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Macdonald, Robyn

Assistant Professor

Positions

Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences

Research Areas

Aerospace Engineering

Research

research overview

Prof. Macdonald's research deals with modeling and simulation of hypersonic flows. In particular, she focuses on topics related to high-temperature gas phase chemistry, turbulence and transition modeling using a combination of large eddy simulation and direct numerical simulation.

keywords

hypersonic flows, non-equilibrium thermochemistry, chemical kinetics, computational fluid dynamics, turbulence modeling, large-eddy simulation, transition modeling

Publications

selected publications

chapter
- Heavy-particle elementary processes in hypersonic flows 2019
conference proceeding
journal article
- State-to-State Oxygen and Nitrogen Recombination Rates Computed Using Selectively Sampled Quasiclassical Trajectories. Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer. 396-413. 2026
- State-to-state study of non-equilibrium recombination of oxygen and nitrogen molecules. Journal of Chemical Physics. 2024
- State-to-State Master Equation and Direct Molecular Simulation Study of Energy Transfer and Dissociation for the N₂ - N System. Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 6986-7000. 2020
- Construction of a coarse-grain quasi-classical trajectory method. I. Theory and application to N₂-N₂ system. Journal of Chemical Physics. 2018
- Construction of a coarse-grain quasi-classical trajectory method. II. Comparison against the direct molecular simulation method. Journal of Chemical Physics. 2018
- Nonequilibrium radiation and dissociation of CO molecules in shock-heated flows. Physical Review Fluids. 2016

Background

education and training

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2018
B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2013

awards and honors

Early Career Faculty (ECF), conferred by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2023
Young Investigator Program (YIP), conferred by Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 2021
Thermophysics Award, conferred by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2018
National Defense Science And Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG), conferred by Department of Defense, 2015

International Activities

geographic focus

United Kingdom Country

Other Profiles

ORCID iD

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5678-7736

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.com/citations?authuser=5&user=ggXz9D4AAAAJ