Current Group Research

Research Focus

There are several areas in which the Hypersonics and Computational Aerodynamics Group is currently working on. For a more in depth description of each individual project, select from the list below.

Current Research Activities

High-Order Accurate Computations of Inviscid Hypersonic Flows for Aerodynamic Heating Analysis (Theodore K. Lee)
DNS of Low Reynolds Number Transitional Separated Flows (Mahidhar Tatineni)
DNS of Gortler Instability and Transition in Hypersonic Boundary Layer Flows (Chong Whang)
DNS of Nonequilibrium Real Gas Effects on Hypersonic Boundary Layer Stability (Yanbao Ma)
Parallel Algorithms for Implicit Numerical Simulations of Unsteady Flows (Haibo Dong)
MHD Control of High-Speed Flow Transition (Felix Cheng)

Past Research Activities

Numerical Simulations of Unsteady Nonequilibrium Hypersonic Flows (Gregory H. Furumoto)
Stability and Receptivity of Hypersonic Boundary Layers, DNS and Linear Analysis (Sean H. Hu, Haibo Dong, Chong W. Whang)