Brian Thurow, W. Allen and Martha Reed associate professor in Auburn University’s Department of Aerospace Engineering, has been awarded a collaborative $1 million grant by the Office of Naval Research Jet Noise Reduction Program (ONR-JNR) along with researchers from the University of Mississippi’s National Center for Physical Acoustics, University of Texas and Combustion Research and Flow Technology Inc.

The JNR program funds research that explores reducing jet noise to address health and safety issues, as well as technology that can increase stealth capabilities for military jet propelled aircraft.

Thurow’s work will include taking high speed flow visualization measurements up to 1,000,000 frames per second in a supersonic jet facility at the National Center of Physical Acoustics. He will also use near and far field microphone array measurements to study the aeroacoustics of heated shock-containing jets and computational modeling of air flows to reduce jet noise.

Contributed by Amelia Williams