The award enables science and technology research that would not be possible without extraordinary computer resources.

The awarded hours are typically utilized in very large projects which use up to 100 percent of the processors on a supercomputer and produce many terabytes of data.

Poggie is the principal investigator for a new U.S. Department of Defense high-performance computing modernization program beginning in October, titled “Prediction of Hypersonic Laminar-Turbulent Transition through Direct Numerical Simulation.” The project is focused on making conventional hypersonic wind tunnels more useful for vehicle design by helping designers work through the noise and turbulence present in the tunnels and allowing them to more accurately interpret the results of the wind tunnel tests.

He also received the 2017 W. A. Gustafson Award for Outstanding Teaching. The recipient is selected by the juniors and seniors of the AAE student body. Poggie’s research interests have encompassed the experimental, computational, and theoretical aspects of fluid dynamics and plasma physics. Current work in his research group focuses on turbulence in compressible flow, large-scale separation unsteadiness, and electrical discharges for flow control.