Focus Areas
- Aero-optics
- Aerodynamics
- Combustion
- Flight dynamics
- Flight test
- Ground test facilities and diagnostics
- High-temperature nonequilibrium aerothermochemistry and plasmas
- Modeling and simulation
- Scramjet propulsion and fuel injection
- Thermal protection
- Viscous flows (transition and turbulence
Faculty and Research Staff
Rodney Bowersox
- Deputy Director, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
- Senior Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering
- Executive Director, University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics
- Director, Texas A&M National Aerothermochemistry and Hypersonics Laboratory
- Professor, Aerospace Engineering
- Member, National Academy of Engineering
- Regents Professor
- Ford Motor Co. Design Professorship I
- Office: HRBB 417A
- Phone: 979-845-0139 (AERO); 979-458–6811 (ZACH)
- Email: bowersox@tamu.edu
Arthur Dogariu
- Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering
- Office: HRBB 746C
- Phone: 979-458-1825
- Email: adogariu@tamu.edu
Diego Donzis
- Associate Department Head for Research
- Professor, Aerospace Engineering
- Presidential Impact Fellow
- Office: HRBB 605
- Phone: 979-862-2427
- Email: donzis@tamu.edu
Swagnik Guhathakurta
- Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering
- Office: HRBB 743B
- Email: swagnik@tamu.edu
Scott Jackson
- Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering
- Office: HRBB 743C
- Phone: 979-845-1694
- Email: sij@tamu.edu
Boris Leonov
- Research Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering
- Office: ALLEMO 205
- Phone: 979-845-0003
- Email: bleonov@tamu.edu
Ivett Leyva
- Associate Dean for Research, Texas A&M-Fort Worth
- Professor, Aerospace Engineering
- Arthur McFarland Professor, Aerospace Engineering
- Office: HRBB 710
- Phone: 979-845-4184
- Email: ivett.leyva@tamu.edu
Richard Miles
- Professor, Aerospace Engineering
- Member, National Academy of Engineering
- University Distinguished Professor
- O'Donnell Foundation Chair V
- Office: HRBB 607B
- Phone: 979-458-2534
- Email: rmiles@tamu.edu
Farhan Siddiqui
- Research Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering
- Office: HRBB 414C
- Email: siddiqui@tamu.edu
Narendra Singh
- Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering
- Office: HRBB 602B
- Email: narsingh@tamu.edu
Nathan Tichenor
- Research Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering
- Chief Research Officer, Bush Combat Development Complex
- Director of Hypersonic Facilities, Bush Combat Development Complex
- Office: HRBB 616B
- Phone: 979-317-1303
- Email: ntichenor@tamu.edu
Albina Tropina
- Research Professor, Aerospace Engineering
- Office: HRBB 607A
- Phone: 979-845-0716
- Email: atropina@tamu.edu
Bret P. Van Poppel
- Professor of Practice, Aerospace Engineering
- Office: HRBB 414B
- Phone: 979-458-5703
- Email: vanpoppel@tamu.edu
Laboratories and Facilities
Ballistic, Aero-optics, and Materials (BAM) Range
The Ballistic, Aero-optics, and Materials (BAM) Range at the George H.W. Bush Combat Development Complex is a large-scale, fully enclosed multi-disciplinary research and development facility capable of evaluating optical propagation (including high-energy lasers), true hypersonic aerothermodynamics, and hypervelocity impact response of materials and structures. This is accomplished within a fully characterized range that can achieve controllable atmospheric conditions. The 565-meter-long Phase I configuration is currently operational, with a 1km Phase II configuration under development. The BAM Range will be the largest and most fully instrumented facility of its kind in the United States and is available for academic, industry, and government collaborations.
Faculty Supervisor: Nathan Tichenor
Website: bcdc.tamus.edu/facilities/bam
National Aerothermochemistry and Hypersonic Flight Laboratory
The mission of the National Aerothermochemistry and Hypersonics Laboratory (NAHL) is to provide a venue for advanced basic and applied research in non-equilibrium hypersonic gaseous flows and their surface interactions, with applications in hypersonic aerodynamics and propulsion. Originally founded in 2004 as the National Aerothermochemistry Laboratory (NAL), the NAHL is celebrating 20 years of serving the students, faculty, and staff of Texas A&M University. Our approach is founded in advanced modeling, simulation, and experimentation.
Faculty Supervisor: Rodney Bowersox
Website: nal.tamu.edu