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Boyd, Iain Douglas

H.T. Sears Endowed Professor

Positions

Endowed/Named Professor, College of Engineering and Applied Science
Faculty Director, National Security Working Grp
Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences

Research Areas

Aerospace Engineering

Research

research overview

Computational modeling of the aerothermochemistry and material response associated with hypersonic vehicles including plasma formation and radiation signatures. Analysis of the thrust generation and plume characteristics of spacecraft electric propulsion systems.

keywords

Hypersonics, space propulsion, material response, rarefied gas dynamics, plasma dynamics, radiation, computational fluid dynamics, Monte Carlo methods

Publications

selected publications

book
- Nonequilibrium Gas Dynamics and Molecular Simulation 2017
- Statistical Mechanics 2017
chapter
- Handbook of Materials Modeling 2020
- Heavy-particle elementary processes in hypersonic flows 2019
- Collisional Quantities. 323-328. 2017
- Common Integrals. 346-348. 2017
- Determining Post-Collision Velocities. 329-337. 2017
conference proceeding
- Aero-Thermo-Elastic Sensitivity Analysis of a Scramjet Inlet 2025
- Aerothermodynamic Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization of a Hypersonic Re-Entry Vehicle 2025
- Circuit Analysis of an Electron Transpiration Cooling System for Hypersonic Leading Edges 2025
- Experimental and Computational Assessment of O₂and NO Individual Vibrational States in Reflected Shock Flows 2025
- Predictor-Corrector Aerocapture Guidance Using Convex Programming 2025
journal article
- Sensitivity Analysis of Ionization in Two-Temperature Models of Hypersonic Airflows. Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer. 478-490. 2024
- Investigation of Surface-Catalycity Effects on Hypersonic Glide Vehicle Trajectory Optimization. Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. 1019-1031. 2024
- State-resolved modeling of electronic excitation in weakly ionized oxygen mixtures. Physical Review E. 2024
- Effects of multi-dimensionality and energy exchange on electrostatic current-driven plasma instabilities and turbulence. Journal of Plasma Physics. 2024
- Collisional-radiative modeling of shock-heated nitrogen mixtures. Journal of Applied Physics. 2024

Background

education and training

Ph.D., University of Southampton (England) 1988
B.S., University of Southampton (England) 1985

awards and honors

Thermophysics Award, conferred by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2018
Fellow, conferred by American Physical Society, 2014
AIAA Fellow, conferred by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2011
Lawrence Sperry Award, conferred by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1998

International Activities

geographic focus

Turkey Country
United Kingdom Country

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ORCID iD

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3725-9206