Barry Butler

Professor Emeritus, Mechanical Engineering
Biography

Publications: 

Google Scholars Citation Record

Publications, Citations, h-index, i10-index

Joined the College of Engineering: 1984

Active Scientific and Professional Society Memberships: 

  • Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Member, The Combustion Institute
  • American Society for Engineering Education
  • Society of Automotive Engineers
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • American Wind Energy Association

Special Fields of Knowledge: 

  • Thermophysics of condensed-phase energetic materials
  • Multiphase reactive flow
  • Shock physics
  • Thermodynamics of reactive processes

Research Areas:

  • Ignition phenomena in energetic materials
  • Real-gas thermochemical processes
  • Reaction in supercritical water medium
  • Detonation of gas and condensed-phase media
Engineering Unit(s)
  • Mechanical Engineering
Barry Butler
Education
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1984
MS, Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981
BS, Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1979