Shane Ross is an assistant professor at Virginia Tech in the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department. He has received awards from NASA and the Americal Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics for his work on astrodynamics.

Dr. Shane D. Ross

Ph.D., Caltech, 2004 (thesis)
Shane Ross
  • Assistant Professor
  • Engineering Science and Mechanics
  • Virginia Tech
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    gravity tubes | atmospheric transport
    • A spatiotemporal movie of an atmospheric transport barrier (ATB). ATBs may play a role in the population structure of airborne microbes, controlling movement between geographically dispersed habitats. Work to test these hypotheses is underway.
    A 4D atmospheric transport barrier passes over VT
    Part of new interdisciplinary NSF project - see movie

    RESEARCH INTERESTS
     Dynamics & control
    Dynamical systems theory
    Theory and computations

    Applications to:
    Environmental flow analysis
    Transport & mixing
    Population dynamics
    Optimized trajectories
    Fuel-efficiency
    Efficient navigation
    Astrodynamics
    Bio-locomotion
    Chemical physics
    Chaotic advection
    Hamiltonian systems
    Dynamical astronomy
    RECENT NEWS

    January 2010 New paper on dynamcal boundaries in biomechanics, appearing in Chaos special issue on Lagrangian coherent structures

    December 2009 Interplanetary transport network: See these movies and maybe it will make more sense

    September 2009 Two articles on the interplanetary transport network in the British press: Times of London and Telegraph, based on presentation at British Science Festival on gravitational corridors

    August 2009 Ross and Schmale awarded NSF grant on Atmospheric Transport Barriers and the Biological Invasion of Toxigenic Fungi in the Genus Fusarium from the Division of Environmental Biology

    past news


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    Multi-moon orbiter switching orbit

    Movie accompanying new paper in Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics co-authored with Piyush Grover


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