Dr. Andrew G. Godfrey earned a B.S. (1988) and Ph.D. (1992) in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Tech. As an undergraduate at Virginia Tech, he participated in the co-operative education program with NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA working on automation technology and transonic aerodynamics. Under the direction of Dr. Robert W. Walters, he began his graduate studies in computational fluid dynamics through a scholarship from the Virginia Space Grant Consortium. His graduate work focused on high-order reconstruction methods for the Navier-Stokes equations and characteristic preconditioning in collaboration with Professor Bram van Leer at University of Michigan. He began his professional career as a Research Scientist at AeroSoft in Blacksburg, VA. As part of the GASP development team at Aerosoft, he served as Principal Investigator on numerous SBIR/STTR projects sponsored by NASA, the Navy, and the Air Force related to turbulence modeling, hypersonic re-entry flows, low-speed preconditioning, gas-turbine noise reduction, continuous sensitivity equations, combustion instability and high-order methods for chemical oxygen-iodine lasers. Godfrey currently works as a Senior Research Engineer for Clemson's Computational Center for Mobility Systems, where he serves to develop unique capabilities in theoretical and computational aerodynamics.
Selected Publications
Godfrey, A.G. and Cliff, E.M., "Sensitivity Equations for Turbulent Flows," AIAA-2001-1060, Reno, NV, 2001.
Godfrey, A.G. and Cliff, E.M., "Direct Calculation of Aerodynamic Force Derivatives - A Sensitivity-Equation Approach," AIAA-1998-0393, Reno, NV, 1998.