CAPT Stuart R. Blair, Ph.D.

Permanent Military Professor
Assistant Professor
Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering Department
United States Naval Academy
590 Holloway Road
Annapolis, MD 21402-5042
410 293 5129
sblair@usna.edu

EDUCATION
    Naval Postgraduate School, 2012
    Doctor of Philosophy, Mechanical Engineering
    Dissertation: "Lattice Boltzmann Methods for Fluid-Structure Interaction"
    
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003
    Nuclear Engineer’s Degree
    Masters of Science, Nuclear Engineering
    Thesis: “Thermal Hydraulic Performance Analysis of a Small Integral
      Pressurized Water Reactor Core”
    
    United States Naval Academy, 1994
    Bachelors of Science, Naval Architecture

RESEARCH AREAS
Computational Fluid Dynamics
High Performance Computing
Structural Dynamics
Thermal-Hydraulics
Neutron Transport
Nuclear Reactor Design

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Permanent Military Professor, U.S. Naval Academy (Oct 2012 - Present)
Engineering Duty Officer, U.S. Navy, (May 2001 – Sep 2009)

• COMSUBFOR N430 Budget and Schedule Officer (Jul 2006 – Sep 2009)
• EDO Qualification tour – Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (Sep 2003 – Jun 2006)

Nuclear Trained Submarine Warfare Officer, U.S. Navy, (May 1994 - Apr 2001)

• Division Officer Tours: USS GRAYLING (SSN 646) and USS ANNAPOLIS (SSN 760)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• D. Allen, S. Blair, M. Millett, M. Nelson, "Evaluation of Non-Oxide Fuel for Fission-Based Nuclear Reactors on Spacecraft," Nuclear Technology, 2018, DOI:10.10800/00295450.2018.1524228.
• S. Pineda, S. Blair, E. Lunasin, C. Brownell, "Simulation of laser-induced equilibrium drop evaporation," American Physics Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics Annual Meeting, November 18-20, 2018.
• D. Allen, S. Blair, M. Millett, M. Nelson, "Temperature Coefficient of Reactivity Evaluation of a Compact Fast Reactor for Space Applications," Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space, Las Vegas, NV, 2018.
• S. Blair, C. Albing, A. Grund, A. Jocksch, "Accelerating an MPI Lattice Boltzmann code using OpenACC," Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Accelerator Programming using Directives, ACM, DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2832105.2832111
• S. Blair, Y. Kwon, “Modelling of Fluid-Structure Interaction Using Lattice Boltzmann and Finite Element Methods,” Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, 127(2):021302,2015.