In collaboration with the Center for Hypersonics and Entry System Studies, several post-doctoral opportunities are available. The full announcement is available here.
Author: bodony@illinois.edu
AFP Group Starts New Project on Differential Ablation with DoE
Building on our group’s success in modeling ablative systems and studying linear stability, we combined those capabilities to study the physical origins of differential ablation, found on many ablative systems but as-yet not fully explained. We are excited to work with our DoE partners at Sandia National Laboratory.

Bodony gives invited talk at APS March 2024 Focus Session

Professor Bodony delivered the keynote presentation at the APS March 2024 Meeting in the Focus Session on Extreme-Scale Computational Science Discovery in Fluid Dynamics and Related Disciplines. (Title slides is at left.) This collective work is solely the output of several excellent students and post-docs, listed at left.
Bodony on Scientific Committee for 2024 Aeroacoustics Symposium
Immediately following the 2024 AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Meeting, an ERCOFTAC 39 Symposium will discuss Coherent Structures in Aeroacoustics. Bodony is part of the symposium’s Scientific Committee. Check out the CFP and consider submitting a contribution!

Bodony and collaborators to present several papers at AIAA SciTech 2024
Bodony, collaborators, and students will present our research on jet noise, FTSI, numerical methods, and plasma torch modeling at the 2024 AIAA SciTech meeting in Orlando, FL. Come check us out!
- Upadhye, C. and Bodony, D. J. “Investigating Fluid-Thermal-Structure Interactions of Hypersonic Control Fins,” AIAA Paper 2024-0935, Presented at the AIAA SciTech 2024 Forum, Orlando, FL, 8-12 January 2024.
- Kumar, S., Munafò, A., Stephani, K. A., Bodony, D. J., and Panesi, M. “Modeling three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic phenomena in inductively coupled plasma discharges,” AIAA Paper 2024-1648, Presented at the AIAA SciTech 2024 Forum, Orlando, FL, 8-12 January 2024.
- Sirmalla, P. R., Munafò, A., Kumar, S., Bodony, D. J., and Panesi, M. “Modeling the plasma jet in the Plasmatron X ICP facility,” AIAA Paper 2024-1685, Presented at the AIAA SciTech 2024 Forum, Orlando, FL, 8-12 January 2024.
- Woo, J., Murthy, S. R., and Bodony, D. J. “Resolvent-based framework for jet noise reduction of a low-bypass ratio coannular nozzle,” AIAA Paper 2024-2805, Presented at the AIAA SciTech 2024 Forum, Orlando, FL, 8-12 January 2024.
- Vollmer, B. and Bodony, D. J. “A procedure for obtaining steady-state solutions with WENO through sensitivity tuning and dynamic control,” AIAA Paper 2024-2863, Presented at the AIAA SciTech 2024 Forum, Orlando, FL, 8-12 January 2024.
New paper “Data-Driven Unsteady Aerodynamic Modeling for Fluid-Structure Interaction” by Fellows!
Congratulations to Dr. David Fellows on the acceptance of his publication “Data-Driven Unsteady Aerodynamic Modeling for Fluid-Structure Interaction” in the AIAA J.
Post-doctoral research scholar positions open
Fikl’s paper on adjoint-based control of droplets
Congratulations to Dr. Alex Fikl on his paper “Adjoint-based Control of Three Dimensional Stokes Droplets” accepted for publication in the Journal of Computational Physics.
Paper on ablating surface modeling by Padovan, Vollmer, et al.
Dr. Alby Padovan and Mr. Blaine Vollmer had their paper titled “A Modified Formulation for Ablating-Surface Boundary Conditions” accepted for publication in the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.
Congratulations to Paul P. for passing his qualifying exam!
Congratulations to Paul P. for passing his AE qualifying exam. He’s now ready for the full-on PhD experience.