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  1. Effects of Jet Plume on Hypersonic Sonic Boom of Slender Bodies

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  2. Effects of Initial Conditions and Chemical Kinetics on Cellular Multiplicity of Regular Channel Hydrogen Detonations

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

    Suryanarayan Ramachandran, Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  3. Reduced Order Residual Neural Networks for Plasma Streamer Propagation

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

    Taaresh Sanjeev Taneja, Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  4. Predicting Critical Parameters of Hydrocarbon Species using Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  5. Three-Dimensional Structures of H 2 /Air Oblique Detonation Waves

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  6. Drift-Diffusion Modeling of Non-equilibrium Plasma Streamers with Photoionization

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

    Gihun Shim, Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  7. A Feature-Focused Neural Network based Bi-Fidelity Surrogate Model for Combustion Prediction in Aerial Internal Combustion Engines

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang, Chol-Bum "Mike" Kweon

  8. Accelerating Accurate Prediction of Real-Fluid Thermodynamics in Ansys for GPU-Based CFD

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  9. Transverse Waves and Ignition Dynamics in Oblique Detonations of Different Shock-Detonation Transition Types

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  10. Morphology of Micro-Jets in Fully Three-Dimensional vs. Narrow-Channel Detonations

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  11. Modeling of Plasma Ignition of Low Cetane Fuels in an Aerial Internal Combustion Engine

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang, Chol-Bum "Mike" Kweon

  12. Numerical Modeling of Spark Ignition in Aerial Internal Combustion Engines Using Low Cetane Number Synthetic Aviation Fuels

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang, Chol-Bum "Mike" Kweon

  13. Computational and Experimental Evaluation of Sonic Boom From a HTV-2 Type Hypersonic Boost Gliding Vehicle with High-Enthalpy Inlet Conditions

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

    Phillip Portoni, Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  14. 3D Phenomenological Modeling of Plasma-Assisted Ammonia Reforming

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

    Gihun Shim, Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  15. Simulation of Shock-Droplet Interactions at Detonation-Relevant Conditions Using Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium Theory

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  16. Real-Fluid Equilibrium Evaporation Model for Lagrangian-Eulerian Simulation of Sustainable Aviation Fuel Sprays at High-Pressure Gas-Turbine Conditions

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  17. Micro-Jetting Dynamics in Channel Detonations of High-Activation Energy Mixtures

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

    Suryanarayan Ramachandran, Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  18. 2D Modeling of Plasma Streamer and Glow Phases at Ammonia-Air Flame Conditions

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  19. Iso-Surface Sampler for Developing High-Dimensional Engine Controllers Using High-Fidelity CFD Models

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang, Chol-Bum "Mike" Kweon

  20. Local-Transfer Gaussian Process (LTGP) Learning for Multi-Fuel Capable Engines

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang, Chol-Bum "Mike" Kweon

  21. Phenomenological Modeling of Plasma-Assisted Methane Ignition Using Plasma Energy Fraction Manifolds

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang, Chol-Bum "Mike" Kweon

  22. Three-Dimensional Micro-Jetting Dynamics in a Stoichiometric H2/Air Detonation

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang, Suryanarayan Ramachandran

  23. Flame acceleration and deflagration to detonation transition in a microchannel with catalytic nickel walls

    Article • Physics of Fluids, November 2024, American Institute of Physics

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  24. Artificial neural network aided vapor–liquid equilibrium model for multi-component high-pressure transcritical flows with phase change

    Article • Physics of Fluids, August 2024, American Institute of Physics

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  25. Simulation of a Reacting Jet in Cross-Flow: detailed chemistry, molecular differential diffusion, and vorticity

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang, Gihun Shim

  26. Microscopic Hypersonic Jetting in Oblique Detonation Waves

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang, Suryanarayan Ramachandran

  27. Simulation-based Engine Control for an Ignition-Assisted Diesel Engine with Varying Cetane Number Fuels

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang, Chol-Bum "Mike" Kweon

  28. Artificial Neural Network based Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium Modeling for Simulation of Transcritical Multiphase Flows

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  29. Numerical Modeling of Energy Assisted Compression Ignition Engines for Aerial Operations

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang, Chol-Bum "Mike" Kweon, Andrea Schirru

  30. 3D phenomenological modeling of plasma-assisted methane reforming

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  31. 1D Simulation of Avalanche to Streamer to Spark Transition of Plasma Discharge in Ammonia-Air Combustion

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  32. VLE-Based Phase Field Method to Simulate High-Pressure Diffuse Interface with Phase Change

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  33. VLE-Based High Pressure Stationary Droplet Evaporation at Spray Detonation Conditions

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang, Sai Sandeep Dammati, Suryanarayan Ramachandran

  34. Numerical simulation of virus-laden aerosol transmission in real human respiratory airways

    Article • Physics of Fluids, October 2023, American Institute of Physics

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  35. A numerical investigation of deflagration propagation and transition to detonation in a microchannel with detailed chemistry: Effects of thermal boundary conditions and vitiation

    Article • Physics of Fluids, July 2023, American Institute of Physics

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  36. Pressure effects on soot formation and evolution in turbulent jet flames

    Article • Physics of Fluids, January 2023, American Institute of Physics

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  37. Airborne transmission of virus-laden aerosols inside a music classroom: Effects of portable purifiers and aerosol injection rates

