Current Projects (Facility, Graduate Student Responsible)

• Fluid-structure interactions (Ludwieg tube, Mallory)
• Diagnostic implementation of Planar Laser Induced Fluorescense over the Double Wedge (HET, Nelson)
• Blunt body aerothermodynanmics in CO2 (HET and T5, Matt)
• Advancing transition experiments in high enthalpy flows (HET and T5, Joel)

Past Projects in T5

• Hypervelocity Boundary Layer Instability Measurements
• Characterization of free stream noise environment in T5
• Real Gas Effects in Hypervelocity Boundary Layer Transition
• The Effect of Forebody Geometry on Turbulent Heating and Thermal Protection System Sizing for Future Mars Mission Concepts
• Proximal bodies in hypersonic flow
• Passive hypervelocity boundary layer control using an acoustically absortive surface
• Laser-induced thermal acoustic velocimetry
• The instability of shear layers produced by curved shocks
• Shock detachment process on cones in hypervelocity flows
• Gaseous detonation initiation and stabilization by hypervelocity projectiles
• Numerical simulation of viscous reacting hypersonic flow past cones
• High-enthalpy shock/boundary-layer interaction on a double wedge
• Enthalpy effects on hypervelocity boundary layers
• Shock wave interaction in hypervelocity flow
• Laser-induced thermal acoustics
• Calibration and study of the contoured nozzle of the T5 free-piston hypervelocity shock tunnel
• Hypervelocity flow over spheres
• The boundary layer on a sharp cone in high-enthalpy flow
• Hypervelocity dissociating flow over a spherically blunted cone
• Studies of mixing and combustion in hypervelocity flows with hot hydrogen injection

Past Projects in the Ludwieg Tube

• Gas Injection in Supersonic Flow (see Schmidt's thesis)
• Supersonic Retropropulsion
• Proximal bodies in supersonic flow
• Regular/Mach reflection transition