This is the home page for the Hypersonics and Computational Aerodynamics Group of Professor Xiaolin Zhong in the Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of California,Los Angeles, California.
The Hypersonics and Computational Aerodynamics Group conducts research in the areas of the numerical simulation of high temperature nonequilibrium hypersonic flows, stability and transition of hypersonic reacting boundary layers, rarefied gas dynamics, low Reynolds number transonic flow over airfoils, high-order numerical algorithms, parallel computing of fluid flows, micro flow simulation in micro fuel cells, and MHD control of hypersonic boundary layer transition. The research projects are supported by research grants from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Air Force Research Laboratory, Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), and NASA.
Current computational facilities in our lab include an IBM SP-2 parallel supercomputer (model 9076-30A) of 14 160MHZ processors with a total of 3.5GB RAM and 63GB internal disk space. This computer is available exclusively to our research group for large-scale flow simulations. There is also one SGI workstation, 11 DEC alpha workstations, three IBM workstations, and four X-stations for data processing and flow visulization. We also use IBM SP-2 parallel computers in the Office of Academic Computing at UCLA and in Department of Defense computer centers.