The Late Prof. Yaakov Timnat (1923-2002)

Founder and Former Head, Propulsion and Combustion Lab (1965-1989)

Read About him in the Aerospace Engineering Site

Biographical Data

  • b. Italy, 1923. Deceased March 22, 2002, Israel.
  • M.Sc. Hebrew University, 1947.
  • Ph.D. Hebrew University, 1959.
  • Cornell University 1960-1961.
  • California Inst. of Technology, 1961-1962.
  • Senior Res. Officer, Armament Development Authority, 1951-1965.
  • Queen Mary College, London University, 1971-1972.
  • Princeton University 1978-1979.
  • Delft Technical University 1984-1985 and 1991-1992.
  • At Technion since 1965.
  • Head of Department, 1970-1971.
  • Professor since 1976.
  • Head of Space Research Institute 1985-1989.
  • Arizona State University, 1990-1991.

Main Interests

  • Combustion and detonation research
  • Rocket and jet propulsion
  • Gasdynamic lasers
  • Shock tube studies of high temperature gases
  • Low gravity combustion
  • Space research

Selected Publications

  • “Detonation of nitromethane”, J. Chem. Phys., 24, 1956, pp. 1074-1077 (with G. Nahmani).
  • “Electron density and ionization rate in thermally ionized gases produced by medium strength shock waves”, J. Fluid Mech., 6, 1959, pp. 449-461 (with W. Low).
  • “Relaxation and output calculations for a gas dynamic laser”, Int. Symp. Gasdynamics and Chemical Lasers, Koln, 1976, pp. 535-556, (with J. Stricker and K. Waichman).
  • “The self-adjustment mechanism model of scramjet combustors”, 19th Symposium (Int.) on Combustion, Haifa 1982, pp. 549-556 (with Y. Ramaty and E. Spiegler).
  • “Combustion of aluminium and boron slurry fuels in a dump combustor”, 19th Symposium (Int.) on Combustion, Haifa 1982, pp. 557-563 (with J. Peleg).
  • “Opposed-flow combustion of pulverized coal”, Comb. Flame, 61, 1985, pp. 119-130 (with Z. Hazanov and Y. Goldman).
  • “Diagnostic techniques for propulsion systems”, Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 26, 1989, pp. 153-156.
  • “The use of self-propagating high-temperature synthesis to obtain high-temperature semi- conductors”,Prospectives in Energy, 2, 1992-93, pp. 297-302 (with V. Rosenband).

Books

  • “Advanced Chemical Rocket Propulsion”, Academic Press, 1987, 286 p.
  • “Advanced Airbreathing Propulsion”, Orbit Book Co., 1995.