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  1. Aerodynamic Design Optimization for Natural Laminar Flow Airfoils

    Article • July 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Meelan Choudhari, Pedro Paredes

  2. Roughness Element Patterns for Control of Instability in Mach 6 Quiet Flow

    Article • July 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Pedro Paredes

  3. Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Transition over a Blunt Circular Cone in a Mach 8 Digital Wind Tunnel

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Pedro Paredes, Dr. Meelan Choudhari

  4. Grid Refinement Techniques for the γ-Reθt Transition Model in FUN3D

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Pedro Paredes, Dr. Meelan Choudhari

  5. Separation and Transition on a Cone-Cylinder-Flare: Experimental Campaigns

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Meelan Choudhari, Pedro Paredes

  6. Separation and Transition on the ROTEX-T Cone-Flare

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Pedro Paredes, Vojtech Pezlar, Jonathan Davami

  7. Ground Tests on the BOLT Geometry at Mach 6 and 7: Cross-Facility Comparison and Stability Analysis

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Pedro Paredes, Dr. Meelan Choudhari

  8. Separation and Transition on a Cone-Cylinder-Flare: Computational Investigations

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Meelan Choudhari, Pedro Paredes

  9. Modeling Boundary-Layer Transition in Subsonic Flow over a Swept Wing

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Meelan Choudhari, Pedro Paredes

  10. Boundary-Layer Transition Induced by an Isolated Roughness Element in Mach 6 Quiet Flow

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Pedro Paredes

  11. Modal Instabilities over Blunted Cones at Angle of Attack in Hypersonic Flow

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, March 2023, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Pedro Paredes

  12. Boundary-Layer Instabilities over a Cone–Cylinder–Flare Model at Mach 6

    Article • AIAA Journal, July 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Pedro Paredes, Dr. Elizabeth Benitez

  13. Nonlinear Evolution of Instabilities in a Laminar Separation Bubble at Hypersonic Mach Number

    Article • June 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Meelan Choudhari, Pedro Paredes

  14. Linear Disturbance Amplification Over Blunted Flat Plates in High-Speed Flows

    Article • June 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Hemanth Goparaju, Dr. Meelan Choudhari, Pedro Paredes

  15. Combined Bluntness and Roughness Effects on Cones at Hypersonic Speeds

    Article • June 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Pedro Paredes, Dr. Meelan Choudhari

  16. Interaction of a Tunnel-like Acoustic Disturbance Field with a Blunt Cone Boundary Layer at Mach 8

    Article • June 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Pedro Paredes, Dr. Meelan Choudhari

  17. Stability Analysis of Streaks Induced by Optimized Vortex Generators

    Article • June 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Pedro Paredes, Dr. Meelan Choudhari

  18. Transition Analysis for the CRM-NLF Wind Tunnel Configuration

    Article • January 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Pedro Paredes, Dr. Meelan Choudhari

  19. Toward a Practical Method for Hypersonic Transition Prediction Based on Stability Correlations

    Article • AIAA Journal, October 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Meelan Choudhari, Pedro Paredes, Muhammad Irfan Zafar

  20. Predicting Boundary-Layer Transition over Backward-Facing Steps via Linear Stability Analysis

    Article • AIAA Journal, September 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Meelan Choudhari, Pedro Paredes

  21. Streak Instability Analysis on BOLT Configuration

    Article • June 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Meelan Choudhari, Pedro Paredes

  22. Boundary layer transition on blunt cones at hypersonic speeds

    Article • AIAA Journal, November 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Pedro Paredes, Meelan Choudhari, Prof. Joseph S Jewell

  23. Nonlinear Görtler Vortices and Their Secondary Instability in a Hypersonic Boundary Layer

    Article • June 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Meelan Choudhari, Pedro Paredes

  24. Laminar-Turbulent Transition Upstream of the Entropy-Layer Swallowing Location in Hypersonic Boundary Layers

    Article • June 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Meelan Choudhari, Pedro Paredes

  25. Numerical Investigation of Roughness Effects on Transition on Spherical Capsules

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, March 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Meelan Choudhari, Pedro Paredes, Alexander Theiß

  26. Nose-Tip Bluntness Effects on Transition at Hypersonic Speeds

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, March 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Meelan Choudhari, Prof. Joseph S Jewell, Pedro Paredes

  27. Effect of 3D Roughness Patch on Instability Amplification in a Supersonic Boundary Layer

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Meelan Choudhari, Lian Duan, Pedro Paredes

  28. Nonmodal Growth of Traveling Waves on Blunt Cones at Hypersonic Speeds

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Prof. Joseph S Jewell, Dr. Meelan Choudhari, Pedro Paredes

  29. Instability wave–streak interactions in a high Mach number boundary layer at flight conditions

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, November 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Pedro Paredes

  30. Blunt-Body Paradox and Improved Application of Transient-Growth Framework

    Article • AIAA Journal, July 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Dr. Meelan Choudhari, Pedro Paredes