Biography
Ral Bielawski completed his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering at Dalhousie University and his doctorate at the University of Michigan exploring scramjets, detonation engines and multiphase detonations. At UCF, Bielawski leverages high performance computing to explore next generation propulsion systems for high-speed vehicles. He focuses particularly on the use of detonations to achieve hypersonic propulsions and understanding multiphase detonations.
Recent Publications
- Abisleiman, S., Sharma, V., Bielawski, R., Raman, V., Structure of Three-dimensional Conical Oblique Detonation Waves, Computers & Fluids, 2025
- Prakash, S., Bielawski, R., Raman, V., Ahmed, K., Bennewitz, J., ”Three-dimensional Numerical Simulations of a Liquid RP-2/O2 based Rotating Detonation Engine”, Combustion and Flame 259, 2024
- Bielawski, R., Barwey, R., Prakash, S., Raman, V., ”Highly-scalable GPU-accelerated compressible reacting flow solver for modeling high-speed flows”, Computers & Fluids, 2023
Education
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Specialties
- Propulsion
- Detonations
- Scramjets
- Multiphase flows
- Computational fluid dynamics