434.<\/li><li>Rothmayer, A.P., Matheis, B.R., and Timoshin, S.N., 2002, \"Thin liquid films flowing over external aerodynamic surfaces,\" <em>J. Eng. Math.<\/em>, 42, pp. 341-357.<\/li><li>Tsao, J.C., and Rothmayer, A.P., 2002, \"Application of triple-deck theory to the prediction of glaze ice roughness formation on an airfoil leading edge,\" <em>Computers &amp; Fluids<\/em>, Vol. 31 No. 8 (2002), pp. 977-1014.<\/li><li>Rothmayer, A.P., and Tsao, J.C., 2001, \"On the incipient motion of air driven water beads,\" AIAA Paper 2001-0676, presented at the 39th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno NV.<\/li><li>Rothmayer, A.P., 1998, \"A hyperdimensional transposition method applied to heat conduction in complex media,\" AIAA Paper 98-2761, presented at the 7th AIAA\/ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference.<\/li><li>Rothmayer, A.P., and Smith, F.T., 1998, \"Incompressible triple-deck theory; Free-interactions and breakaway separation; Solution methods for two-dimensional, steady triple-deck problems,\" Part III, Chapters 23, 24 and 25, The Handbook of Fluid Dynamics, CRC Press, 1998.<\/li><li>Rothmayer, A.P., 1998, \"Supersonic breakaway separation past an adiabatic wavy wall,\" <em>AIAA Journal<\/em>, 36(4), April 1998, pp. 571-577.<\/li><li>Tsao, J.C., Rothmayer, A.P., and Ruban, A.I., 1997, \"Stability of air flow past thin liquid films on airfoils,\" <em>Computers &amp; Fluids<\/em>, 26(5), pp. 427-452.<\/li><li>Rothmayer, A.P., Black, D.W., and Hao, W. 1994, \"Asymptotic Reynolds-averaged closure of nonlinear ensembles,\" <em>IMA J. Appl. Math.<\/em>, 53, pp. 45-73.<\/li><li>Lynn, J., and Rothmayer, A.P., 1993, \"Viscous flows past short-scaled humps and surface blowing,\" <em>Eur. J. Mech., B\/Fluids<\/em>, 12(3), pp. 313-321.<\/li><li>Rothmayer, A.P., and Black, D.W., 1992, \"Ensembles of the Lorenz attractor,\" <em>Proc. Roy. Soc.<\/em>, A441, pp. 291-312.<\/li><li>Elliott, J.W., Rothmayer, A.P., and Smith, F.T., 1991, \"The structure of three-dimensional free-interactions in external, steady, compressible flows,\" <em>Eur. J. Mech. B\/Fluids<\/em>, 10(3), pp. 227-251.<\/li><li>Rothmayer, A.P., 1990, \"Zones of influence in a two-dimensional, unsteady, hypersonic, boundary layer,\" <em>Proc. Roy. 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