Compressible Fluid Mechanics Lab

AE Alums Play Role in Phoenix Lander Mission

Three AE alumni participated in the successful landing of the Mars Phoenix Lander mission that touched down on the Martian northern arctic region on May 25, 2008

Voulgaris Awarded NCSA Fellowship

Aerospace Engineering Professor Petros Voulgaris has been awarded a National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Fellowship for his project, "Simulation-Based Performance and Robustness Analysis of Large Distributed Control Applications."

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September 08
AE 590 Seminar
From Red Cells to Skiing to a New Concept for an Airborne Jet Train that Flies on a Soft Porous Track at 700 km/hr

September 22
AE 590 Seminar
Methods for the Solution of Hybrid Optimal Control/Mission Planning Problems

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Faculty Researchers:	Location:	Phone:	Website:
Professor J. M. Austin	18 Talbot Laboratory	217-265-9845	Compressible Fluid Mechanics Lab

Description of Research:

Directed by Professor J. M. Austin. Experimental studies of high-speed flows, reacting and non-reacting. Current research includes the development of a high stagnation enthalpy expansion tube for study of hypervelocity flow with real gas conditions, studies of unsteady flow and waves at small scale, and investigation of shock-induced pore collapse relevant to energetic material ignition.