Category Archives: Misc
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 …
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Associate Professor and Tenure
This week I received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida. It is a privilege to research, teach, and perform service here. I’m looking forward to many more years of working with wonderful colleagues and friends. The best part of the work has been helping my …
Hypersonic Models
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.
Dryden, Prandt, von Kármán, and Tsien
Psautier de St Louis, 1270
Combustion
Nobody knows what the energy of the future will be but it will involve combustion.
On Teaching Philosophy
You asked me how should I best teach them. Should I teach them from the point of view of the history of science the applications? My theory is that the best way to teach is to have no philosophy. We must be chaotic and confuse them in the sense that you use every possible way …