Prof David W. Netzer
  Distinguished Professor
  Mail Code: 09
  Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AA)
  Monterey, CA 93943
 
Education
PhD:   Purdue, 1968
MS:  Purdue, 1962
BS:    Virginia Poly Inst, 1960
 
NPS Experience
  • 1996-Present: Associate Provost and ex-Dean of Research
  • 1994-1996: Distinguished Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • 1981-1994: Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
 
Other Experience
  • 1962 - 1964
    • Aerojet General Corp., Engineer
 
Research Interests
  • Aerospace propulsion and power
  • Rocket motor plume characteristics
  • Liquid and solid fuel ramjets
  • Pulse-detonation engines
 
Teaching Interests
  • Propulsion
  • Combustion
 
Boards
  • JANNAF Combustion Subcommittee
  • JANNAF Exhaust Plume Technology Subcommittee
  • US/France Data Exchange Agreement-Plumes
  • Chair, Technical Advisory Board for ONR Pulse Detonation Engine MURI Program
 
Selected Publications
  • Angus, W. J., Witt, M. A., Laredo, D., and Netzer, D. W., Solid Fuel Supersonic Combustion, La Recherche Aerospatiale, 1993, 6, Nov-Dec, 1-8.
  • Laredo, D., McCorie, II, J. D., Vaughn, J. K., and Netzer, D. W., Motor and Plume Particle Size Measurements in Solid Propellant Micromotors, J. Propulsion and Paser, Vol. 10, No. 3, May-June 1994, pp. 410-418.
  • Experimental and Analytical Methods for the Determination of Connected-Pipe Ramjet and Ducted Rocket Internal Performance, NATO/AGARD Propulsion and Energetics Panel Working Group 22, D. W. Netzer, Chairman, Advisory Report 323, July 1994.
  • Tactical Missile Propulsion, AIAA Prog. in Astronautics and Aeronautics, Vol. 170, 1996, editors, G. E. Jensen and D. W. Netzer
    Solid Fuel Ramjets, Chapt 13, pp. 469-493, S. Leisch and D. W. Netzer.
  • Natan, B. and Netzer, D. W., Boron Carbide Combustion in Solid-Fuel Ramjets Using Bypass Air Part I: Experimental Investigation Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics 21, 289-294 (1996).