Congratulations to Dr. Alex Carr on Defending his Ph.D.

My graduate student, Alex Carr, defended his dissertation on sonic boom through the turbulent atmosphere. Title: SONIC BOOM PROPAGATION IN THE TURBULENT ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER Abstract: Sonic boom waveforms measured at ground level exhibit variability due to scattering and diffraction caused by the presence of turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL). Sonic boom propagation …

Laws of Thermodynamics

A long time ago, the running joke of the three laws of thermodynamics was introduced. They are the following: You cannot win. You cannot break even. You cannot get out of the game.

BOLT2

Congratulations to the entire BOLT2/NASA/AFRL hypersonics boundary layer transition flight-test team on their successful launch yesterday.