Ross S. Chaudhry

Ross S. Chaudhry is a postdoctoral associate at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received his Ph.D from the University of Minnesota in 2018. His dissertation work used quantum chemistry data to design reduced-order thermochemical kinetics models for CFD, designed to study the airflow around vehicles at hypersonic conditions. His new model is now implemented in two hypersonic CFD codes and is being used by authors at several institutions. He is currently collaborating with experimentalists on verification and investigating where in parameter space are quantities of interest sensitive to chemical kinetics. He has also examined the freestream disturbance content in hypersonic wind tunnel facilities, for which he received a NATO AVT panel excellence award as part of the "Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Transition Prediction" team. Finally, he developed and taught "Introduction to Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics", a graduate-level course at CU Boulder.