Supersonic Inlets Lab

AE Alumni Board Funds First Endowed AE Fellowship

Aerospace Engineering at Illinois is pleased to announce that full funding has now been achieved for the department's first endowed graduate fellowship.

Prof. Scott White highlighted in 'Bloomberg Businessweek'

AE Prof. Scott R. White and his research have been featured on magazine's website.

AE Students Awarded Rockwell Collins Scholarships

Three AE students have received scholarships of $5,000 each, thanks to the philanthropy of Rockwell Collins, Inc.

AE Students Compete in NASA Lunabotics Competition

AE students are members of a University of Illinois team competing in the Third Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition, hosted by NASA.

Tanaka Wins CDC Best Student Paper Award

AE graduate student Takashi Tanaka won the 2011 Best Student Paper Award from the Conference on Decision and Control of IEEE.

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Faculty Researchers:	Location:	Phone:	Website:
Professor E. Loth	Room B220D Mechanical Engineering Laboratory	217-244-5581

Description of Research:

Directed by Professor E. Loth. Shockwave boundary layer interaction in a supersonic wind tunnel is studied by both passive and active flow control techniques. Diagnostics include laser doppler velocimetry, ultra-high-speed flow visualization (one million frames per second), passive and reactive Mie scattering, pressure sensitive paint, and digital image processing.