NDSEG Fellowship: Ned Feist
Congratulations to Ned Feist for being awarded a competitive NDSEG Fellowship! Since 1989, NDSEG fellowships have been awarded to approximately 4,700 students out of over 70,000 applicants, a rate of under 7% on average. (NDSEG Webpage)
Proposal: Characterization of Hypersonic Boundary Layer Flow over a Cratered Body
VKI Lecture Series
Pramod Subreddy represented the UMN CHRL at the Von Karman Institute lecture series on Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics Methods for Hypersonic Flows, held March 25-29 2024 in Brussels, Belgium. More information can be found at https://www.vki.ac.be/index.php/events-ls/events/eventdetail/577/-/advanced-computational-fluid-dynamics-methods-for-hypersonic-flows-vki-ls-and-sto-ls-avt-358
UCAH Spring Technical Exchange 2024
Daniel Pekurovsky & Ned Feist (advised by Prof. Graham Candler) and Sahadeo Ramjatan (advised by Prof. Tom Schwartzentruber) participated in the University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics Spring Technical Exchange March 11-14 in College Station, Texas. Projects worked on by the team include variable-inlet scramjet design and high-fidelity infrared signature modeling of hypersonic vehicles. Ned Feist gave a technical talk and presented a poster.
Additional information can be found at https://web.cvent.com/event/f3ff4a7f-9efd-4361-982d-e3561ace776d/summary
AIAA Scitech 2024
UMN Computational Hypersonics Research Lab students, faculty, and recent graduates authored and/or co-authored 16 papers at the AIAA Scitech forum January 8-12 in Orlando, Florida. Highlights include a session on turbulence and transition comprised fully of CHRL presenters, led by Prof. Graham Candler.
The full program can be found at https://eppro02.ativ.me/src/EventPilot/php/express/web/planner.php?id=AIAASCITECH24
Graduation: Dr. Joseph Habeck
13 December, 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Habeck for successfully defending his doctoral dissertation! Joey will begin working at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
Dissertation: Characterizing Stratospheric Aerosol Particles and Particle Effects on Hypersonic Flight Vehicles
Graduation: Dr. Tyler Hendrickson
30 November, 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Hendrickson for successfully defending his doctoral dissertation! Tyler will begin working at the University of Minnesota as a Research Associate.
Dissertation: Compressible Corrections for Turbulence Models in High Speed Boundary Layer Flows
Lockheed Martin Visits UMN
18 July, 2023: Lockheed Martin visited the University of Minnesota to meet with students and faculty doing groundbreaking research and development in the areas of hypersonics, microelectronics and robotics.
Graduation: Dr. Chiara Amato
20 July, 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Amato for successfully defending her doctoral dissertation! Chiara will begin working at the German Aerospace Center.
Dissertation: Numerical Analysis of the Diffusive Transport Phenomena in Hypersonic Flows
Peter Yip wins commendation at Department Symposium
28 April, 2023: Congratulations to Peter Yip for winning Best Presentation at the AEM Graduate Symposium!
Poster: Multi-Scale Damage Evolution on Hypersonic Flight Vehicles
Graduation: Dr. Olivia Schroeder
10 April, 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Schroeder for successfully defending her doctoral dissertation! Olivia will begin working at the NASA Ames Research Center.
Dissertation: Multi-Physics Modeling of Ablative Processes
Graduation: Dr. Zachary Johnston
28 October, 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Johnston for successfully defending his doctoral dissertation! Zach will begin working at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
Dissertation: Hypersonic Simulations and Analysis of Transition to Turbulence on BoLT-2
Graham Candler Inducted into National Academy of Engineering
On October 20, 2022 Professor Graham Candler was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering, reflecting a lifetime of high achievement and dedication to the field of hypersonics. More information can be found at https://www.nae.edu/224672/Professor-Graham-V-Candler
Zachary Johnston wins commendation from University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics
6 April, 2022: Zach was a finalist in the student poster competition at the University Consortium for Applied Hypersoncics spring forum at Texas A&M.
Graham Candler - Stillwell Lecture
21 October, 2019: Graham V. Candler gave the second of four H.S. Stillwell Memorial Lectures on Monday, Oct. 21 at the University of Illinois. Candler is the McKnight Presidential Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics at the University of Minnesota His talk was entitled, " Boundary Layer Stability Analysis of the BOLT Hypersonic Flight Experiment." The H.S. Stillwell Memorial Lecture was established in honor of Professor H.S. (Shel) Stillwell. In 1944, when he was 27 years old, he founded the Department of Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Illinois. He was the department head for 32 years. Stillwell was influential in the design of the first ramjet-powered missile and highly respected for his contributions to aerospace engineering education. The Dept. of Aerospace Engineering typically hosts one Stillwell speaker each year. During the 2019-20 academic year, the department will host four in celebration of the department's 75th anniversary.
Hypersonic Center of Excellence established at the University of Minnesota
September 2011: The Center of Excellence in Hypersonics Research was established to support future hypersonic vehicle development programs. The Center engaged leading experts in experimental and computational analysis of hypersonic flows to provide research, education, and technology development in hypersonics. The Center combined the worlds premiere hypervelocity testing facility at the CUBRC with state-of-the-art computational simulation methods at the University of Minnesota to rapidly advance the field of hypersonics. The Center supported fundamental research in hypersonics, including the development of high-quality experimental databases for code testing and validation of prediction tools. Many of these codes have been transferred to government and industry to enable optimized hypersonic vehicle designs. The Center also supported a rigorous graduate program that transferred technical capabilities from the previous generation of hypersonics experts to new students in the field. This helped preserve the nations dwindling talent pool and provided a source of scientists and engineers for future research and development programs.