PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS CURRENT STUDENTS ALUMNI FACULTY STAFF

This area involves study and research in experimental, theoretical, and computational aerodynamics, gas dynamics, turbulence, plasma dynamics, heat transfer, and combustion. Research is presently being conducted in nonequilibrium and rarefied gas flows, turbulence control, shock-boundary layer interactions, thermal and glow-discharge plasmas, turbulent mixing/combustion, nonlinear flow interactions, and advanced optical diagnostics and sensors. Facilities include Mach 2 and Mach 5 blowdown wind tunnels, a 1.25-second low-gravity drop tower, 5’ x 7’ low-speed wind tunnel, 15” by 20” water channel, laser sensor laboratory, combustion facilities, plasma engineering laboratory, and extensive laser and camera systems for advanced flow diagnostics. The excellent computational facilities include a variety of workstations and access to high-performance computers.

Faculty:

Noel Clemens:

• Fundamental Studies of Turbulent Combustion and Mixing
• Unsteadiness of Shock-induced Turbulent Separation
• Supersonic Cavity Flows

David Dolling:

• Experimental Gas Dynamics/Aerodynamics
• Hypervelocity Projectile Aerodynamics

David Goldstein:

• Development of Numerical Methods
• Applications of Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Detailed Flow Physics

Laxminarayan Raja:

• Low-temperature Glow Discharge Plasma

Venkat Raman:

• Turbulence & Combustion
• Large-Eddy Simulations
• Statistical Methods for Turbulent Reactive Flows
• Parallel Computations

Philip Varghese:

• Laser Based Sensors
• Flow Diagnostics Using Raman and Rayleigh Scattering
• Optimal Modeling of Nonequilibrium Flows
  

 

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Digital image of a turbulent non-premixed hydrogen jet flame.