Category: 2026

Congratulations to my friend and colleague Professor Stuart Laurence at the University of Maryland on his team’s publication Experimental study of fluid-thermal-structural interactions in a Mach-10 compression corner using super-ellipse-based photogrammetry in the Experiments in Fluids journal. Congratulations are also due to the entire NASA team, lead by Greg Buck, for their expertise in supporting the NASA Langley Mach-10 facility. We are grateful to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for the opportunity to conduct the research. Dr. Amanda Chou is the Program Officer. Bodony is the PI.

Congratulations to former PhD student and now Dr. Sandeep Murthy on his publication of Resolvent Analysis for Shock-Laden Flows in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Through detailed and inspired analysis, Sandeep shows how to properly interpret the input-output-gain structure of the linearized Navier-Stokes operator in the presence of a shock wave using inviscid, viscous, and vanishing viscosity arguments. A screenshot of the abstract and important figure is below, with more details in the above link.

The just-accepted paper “Petrov-Galerkin model reduction for collisional-radiative argon plasma,” written by (now Dr.) Ivan Zanardi and Dr. Alby Padovan was chosen by Physics of Plasmas for its Editor’s Pick! Congratulations Ivan and Alby!

Professor Bodony will give an invited lecture on Gas-Material Interactions for the NATO STO-AVT-358 LS on Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamic Methods for Hypersonic Flows, 1-4 December 2025. The Lecture Series has been rescheduled for 18-21 May 2026 and will be held at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Details on the 4-day lecture series, including the program and registration form, can be found at this link. A copy of the program is below.