    Article • Physics of Fluids, March 2021, American Institute of Physics

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  38. Numerical Modeling of Plasma Assisted Pyrolysis and Combustion of Ammonia

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  39. Computational Diagnostics for Reacting Flows with Global Pathway Analysis Aided by Chemical Explosive Mode Analysis

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  40. Comparison between Flat and Creviced Pistons in a Controlled Trajectory Rapid Compression and Expansion Machine (CT-RCEM)

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang, Krishna Chandra Bavandla

  41. A Numerical Study on Soot Formation and Evolution in Pressurized Turbulent Sooting Flames

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  42. Numerical investigation of spatial-developing turbulent heat transfer in forced convections at different supercritical pressures

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, October 2020, Elsevier

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  43. Large Eddy Simulation of soot evolution in turbulent reacting flows: Strain-Sensitive Transport Approach for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

    Article • Combustion and Flame, October 2020, Elsevier

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  44. Comparison of Finite Rate Chemistry and Flamelet/Progress-Variable Models: Sandia Flames and the Effect of Differential Diffusion

    Article • Combustion Science and Technology, April 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  45. An OpenFOAM-based fully compressible reacting flow solver with detailed transport and chemistry for high-speed combustion simulations

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  46. Optimization and uncertainty quantification of spray break-up submodel with regularized multi-task neural nets

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  47. A Numerical Study on Soot Formation and Evolution in Co-flow Diffusion Flames under Elevated Pressures

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  48. Thermodynamic Analysis of Supercritical CO2 Systems

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  49. A robust reacting flow solver with detailed transport, chemistry, and steady-state preserving splitting schemes based on OpenFOAM and Cantera

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  50. Evaluation of a non-equilibrium multi-component evaporation model for blended diesel/alcohol droplets

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  51. Hybrid Method of Moments to Predict Nanoparticle Nucleation, Growth and Charging in Dusty Plasmas

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  52. Numerical Simulation of a Controlled Trajectory Rapid Compression Machine

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  53. An efficient finite-rate chemistry model for a preconditioned compressible flow solver and its comparison with the flamelet/progress-variable model

    Article • Combustion and Flame, December 2019, Elsevier

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  54. Large Eddy Simulation of soot evolution in turbulent reacting flows: Presumed subfilter PDF model for soot–turbulence–chemistry interactions

    Article • Combustion and Flame, November 2019, Elsevier

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  55. Time-Resolved Electron Temperature and Species Measurements and Predictions of Plasma-Assisted Reforming of Methane

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang, Aric Rousso

  56. A Multi-Moment Sectional Method (MMSM) for tracking the soot Number Density Function

    Article • Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, June 2018, Elsevier

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  57. Comparison of Finite-Rate Chemistry and Flamelet/Progress-Variable Models II: Sandia Flame E

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  58. Multiscale modeling and general theory of non-equilibrium plasma-assisted ignition and combustion

    Article • Journal of Physics D Applied Physics, September 2017, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  59. Sensitivity of predictions to chemical kinetics models in a temporally evolving turbulent non-premixed flame

    Article • Combustion and Flame, September 2017, Elsevier

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  60. Comparison of Tabulation and Correlated Dynamic Evaluation of Real Fluid Properties for Supercritical Mixing

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang, Umesh Unnikrishnan

  61. Subgrid Scale Modeling of the Equation of State for Turbulent Flows under Supercritical Conditions

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang, Umesh Unnikrishnan

  62. Global Pathway Analysis of the Extinction and Re-ignition of a Turbulent Non-Premixed Flame

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  63. The effects of ozonolysis activated autoignition on non-premixed jet flame dynamics: a numerical and experimental study

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  64. Effects of Non-Equilibrium Plasma Discharge on Ignition and NTC Chemistry of DME/O2/Ar Mixtures: A Numerical Investigation

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  65. Comparison of Flamelet/Progress-Variable and Finite-Rate Chemistry LES Models in a Preconditioning Scheme

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  66. Low temperature oxidation and pyrolysis of n-heptane in nanosecond-pulsed plasma discharges

    Article • Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, October 2016, Elsevier

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  67. Nanosecond Pulsed Plasma Activated C2H4/O2/Ar Mixtures in a Flow Reactor

    Article • Journal of Propulsion and Power, September 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  68. Parallel on-the-fly adaptive kinetics in direct numerical simulation of turbulent premixed flame

    Article • Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, July 2016, Elsevier

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  69. A global pathway selection algorithm for the reduction of detailed chemical kinetic mechanisms

    Article • Combustion and Flame, May 2016, Elsevier

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  70. Parallel On-the-fly Adaptive Kinetics for Non-equilibrium Plasma Discharges of C2H4/O2/Ar Mixture

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  71. Plasma Assisted Low Temperature Combustion

    Article • Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing, October 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  72. Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Nanosecond-Pulsed Plasma Activated C2H4/O2/Ar Mixtures in a Low Temperature Flow Reactor

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  73. A Detailed Comparison of Thermal and Nanosecond Plasma Assisted Ignition of Hydrogen-Air Mixtures

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

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang

  74. Well-Balanced Central Schemes on Overlapping Cells with Constant Subtraction Techniques for the Saint-Venant Shallow Water System

    Article • Journal of Scientific Computing, August 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Richard & Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor Suo Yang