30 Apr 2024
AIAA Outstanding Paper Award for Oxford Thermofluids Institute team
DPhil student, researcher and their supervisors won the award for paper entitled ‘Experimental Characterization of a Small Scale Arc-Jet Flow Using a Spatially Resolved UV-nIR Spectroscopy System’
Plasma plume inside the test chamber of the miniaturised arc-jet facility OPG
The AIAA Ground Testing Technical Committee has granted an Outstanding Paper Award to an Oxford Thermofluids team comprising a DPhil student, a postdoctoral researcher and their supervisors, for a paper entitled ‘Experimental Characterization of a Small Scale Arc-Jet Flow Using a Spatially Resolved UV-nIR Spectroscopy System’.
The Ground Testing Technical Committee (GTTC) is one of more than 60 technical committees sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
A certificate was presented at the 2024 AIAA SciTech Forum in Orlando, Florida, in January 2024 to DPhil student Mailys Buquet and her co-authors - postdoctoral researcher Eric Chang, Dr Tobias Hermann and Professor Benjamin Williams.
Mailys is a third year DPhil student in the Hypersonics Group, which carries out pioneering research into short duration wind tunnels and associated instrumentation. Their work is primarily concerned with experimental research relevant to planetary entry, atmospheric cruise and access to space.
She says, “I am very honoured - it makes me want to believe I am on the right path, which means a lot as a young researcher!”
