Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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Address
2023 AL
1231 Beal, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2133
Phone: (734) 647-5338
Research Interests
Fluid mechanics, reduced-complexity modeling, data-driven modeling, flow control, aeroacoustics
Research Areas
Fluids, Multi-scale Computation
Faculty Type
Tenured and Tenure-Track
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Aaron Towne awarded Young Investigator Program award
10/18/2023
His project, “A Probabilistic Transition Model for Hypersonic Boundary Layers,” seeks to give designers of hypersonic military equipment better information about real-world flight conditions.
U-M Faculty Receive Award to Build AI-driven Scientific Computing Resources
04/05/2023
Congratulations to Venkat Raman, Alex Gorodetsky and Aaron Towne for receiving the DURIP award.
Aaron Towne receives NSF CAREER Award for work modeling turbulent flows
01/10/2023
Aaron Towne, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has won an NSF CAREER Award for his proposal, “Scale-dependent reduced-order models for turbulent flows,” which seeks to address society’s need for cheaper, more accessible turbulent flow modeling.
Aaron Towne Receives Young Investigator Program Award
10/14/2019
Assistant Professor Aaron Towne's research in resolvent-based estimation for control of turbulent aerodynamic flows earns him recognition from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
ME welcomes four new faculty members
06/22/2018
The ME department is pleased to welcome Xun (Ryan) Huan, David Kwabi, Serife Tol, and Aaron Towne, who are joining the faculty as assistant professors.