David R. Boyle

Visiting Associate Professor, Nuclear Engineering

Director, NASA Commercial Space Center for Engineering, Texas Engineering Experiment Station

Date of Appointment: 1993
Office:
Phone: 979/845-8768
Fax: 979/847-8857
E-mail: dboyle@tamu.edu

Mailing Address: Texas A&M University
Department of Nuclear Engineering
3133 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3133

Education
Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980
M.A., National Security and Strategic Studies, U.S. Naval War College, 1990
M.S., Nuclear Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1972
B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 1971

Courses
SENG 674, System Safety

Areas of Interest
Safety and efficiency of plutonium storage and disposition approaches

Curriculum Vita

Publications

D. R. Boyle and C.A. Heath, "Report of the Evaluation Panel for Small Space Reactor Systems," U.S. Dept. of Energy Report, January 1988.

D. R. Boyle, "Needed: A DoD Position on Nuclear Reactors in Space," USAF Air Command and Staff College Report No. 86-0315, 31 pp., April 1986.

D. R. Boyle and M. W. Golay, "Measurement of a Recirculating Two-dimensional, Turbulent Flow and Comparison to Turbulence Model Predictions. I: Steady State Case," Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 105, pp. 439-446, (ASME Paper No. 83--WA/FE-8) December 1983.

D. R. Boyle and M. W. Golay, "Measurement of a Recirculating Two-dimensional, Turbulent Flow and Comparison to Turbulence Model Predictions. II. Transient Case," Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 105, pp. 447-454, (ASME Paper No. 83-WA/FE-9) December 1983.