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  1. Delay of Crossflow Transition on a Yawed Cone at Mach 6

    Article • January 2026, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Pedro Paredes, Dr. Meelan Choudhari

  2. Boundary-Layer Transition Over a Smooth Circular Cone at Non-Zero Angle of Attack in a Mach 8 Digital Wind Tunnel

    Article • January 2026, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Pedro Paredes, Dr. Meelan Choudhari

  3. Direct Numerical Simulation of Wall Cooling on Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Transition

    Article • January 2026, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Pedro Paredes

  4. Resolvent Forcing for Recreating Turbulent Boundary Layers Using Scale-Resolving Methods

    Article • January 2026, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Luis Villalobos, Pedro Paredes

  5. Evaluation of Global Thermography Methods for Hypersonic Aeroheating Measurements

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

    Pedro Paredes

  6. Design Optimization for Early Natural Transition Over High-Speed Axisymmetric Configurations

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

    Pedro Paredes, Dr. Meelan Choudhari, Ethan Vogel

  7. Wall-Cooling Effects on Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Instabilities and Transition

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

    Pedro Paredes

  8. Instability and Transition on the ROTEX-T Cone-Flare in Supersonic Quiet Flow

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

    Jonathan Davami, Pedro Paredes

  9. Eigenvalue Sensitivity Computations for Linear Stability Theory

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

    Pedro Paredes

  10. Aerodynamic Design Optimization for Natural Laminar Flow Airfoils

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

    Dr. Meelan Choudhari, Pedro Paredes

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

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

    Pedro Paredes

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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, Zachary McDaniel

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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, Zachary McDaniel

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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, Prof. Joseph S Jewell

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. Stability Analysis of Streaks Induced by Optimized Vortex Generators

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

    Pedro Paredes, Dr. Meelan Choudhari

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

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

    Pedro Paredes, Dr. Meelan Choudhari

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. Streak Instability Analysis on BOLT Configuration

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

    Dr. Meelan Choudhari, Pedro Paredes

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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

  34. 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

  35. 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

  36. 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

  37. 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

  38. 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

  39. 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