2026
Novel Methods for Evaluating Shock-Droplet Interactions
B Cavainolo, K Nguyen, R Forehand, R Shannon, M Kinzel, S Grace
AIAA SCITECH 2026 Forum, 1733, 2026
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Reed Forehand
Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering — University of Central Florida
Dissertation / Thesis
"A Numerical Assessment of Shock-Raindrop Interaction: An Investigation of Cavitation Dynamics Driven by Internal Pressure Wave Focusing"
View document ↗M.S. Thesis (2019–2021)
"Numerical Modeling of Shockwave Initiated Combustion of a Hydrogen-Oxygen Mixture Within a Shock Tube"
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Publications
2024
Onto modeling of cavitation inside a cylindrical water column exposed to high-speed shocks
KC Nguyen, R Forehand, SM Briggs, N Berube, S Vasu, MP Kinzel, et al.
AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum, 2195, 2024
2024
A Numerical Investigation of the Effect of Cavitation on Hypersonic Shock-Raindrop Interaction and Breakup
R Forehand, K Nguyen, SM Briggs, N Berube, S Vasu, MP Kinzel, et al.
AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum, 2192, 2024
2024
Investigation of cavitation in water droplet breakup from shock waves
SM Briggs, N Berube, DR Dyson, A Aguilera, KC Nguyen, R Forehand, et al.
AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum, 2191, 2024
2023
Multi-Scale modeling of Shock-Droplet interaction within a shock tube
R Forehand, KC Nguyen, C Anderson, SM Briggs, N Berube, S Vasu, et al.
AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum, 2304, 2023
2023
Experiments on water droplet breakup in a detonation medium
SM Briggs, N Berube, DR Dyson, R Forehand, MP Kinzel, S Vasu, et al.
AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum, 2257, 2023
2023
A numerical assessment of shock–droplet interaction modeling including cavitation
RW Forehand, KC Nguyen, CJ Anderson, R Shannon, SM Grace, et al.
Physics of Fluids 35 (2), 2023
2023
Numerical Modeling of Compression Waves for Hypersonic Shock-Cylinder Interaction with Cavitation
K Nguyen, R Forehand, M Kinzel, S Grace
Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 2023
2023
A Numerical Assessment of Hypersonic Raindrop Interaction: Understanding Cavitation-Induced Fragmentation
R Forehand, K Nguyen, M Kinzel
Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 2023
2022
A Computational Fluid Dynamics Model of Shockwave Initiated Combustion
R Forehand, MP Kinzel
AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum, 3842, 2022