3/3/2016 Susan Mumm, Media Specialist
Written by Susan Mumm, Media Specialist
Since joining AE in 2006, Bodony has established himself as an international leader in developing novel numerical techniques and using large scale computers to investigate and control compressible turbulent flows, with applications focusing on aerospace systems and their generated noise.
His research activities have led to important advances in the development and application of advanced numerical tools for a wide variety of complex flow physics and multiphysics (fluid/structure/acoustics) interaction problems.
Bodony develops and uses high-fidelity numerical methods on peta- and pre-exascale parallel computers to simulate compressible turbulent flows with complex, compliant thermo-elastic boundaries, including the ability to control and optimize them. Bodony helped originate the physical problem that is the focus of the $20 million Parallel Computing Institute’s Center for Exascale Simulation of Plasma-Coupled Combustion; he also developed the Center's code.
His group also investigates the biomechanics of sound generation of the human vocal folds, which is the focus of his 2012 National Science Foundation CAREER award.
Over the past few years, Bodony’s research has led to:
- the first Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) of a compressible turbulent boundary layer grazing a dynamic thermo-elastic surface;
- the first DNS of an acoustic liner used by modern commercial aircraft, with the very first time-domain reduced-order model capable of describing the liner at realistic conditions;
- the first provably stable numerical methods for overset grids used to simulate compressible flows, which are now being evaluated for OVERFLOW, one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's main codes. OVERFLOW is also used by aerospace industry;
- the first comprehensive, fundamental theory for actuator and sensor placement to control compressible viscous flows.
Bodony is a Willett Faculty Scholar in Engineering at Illinois, and also is a Blue Waters Associate Professor, giving him significant access to the Urbana campus’ Blue Water facility, one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world.
He was elected an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2013, and was a co-winner of the AIAA Best Paper Award in Fluid Dynamics.
Bodony earned a PhD in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University in 2005 after earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Purdue University in 1997 and 1998, respectively.