Shane Ross, professor of dynamical systems at Virginia Tech in Engineering Science and Mechanics Department. His research has been supported by the NSF and NASA, and he has received awards from NASA and the Americal Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics for his work on astrodynamics.

Dr. Shane D. Ross

PhD Caltech 2004, Advisor: Marsden
Shane Ross
  • Assistant Professor of Dynamical Systems
  • Engineering Science and Mechanics
  • Virginia Tech
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    Papers | Books | Movies | Talks | CV | Students

    gravity | atmospheric transport | aerobiolgy

    Ross has been cited over 600 times, with h-index 12
    • 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.
    An atmospheric transport barrier passes over VT.
    See funded NSF project links at left, below - see movie

    RESEARCH INTERESTS
     Dynamics & control
    Dynamical systems theory
    Theory and computations

    Funded Projects:
    NSF CAREER Phase space transport
    NSF CMMI Aerobiological mixing
    NSF IGERT MultiSTEPS
    NSF BIO Barriers and invasions
    NSF EFRI Insect fluid control

    Applications to:
    Environmental flow analysis
    Airborne microbe spread
    Pollution dispersion
    Topology of transport
    Stirring & mixing
    Lagrangian coherent structutres
    Almost-invariant sets
    Almost-cyclic sets
    Population dynamics
    Optimal control
    Fuel-efficiency
    Efficient navigation
    Astrodynamics
    Bio-locomotion
    Chemical physics
    Chaotic advection
    Hamiltonian systems
    Dynamical astronomy
    RECENT NEWS

    January 2012 Ross receives NSF CAREER Award through the Dynamical Systems program. Read the press release.

    November 2011 Ross has new paper in the journal American Biology Teacher on teaching high school students about how barriers shape where organisms go, with Cindy Bohland and David Schmale

    October 2011 Ross gave talk at the Society of Engineering Science meeting, available here, at session on Vortex Dynamics and Future Directions in Fluid Dynamics in Honor of Hassan Aref.

    October 2011 Ross's academic genealogy. Some notables are Copernicus, Erasmus, Leibniz, Jacob & Johann Bernoulli, Euler, Lagrange, Laplace, Dirchlet, Fourier, Poisson, and Gauss.

    September 2011 New paper and accompanying press release on new NSF project on long-distance dispersal of airborne microbes. Our paper is listed as higlighted research on the Chaos journal website.

    past news


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    • Airborne pathogen spread

    Read the press release on recent work studying the spread of airborne pathogens, microbes and contagions.
    Read the full paper here

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