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  1. Experimental Investigation of Hypersonic Sharp-Fin Shock-Wave/Transitional-Boundary-Layer Interactions

    Article • AIAA Journal, December 2025, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Stuart Laurence

  2. Shock Perturbations in Attached Turbulent Shock-Wave/Boundary-Layer Interactions at Mach 6

    Article • January 2025, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Stuart Laurence, Grant Duemmel

  3. The Aerodynamics of Free-Flying Cylinders in High Supersonic Flow

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

    Stuart Laurence

  4. An Experimental Investigation on the Effects of Dust on Separating Sphere Clusters in Hypersonic Flow

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

    Stuart Laurence

  5. Hypersonic Aerothermal Computations of a Sharp Fin Interaction

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

    Stuart Laurence, Joseph Signorelli

  6. Flow Characterization of a Newly Commissioned High-Temperature Ludwieg Tube at the University of Maryland

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

    Stuart Laurence

  7. Development of a Supersonic Ludwieg-Tube Facility for Investigating High-Speed Multi-Phase Flows

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

    Stuart Laurence

  8. High Enthalpy Effects on Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Transition: T5 Experimental and Numerical Comparison

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

    Tony Liang, Laura Paquin, Stuart Laurence

  9. Computer-Graphics-Based Optical Tracking for Hypersonic Free-Flight Experiments

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

    Stuart Laurence

  10. Fluid-Thermal-Structural Interactions in Ramp-Induced Shock-Wave Boundary-Layer Interactions at Mach 6

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

    Stuart Laurence, Bryson Sullivan, Maxim Freydin

  11. Development of a Direct-Connect Testing Capability in the HyperTERP Shock Tunnel

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

    Stuart Laurence

  12. Direct Numerical Simulation of Boundary Layer Receptivity to Acoustic Radiation in a Hypersonic Compression Ramp Flow

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

    Stuart Laurence, Fabian Dettenrieder

  13. Characterization of High-Frequency Acoustic Sources Using Laser Differential Interferometry

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

    Stuart Laurence

  14. Direct Simulation of Fluid–Structure Interaction in a Hypersonic Compression-Ramp Flow

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

    Bryson Sullivan, Stuart Laurence

  15. Hypersonic Fluid–Structure Interactions in Compression Corner Shock-Wave/Boundary-Layer Interaction

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

    Stuart Laurence, Bryson Sullivan

  16. Interaction of Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Instability Waves with Axisymmetric Compression and Expansion Corners

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

    Stuart Laurence

  17. A Roadmap for Obtaining and Implementing Heat Flux Measurements in the Hypersonic Environment

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

    Dr Valerio Viti, Stuart Laurence

  18. Separation dynamics of a spherical particle detaching from a two-dimensional ramp in hypersonic flow

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

    Stuart Laurence, Cole Sousa

  19. Visualizations of Boundary-Layer Transition on a Sharp Cone at Mach 6

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

    Stuart Laurence, Prof. Joseph S Jewell

  20. Visualizations of Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Transition on a Variable Bluntness Cone

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

    Stuart Laurence, Prof. Joseph S Jewell

  21. HyperTERP: A newly commissioned hypersonic shock tunnel at the University of Maryland

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

    Stuart Laurence

  22. Particle tracer comparison in a Mach 3 Tunnel

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

    Stuart Laurence, Laura Paquin

  23. The impact of deformation on the aerodynamics of flapping dragonfly wings

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

    Stuart Laurence

  24. Unsteady Surface and Flowfield Measurements in Ramp-Induced Turbulent and Transitional Shock-Wave Boundary-Layer Interactions at Mach 6

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

    Stuart Laurence, Bryson Sullivan

  25. Theoretical and Numerical Study of a Preheated Ludwieg Tube with Adiabatic Compression

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

    Stuart Laurence

  26. Improved Analysis of the Lift Force on a Free-Flying Capsule in a Shock Tunnel

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, September 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Stuart Laurence

  27. Force and Moment Measurements on a Free-Flying Capsule in a Shock Tunnel

    Article • Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, March 2018, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Stuart Laurence

  28. Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Transition Features from High-Speed Schlieren Images

    Article • January 2017, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Stuart Laurence

  29. Experimental study of second-mode instability growth and breakdown in a hypersonic boundary layer using high-speed schlieren visualization

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, May 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Stuart Laurence

  30. Adiabatic-compression preheated Ludwieg tube for the realistic simulation of hypersonic flows

    Article • July 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Stuart Laurence

  31. Free Flight Testing of a Scramjet Engine in a Large Scale Shock Tunnel

    Article • July 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Stuart Laurence, Sebastian Karl

  32. Methods for Identifying Key Features in Schlieren Images from Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Instability Experiments

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Stuart Laurence

  33. Investigation of Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Transition Using High-Speed Visualization Techniques

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stuart Laurence

  34. Fast-response temperature-sensitive-paint measurements on a hypersonic transition cone

    Article • Experiments in Fluids, December 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stuart Laurence

  35. Schlieren-based techniques for investigating instability development and transition in a hypersonic boundary layer

    Article • Experiments in Fluids, July 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stuart Laurence

  36. Visualization of Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Transition on a Slender Cone (Invited)

    Article • June 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Stuart Laurence, Hiroshi Ozawa

  37. Transient fluid-combustion phenomena in a model scramjet

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, March 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Stuart Laurence

  38. Dynamical separation of spherical bodies in supersonic flow

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, October 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Stuart Laurence

  39. Time-Resolved Visualization of Instability Waves in a Hypersonic Boundary Layer

    Article • AIAA Journal, January 2012, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Stuart Laurence

  40. Shock-wave surfing

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, April 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Stuart Laurence

  41. An improved visualization-based force-measurement technique for short-duration hypersonic facilities

    Article • Experiments in Fluids, November 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stuart Laurence

  42. Image-based force and moment measurement in hypersonic facilities

    Article • Experiments in Fluids, September 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stuart Laurence

  43. Proximal bodies in hypersonic flow

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, October 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Stuart Laurence