Current Graduate Students
Matthew Schulz
Masters student 05/2024 – present
Yunus Karasu
Doctoral student 9/2023-present
“Experimental and Numerical Investigation of a
Hydrogen Rotating Detonating Engine”
co-advised with Dr. Scott Jackson.
Ciprian Comsa
Doctoral student 9/2022-present
“Rotordynamics of Labyrinth Seals”
Jay Standridge
Doctoral student 1/2022-present
“The Role of Second Law of Thermodynamics in
Deriving Turbulence Models and Simplified Reaction Kinetics”
Justin Schoppe
Doctoral student 8/2020-present
“Supersonic airplane morphing for sonic boom reduction”
Former Graduate Students
Name
Graduation Year
Employer
Giorgi Gvasalia
2024
Marshall McCray
2023
Jacobs
Elizabeth Krath
2021
Sandia National Laboratories
Michael Polewski
2020
Lockheed-Martin, GA.
Raymond Fontenot
2019
CFD-Research, Huntsville, AL.
Neil Matula
2019
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM.
David Liliedahl
2017
Rolls-Royce, Indianapolis, IN.
Robert Brown
2016
Associate Professor, Abilene Christian University
Forrest Carpenter
2016
NASA Armstrong, Edwards Air Force Base, CA.
Allen Ream
2015
United Launch Alliance
Michael Joly
2014
UTRC, East Hartford, CT
Brian Freno
2013
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM.
Nathan Jones
2012
U. S. Navy Naval Air Systems Command
Thomas Brenner
2011
General Electric, Evandale, OH.
Will Carter
2010
Gregory Worley
2010
Beechcraft Corporation
Brian Richardson
2008
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL.
Joaquin Ivan Gargoloff
2006
Exa Corporation, Burlington, MA.
Celerino Resendiz
2005
Professor, Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico, Pachuca, Mexico
Jason Guarnieri
2004
Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland AFB, NM.
Steven Chambers
2004
DARPA
Tao Yuan
2003
Professor at Ohio University, Athens, OH.
Corbett Hoenninger
2001
Sierra Nevada Corporation,
Englewood, CO.
Englewood, CO.
Joseph Collard, III
2000
Lockheed Martin, Forth Worth, TX.
Former Postdoctoral Researchers
Name
Year
Forrest Carpenter
2019
Thomas Brenner
2013
Horia Flitan
2003
Dragos Isvoranu
2001
Zhenxue Han
2000