Ph. D. Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology 2018. PhD Thesis Title: ``Coherent structures, their interactions, and their effects on passive scalar transport and aero-optic distortion in a turbulent boundary layer.'' Advisor: Beverley McKeon
M. S. Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology 2013
B. S. Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2012
Academic Positions
Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2019 - present
Postdoctoral Researcher, Fluid Mechanics Transport Phenomena at Princeton University 2017 - 2018. Advisor: Marcus Hultmark.
A. Parthasarathy, R. Nigam, A. Gupta, T. Elisabeth Kopperstad, T. Saxton-Fox. ``Supporting graduate women in engineering: approach and findings of a year-long program at UIUC.'' American Society of Engineering Education Conference 2023.
A. Parthasarathy, T. Saxton-Fox. ``Spectral analysis of a turbulent boundary layer encountering steady and unsteady complex pressure gradients.'' AIAA SciTech 2023.
T. E. Kopperstad, A. Borra, A. Beusse, C. Kim, E. Torres De Jesus, T. Saxton-Fox, P. Ansell. ``Design of Propellers with Passive Mitigation of Coherent Tip Vortex Roll-Up.'' AIAA SciTech 2023
M. Diaz, D. Yu, P. Ansell, T. Saxton-Fox. ``Acoustics of a Rotary Wing with Passive Reduced Tip Vortex in a Static Configuration.'' AIAA SciTech 2023
A. Parthasarathy, T. Saxton-Fox. ``Statistics of spatially- and temporally-accelerating turbulent boundary layers,'' International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena 2022.
A. Parthasarathy, E. Torres-De Jesus, T. Saxton-Fox. ``Time-resolved PIV data for a turbulent boundary layer at 600 Retau 2300,'' AIAA Aviation 2022.
A. Bhattacharyya, M. Bashqawi, S. Y. Kim, W. Zheng, T. Saxton-Fox, K. James. "Computational design and experimental testing of a flexible bi-stable airfoil for passive flow control," AIAA Aviation 2021.
A. Borra and T. Saxton-Fox. "Conditional POD and Space-Time POD for a Turbulent Boundary Layer with Passive Scalar Transport and Aero-Optic Distortion," AIAA Aviation 2021.
A. Parthasarathy, S. Suri, T. Saxton-Fox ``Modal analysis in curvilinear coordinates,'' International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 2020/2021.
T. Saxton-Fox and B. McKeon. "Modeling momentum and scalar transport in a wall-bounded turbulent
flow," International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena Proceedings. 2017.
T. Saxton-Fox and B. McKeon. "Scale interactions and 3D critical layers in wall-bounded turbulent
flows," International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Proceedings. 2016.
K. Rosenberg, T. Saxton-Fox, A. Lozano-Duran, A. Towne, and B. McKeon. "Toward low order models of wall turbulence using resolvent analysis," Proceedings of the 2016 Center for Turbulence Research Summer Program. 2016.
T. Saxton-Fox, B. McKeon, S. Gordeyev, and A. Smith. "Aero-optical distortion as a marker of turbulent structure," International Symposium
on Particle Image Velocimetry Conference Proceedings. 2015.
Recent Courses Taught
AE 100 BD1 (AE 100 BD2, AE 100 BL1, AE 100 C) - Intro to Aerospace Engineering