Education
Smits received his Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia in 1970.
Smits received his Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia in 1970.
He is also the director of the Gas dynamics laboratory at Princeton. Subsequently he received his Doctor of Philosophy from Melbourne in 1975. Smits is an expert in the areas of turbulence and fluid mechanics, and is also the chief editor of Efluids.com, a website designed for students and researchers to share information about fluids.
He is also currently an associate editor for the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and the Journal of Turbulence.
Smits is the head of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Princeton University.