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Dr. J. Evans Lyne Associate Professor University of Tennessee, Knoxville Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering 414 Dougherty Hall Box 2210 Knoxville, T.N. 37996 Phone: 865.974.5254 Fax: 865.974.5274 Email: jelyne@utk.edu

Education

Ph.D, North Caroline State University,1991
MD, Vanderbilt, 1987
BS, Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt, 1981

Research Interests

Planning of advanced space missions, particularly manned missions to Mars; atmospheric entry of both natural and man-made bodies; hypersonic aerodynamics; meteor entry physics; three-dimensional protein structure; protein crystal growth and protein crystallography; physiology of human space flight.

Selected Publications

• A Parametric Study of Aerocapture for Missions to Venus, Scott Craig, James Evans Lyne, accepted for publication in The AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets.
  
  
• An Investigation of Titan Aerogravity Assist for Capture into Orbit About Saturn, AAS Paper 03-644, Philip Ramsey and James Evans Lyne, presented at the AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialists Conference, Aug. 2003, Big Sky, Montana. Also accepted for publication in The AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets.
  
  
• Thermodynamic Properties of Air to 100,000 Atmospheres and 100,000K, Thames, C., Kelly, D. and Lyne, J.E, The AIAA Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 127-128, 2001.
  
  
• Critical Need for a Swingby Return Option for Early Manned Mars Missions, Lyne, J.E. and Townsend, Lawrence, The AIAA Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 35, No. 6, pp. 855-56, Dec. 1998.
  
  
• A Computer Model of the Atmospheric Trajectory of the Tunguska Object, Lyne, J.E., Tauber, M.E., and Fought, R.M., Planetary and Space Science, Vol. 46, No. 2/3, pp. 245-252, 1998.