Lead, Physics Simulation and Modeling Office, NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division, Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.
Deputy Director of the Center for Turbulence Research, NASA Ames Research Center/Stanford University

Research Interests

Dr. Mansour research interests are in the physics and modeling of fluid flows including turbulence and drops & bubbles. His current projects are on fuel spray modeling and on Direct Numerical Simulation of transition at hypersonic speeds.

Recent Publications
 

Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Channel Flow up to Re=590, R. D. Moser, J. Kim, and N. N. Mansour, Phys. Fluids, 11 (4), pp. 943-945 (1999).

 
Parametrizing the growth rate influence of the velocity ratio in compressible reacting mixing layers, M. J. Day, W. C. Reynolds and N. N. Mansour, Phys. Fluids, 10 (10), pp. 2686-2688 (1998).

 
The structure of the compressible reacting mixing layer: Insights from linear stability analysis, M. J. Day, W. C. Reynolds, and N. N. Mansour, Phys. Fluids, 10 (4), pp. 993–1007 (1998).

 
Energy Transfer in Rotating Turbulence, C. Cambon, N. N. Mansour and F. S. Godeferd, J. Fluid. Mech., 337, pp. 303–322 (1997).

 
Rapid distortion theory for compressible homogeneous turbulence under isotropic mean strain, G. A. Blaisdell, G. N. Coleman and N. N. Mansour , Phys. Fluids, 8 (10), pp. 2692--2705 (1996).

 
Transition to turbulence in an elliptic vortex, T. S. Lundgren and N. N. Mansour , J. Fluid Mech., 307, pp. 43--62 (1996).

 
Topology of fine-scale motions in turbulent channel flow, H. M. Blackburn, N. N. Mansour and B. J. Cantwell , J. Fluid Mech., 310, pp. 269--292 (1996).