SANFORD DAVIS - NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER

MS 260-1, Moffett Field, CA 94035
Phone:  650-604-4197     Fax:  650-604-6779     Email:  Sanford.S.Davis@nasa.gov

Title and Role

Co-Investigator - Responsible for dynamics and global transport in protoplanetary disk processes.

Related Experience Summary

Solar system formation processes: development of high fidelity simulations of protoplanetary nebulae. Numerical methods for gas dynamics: high resolution algorithms for diffusive and convective transport. Analytical modeling of nebula evolution including transport of chemical species.

Employment History

1999 to Present - Ames Research Center, NASA, Space Sciences
1971 to 1999 - Ames Research Center, NASA, Aeronautics
1981 to 1998 - Chief, Fluid Mechanics Laboratory Branch

Education

Columbia, New York City, M.S. in Engineering Mechanics, 1965
Columbia, Eng. Sc. D. in Engineering Mechanics, 1969

Professional Societies

Founding member of the NASA/Stanford Joint Institute for Aeroacoustics, 1971
Member, AIAA Publications Committee, 1981
Reviewer for AIAA J, J of Fluid Mech, Phys. of Fluids, J. of Comp. Physics, ApJ
Organize Poster Sessions, Exhibitors at DPS Sept 2003

Awards and Honors

AIAA Associate Fellow, 1979
ASME/AIAA Structures and Material best paper award, 1980
H. L. Dryden Fellowship at Stanford, 1980-81
NASA Exceptional Service Medal, 1992
Ames Honor Award for Management Excellence, 1998

Selected Relevant Publications

Davis, S., Sheehan, D. and Cuzzi, J. (2000) On the Persistence of Small Regions of Vorticity in the Protoplanetary Nebula. Astrophysical Journal, 545, 494-503,

Davis, S. S.  (2002).  A note on conservation laws for Keplerian disks.  Astrophysical Journal Suppl, 140: 581-588.

Davis, S. S.  (2002).  Vorticity induced wave motion in a compressible protoplanetary disk.  Astrophysical Journal, 576: 450-461.

Davis, S. S.  (2003).  A simplified model for an evolving protoplanetary nebula.  Astrophysical Journal, (submitted)

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