(9/19/07) Juliett Davitian has won the 2007 AIAA Outstanding Aerospace Engineering M.S. Student Award.
Congratulations!

(06/07) Juliett Davitian has won the AE outstanding M.S. recipient award and Hann Mao has won the AE outstanding B.S. recipient award for 2007. Congratulations!

(06/06) Leo Alves has won the MAE outstanding PhD recipient award and Marcus George has won the AE outstanding MS recipient award for 2006. Congratulations!

(05/06) Ann Karagozian has completed chairing two studies for the Air Force.

(09/05) Juliett Davitian has won a three year NASA Graduate Student Research Program Fellowship, commencing in the Fall of 2005.

(5/05) Ann Karagozian has been appointed the Vice Chair of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.

(1/05) Srinivasan Dattarajan MS '02 , PhD '04 won the 2004 Best Student Presentation award from the AIAA Microgravity Technical Committee.

(5/12/04) Sevan Megerian Wins First Place at AIAA Student Conference, 2004.

(8/03) Lydia Treviño featured in UCLA Engineer—

(6/03) Robert Lobbia has received a special scholarship award from Aviation Week & Space Technology—the Next Century of Flight (NCF) award.

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Researchers: Prof. Ann Karagozian, Prof. Owen Smith, Prof. Xiaolin Zhong, Reza Tavassoli (grad), Le Duan (grad) Research Supported By:   NASA Dryden

The Phoenix Air Launched Small Missile (ALSM) flight testbed is proposed to meet requirements for relatively inexpensive, in-flight testing in the Mach 3-6 range. The ALSM could potentially fill a gap in flight test capabilities with respect to altitude and Mach number, as indicated in Figure 1, and would clearly provide useful data under flow conditions that are more realistic than in ground-based wind tunnel facilities.

Figure 1. Flight envelope for various high speed vehicles, including air-breathing vehicles such as the F-15B, X-43A, CIAM, and HyShot (from Bui, et al.).  The regime for the proposed ALSM platform is shown.

There are a variety of potential ALSM payload configurations that could be explored for their mixing and combustion characteristics in the supersonic-hypersonic transition regime.  These payloads are being evaluated in the current project, via simple modeling and numerical simulations.