Shock-boundary layer interactions within rocket nozzles
This project combines physical and analytical modeling and high-speed schlieren imaging to better understand shock-boundary layer interactions in supersonic rocket nozzle flows. Collaborators: Professors Peter Tkacik and Nilabh Srivastava, and PhD student Karen Thorsett-Hill.
High speed color schlieren video of rocket nozzle blow down
Shock-train structure in experimental rocket nozzle
Stochastic ascent dynamics of sounding rockets
Here, we’re developing high-level numerical, physical, and mathematical models which capture the effects of random nozzle side loads, random winds, random thrust variations, and deterministic aerodynamic loads on rocket ascent dynamics. Collaborators: Professors Peter Tkacik and Nilabh Srivastava.
Green’s function-stochastic process approaches for linear and nonlinear evolution problems
Useful connections between Green’s functions and stochastic processes are being developed and exploited. This work is being carried out in collaboration with PhD student Thomas Nortey.
Modeling material ablation and strongly ionized hypersonic boundary layers near meteoroids
This new project aims to better understand the extreme, non-equilibrium conditions that exist within the thin, extreme-hypersonic (Mach numbers on the order of 30-40) boundary layers adjacent in-atmosphere meteoroids. This project is being done in collaboration with MS student John Tomsyk.
Blast-structure interactions – ISERRT
In collaboration with Professor David Weggel (Civil Engineering, UNC Charlotte)
