Focus Areas
- Flow field diagnostics
- Gravity wave detection
- Hazardous gas detection
- Laser propagation through turbulence
- Remote sensing
Faculty and Research Staff
Faculty
Arthur Dogariu
- Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering
- Office: HRBB 746C
- Phone: 979-458-1825
- Email: adogariu@tamu.edu
Adonios Karpetis
- Undergraduate Program Coordinator, Aerospace Engineering
- Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering
- Engineering Honors Coordinator, Aerospace Engineering
- Office: HRBB 607C
- Phone: 979-458-4301
- Email: karpetis@tamu.edu
Boris Leonov
- Research Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering
- Office: ALLEMO 205
- Phone: 979-845-0003
- Email: bleonov@tamu.edu
Richard Miles
- Professor, Aerospace Engineering
- Member, National Academy of Engineering
- University Distinguished Professor
- O'Donnell Foundation Chair V
- Office: HRBB 607B
- Phone: 979-458-2534
- Email: rmiles@tamu.edu
Nathan Tichenor
- Research Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering
- Chief Research Officer, Bush Combat Development Complex
- Director of Hypersonic Facilities, Bush Combat Development Complex
- Office: HRBB 616B
- Phone: 979-317-1303
- Email: ntichenor@tamu.edu
Staff
Kevin Brown
- Laser Technologist, Aerospace Laboratory for Lasers, ElectroMagnetics and Optics
- Phone: 979-845-0003
James Creel
- Senior Research Engineer IV, Aerospace Laboratory for Lasers, ElectroMagnetics and Optics
- Research Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering
- Office: ALLEMO 202
- Phone: 936-870-5324
- Email: james.creel@tamu.edu
Nathan Jergens
- Technical Laboratory Manger and Safety Officer, National Aerothermochemistry and Hypersonics Laboratory
- Email: njergens@tamu.edu
John Kochan
- Technical Laboratory Manager, Aerospace Laboratory for Lasers, ElectroMagnetics and Optics
- Phone: 979-845-0003
- Email: jkochan@lswt.tamu.edu
Laboratories and Facilities
Aerospace Laboratory for Lasers ElectroMagnetics and Optics (ALLEMO)
The ALLEMO is located next to the National Aerothermodynamics and Hypersonics Laboratory (NAL) to rapidly implement new diagnostics funded by the Chancellor's Research Initiative with matching funds from the Texas Governor’s University Research Initiative (GURI). Research conducted at the ALLEMO focuses on new diagnostic capabilities for hypersonics and combustion, aerodynamic control, and stand-off detection of hazardous gases and atmospheric properties. The facility includes a LIDAR lab with an observatory dome, an ultrafast nonlinear optics lab, a diagnostics development laboratory and a 120-foot lab with a subscale atmospheric facility.
Faculty supervisor: Richard Miles
Website: allemo.engr.tamu.edu
Ballistic, Aero-optics and Materials (BAM) Range
Ballistic, Aero-optics, and Materials (BAM) Range at the George H.W. Bush Combat Development Complex will be a large-scale, fully enclosed multi-disciplinary research and development facility capable of evaluating high-energy laser propagation, hypersonic aerothermodynamics, and hypervelocity impact response of materials and structures. This is accomplished within a fully characterized test channel that can achieve controllable atmospheric conditions. Once completed, the BAM Range will be the largest and most fully instrumented facility of its kind in the United States.
Faculty supervisor: Nathan Tichenor
Website: bcdc.tamus.edu/facilities/bam