SwRI’s Nathan Andrews named AIAA Associate Fellow

October 7, 2024 - Southwest Research Institute's Nathan Andrews has been named an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). AIAA Associate Fellows are recognized for overseeing important engineering or scientific work and outstanding contributions to their field. To receive this honor, nominees must be recommended by at least three other associate fellows, be a senior member in good standing of the AIAA and have at least 12 years of professional experience. AIAA selects only one Associate Fellow for each 150 members each year.

"There are so many intelligent and dedicated individuals within AIAA, and I am honored to be recognized alongside them," Andrews said. "I get great satisfaction in reflecting on the many different flight programs that I have been a part of. Pushing the technological boundaries of microgravity fluid and liquid propulsion systems through the creation of unique designs is my passion, and it has rewarded me with a satisfying career."

Andrews is a program manager in SwRI's Propulsion and Energy Machinery Section. His work is primarily focused on liquid-fueled space launch vehicle pressurization system models, propellant slosh management and propellant management device design. He has also been working in the state of the art by applying design, analysis and testing techniques in these areas to cryogenic propellant.

Andrews' research interests also include heat transfer analyses for aircraft manufacturing applications and additive manufacturing for turbomachinery components. He has also conducted combustion and computational fluid dynamics analyses of supercritical carbon dioxide power cycles, contributed to NPSS® software development and developed fluid property prediction and simulation software for oil and gas applications.

"Nathan demonstrates a collaborative spirit and technical excellence in his role as a leader as well as in his expansion of SwRI's space fluids research and development projects," said Dr. Tim Allison, manager of SwRI's Machinery Department.

Andrews has bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Utah. He joined AIAA in 2017. He currently serves as chair of its Liquid Propulsion Technical Committee.

Andrews and the AIAA Class of 2025 Associate Fellows will be honored at a recognition ceremony in conjunction with the AIAA SciTech Forum(link is external) in Orlando, Florida, on January 8, 2025.

For more information, visit Machinery or Joanna Quintanilla, +1 210 522 2073, Communications Department, Southwest Research Institute, 6220 Culebra Road, San Antonio, TX 78238-5166.