Chris L. Pettit

Adjunct Research Professor

• B.S., M.S. (UCLA), M.S., Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins), P.E.
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Professor Pettit is currently a professor and Chair of the Aerospace Engineering Department at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD. His research interests involve nonlinear dynamical systems, stochastic phenomena, system identification, uncertainty quantification, fluid-structure interaction, design optimization and experimental techniques which have applications in structural dynamics, wind engineering, aeroelasticity of buildings, bridges and air vehicles, seismic wave propagation, near-ground atmospheric sound propagation and battlefield sensor performance forecasts.

Graduate Students

• Sandhu, Rimple Ph.D. (2020) co-supervised with Dr. Abhijit Sarkar and Dr. Dominique Poirel Model Comparison and Sparse Learning of Nonlinear Physics-Based Models Using Bayesian Inference
• Desai, Ajit Ph.D. (2019) co-supervised with Dr. Abhijit Sarkar and Dr. Dominique Poirel Scalable Domain Decomposition Algorithms for Uncertainty Quantification in High Performance Computing
• Robinson, Brandon Michael George M.A.Sc. (2018) co-supervised with Dr. Abhijit Sarkar Aeroelastic oscillations of a pitching cantilever wing with structural geometric nonlinearities: theory, numerical simulation and global sensitivity analysis
• Rocha Da Costa, Leandro Jose M.A.Sc. (2017) co-supervised with Dr. Abhijit Sarkar and Dr. Dominique Poirel Nonlinear Aeroelastic Modeling of a Flexible Wing and Comparison with Experiments
• Chajjed, Sandip M.A.Sc. (2016) co-supervised with Dr. Abhijit Sarkar and Dr. Dominique Poirel Probabilistic Prediction of Coalescence Flutter Using Measurements: Application to the Flutter Margin Method