- Professor, Aerospace Engineering
- College of Engineering Excellence Professor
- Department Head, Aerospace Engineering
- Phone: 979-845-4184
- Email: ivett.leyva@tamu.edu
- Office: HRBB 710
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology - 1999
- M.S., Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology - 1995
- B.S., Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology - 1994
Research Interests
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- Hypersonic aerodynamics
Awards & Honors
- Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - 2021
- Meritorious Civilian Service Award and Medal, Air Force - 2020, 2019
- Fellow, Air Force Research Laboratory - 2019
- Commander Coin, Air Force Research Laboratory - 2019
- Team Award, Hypersonics Working Group, Air Force Office of Scientific Research,
- Technology Rising Star Award, Women of Color STEM Conference - 2015
- STEM Military and Civilian Hero Award, Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award Corporation - 2015
- W.R. Marshall Award, Institute for Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems - Americas - 2014
- Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - 2012
- National Associate, National Research Council of the National Academies - 2011
Selected Publications
- Leyva, I. A, "The relentless pursuit of hypersonic flight," Physics Today, Volume 70, Issue 11, Pages 30-36, November 2017
- Forliti, D.J., Wegener, J., Min, C., and Leyva, I.A., “Quantitative analysis of forced and unforced turbulent multiphase coaxial jets,” Journal of Fluids Engineering, V. 143, n. 1, 2021, 011406.
- Leyva, I. A, and Cummings R.M, "Introduction to the Special Section on the Boundary Layer Transition (BOLT) Flight Experiment, " Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 58, No. 1 (2021), pp. 4-5 doi: doi/abs/10.2514/1.A34872.
- Jewell, J., Leyva, I.A., Shepherd, J.E., “Turbulent spots in hypervelocity flow,” Experiments in Fluids, 58, 32 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00348-017-2317-y.
- Jewell, J., Parziale, N., Leyva, I, Shepherd, J., “Effects of Shock-Tube Cleanliness on Slender-Body Hypersonic Instability and Transition Studies at High-Enthalpy,” AIAA Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1, 2016.
- Badakhshan, A., Danczyk, S., Forliti, D., Leyva, I.A., Talley, D., “Nano-ignition Torch Applied to Cryogenic H2/O2 Coaxial Jet,”, AIAA 2016-0184.
- Forliti, D., Badakhshan, A., Wegener, J., Leyva, I.A., Talley, D., “The Response of Cryogenic H2/O2 Coaxial Jet Flames to Acoustic Disturbances,” AIAA 2015-1607.
- Parziale, N., Jewell, J., Leyva, I, Shepherd, J., Hornung, H., “Effects of Shock-Tube Cleanliness on Slender-Body Hypersonic Instability and Transition Studies at High- Enthalpy,” AIAA 2015-1786.
- Fedorov, A., Soudakov, V., Leyva, I. A., “Stability analysis of high-speed boundary-layer flow with gas injection,” AIAA 2014-2498.
- Wegener, J., Forliti, D., Leyva, I.A., Talley, D., “Receptivity of a Cryogenic Coaxial Gas-Liquid Jet to Acoustic Disturbances,” AIAA 2014, 3487.
- Wegener, J.,Leyva, I.A., Forliti, D., Talley, D., “Development of a Facility for Combustion Stability Experiments at Supercritical Pressure,” AIAA 2014-137.