Walter H. Christiansen
Professor Emeritus
walt@aa.washington.edu
Office: 312 Guggenheim
Phone: (206) 685-3010
BS, Carnegie Institute of Technology
Professor Christiansen received his undergraduate degree in 1956 from Carnegie Institute of Technology. He received his doctorate in aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology in 1961. He spent a short tour of duty with the U.S. Army after graduation, and then took a position with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where his work was in the field of rarified gas flows and nonequilibrium plasmas. In 1967, he joined the Aerospace and Energetics Research Program at the University of Washington to work in the field of gas lasers, and shortly thereafter was voted a member of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, where he served as professor and department chair. While Professor Christiansen pursued research in lasers and their applications, his research interests also encompassed the field of nonequilibrium chemistry and gasdynamics.
Research Fields
- Energy Conversion
- Fluid Mechanics
- Gas Physics
- Hypersonics