Thompson, Joe F.

Academic degree: PhD in Aerospace Engineering

Email: joe@pet.msstate.edu

Phone: +1 (662) 325 7299

Address: DoD PET Center, HPC2 P. O. Box 9627 Mississippi State, MS 39762

Joe F. Thompson joined the Aerospace Engineering faculty at Mississippi State University in 1964. He received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering as an NSF Science Faculty Fellow from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1971.

Education:

1971 Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Ph.D.
1963 Aerospace Engineering, Mississippi State University, M.S.
1961 Physics, Mississippi State University "Highest Honors", B.S.

Professional Memberships

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics(AIAA), Associate Fellow
International Society of Grid Generation
Tau Beta Pi
Phi Kappa Phi
IEEE Computer Society
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society
Mississippi State Academy of Sciences

http://www.ae.msstate.edu/site/pages/faculty/resumes.php?uid=20

Publications related to GridPro:

Algebraic-Elliptic Grid Generation

Eiseman P.R., Lu N., Jiang M., Thompson J.F.

Published in 1991

The control point form (CPF) of algebraic grid generation has been combined with elliptic grid generation to obtain smooth grid with less computational time and storage space. By first elliptically generating a sparse net of control points, we generate dense grids algebraically from the control net with the help of CPF. This new strategy of algebraic-elliptical grid generation proves to be much faster in time and and smaller in storage space than directly generating the dense grid elliptically.

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