kgonth1@lsu.edu
Office: 3250F PFT
(225) 578-5915
Keith A. Gonthier
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Nader Sabbaghian Professorship in Mechanical Engineering
PhD, University of Notre Dame (1996)
Expertise
Shock physics 鈥� detonation 鈥� multiphase compressible flow 鈥� computational mechanics.
Biographical Sketch
Keith Gonthier is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at 海角社区 (海角社区). He received a BS degree in biochemistry from 海角社区 in 1988, a BS degree in aerospace engineering from Auburn University in 1990, and a PhD degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1997. Prior to joining the faculty at 海角社区 in 2001, he was a postdoctoral research associate in high-explosive physics at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Lamar University. Since joining 海角社区, Professor Gonthier has been a visiting scientist with LANL, and a faculty fellow, visiting scientist, and senior research associate with the Munitions Directorate of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Eglin AFB. His expertise is in the theory, modeling, and computation of gas phase and multiphase detonation, multiscale modeling and simulation of shock waves in heterogeneous solids, and modeling and simulation of explosively and pyrotechnically actuated devices. He is a Senior Member of AIAA and serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Propulsion and Power.
Key Publications
- Poynot, W. J., Gonthier, K. A., and Dunham, M. E., 2020, 鈥淐lassification of Laryngotracheal Stenosis in Children based on Computational Aerodynamics,鈥� Journal of Biomechanics, 104, 109752 (doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2020.109752)
- Chakravarthy, S. N., and Gonthier, K. A., 2016, 鈥淎nalysis of Microstructure-Dependent Shock Dissipation and Hot-Spot Formation in Granular Metalized Explosive,鈥� Journal of Applied Physics, 120(2):024901 (doi: 10.1063/1.4956302)
- Rao, P. T., Gonthier, K. A., and Chakravarthy, S., 2016, 鈥淐ompaction Shock Dissipation in Low Density Granular Explosive,鈥� Journal of Applied Physics, 119(22):224904 (doi: 10.1063/1.4953650)
- Crochet, M. W., and Gonthier, K. A., 2015, 鈥淎 Multi-Phase Theory for the Detonation of Granular Explosives Containing an Arbitrary Number of Solid Components,鈥� International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 77:76-89 (doi: 10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2015.08.004)
- Panchadhar, R., and Gonthier, K. A.}, 2010, 鈥淢esoscale Analysis of Volumetric and Surface Dissipation in Granular Explosive Induced by Uniaxial Deformation Waves,鈥� Shock Waves, 21(1):43-61 (doi: 10.1007/s00193-010-0287-6)