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July 7, 2025

90,000x Faster: Breakthrough Cuts Rocket Engine Simulations from Days to Seconds

A research team led by UT Austin has achieved a 90,000x speedup in simulating next-generation rotating detonation rocket engines, dramatically reducing computation time. This breakthrough enables real-time engine design and optimization. 

These plots show the pressure fields over time for a rotating detonation rocket engine, where the detonation wave rotates around the annulus of the engine and creates thrust. Credit: Farcas

These plots show the pressure fields over time for a rotating detonation rocket engine, where the detonation wave rotates around the annulus of the engine and creates thrust. Credit: Farcas

News

June 23, 2025

Karen Willcox Recipient of 2024 JSCES Grand Prize

Willcox is the first woman to receive the Grand Prize, which is awarded by the Japan Society for Computational Engineering and Science.

Willcox (center) with attendees at the the JSCES Conference.

Willcox (center) with attendees at the the JSCES Conference.

News

May 29, 2025

Building Community: Rising Stars in Computational and Data Sciences Annual Workshop

The sixth annual workshop provides an atmosphere for networking for early career researchers. The workshop includes interactive panels and career path opportunities.

2025 Rising Stars cohort. Credit: Joanne Foote/Oden Institute

2025 Rising Stars cohort. Credit: Joanne Foote/Oden Institute

Next Upcoming Event

Scalable, Risk-Aware, and Uncertainty-Driven Forward and Inverse Problems in Reservoir Modeling

Ryan Farell, PhD Candidate, Oden Institute

2 p.m.– 4 p.m.

July 15, 2025

ETC 5.132 and Zoom

Feature

Jan. 24, 2025

Bridging Continents: Leszek Demkowicz Retires After Distinguished Career in Theoretical and Applied Mathematics

Leszek Demkowicz – Principal Faculty at the Oden Institute and expert in theoretical and applied mathematics – reflects on his career as he steps into phased retirement.

Feature

Jan. 10, 2025

Images from the DOE’s E3SM global climate model showing atmospheric rivers carrying moisture from lower latitudes to the very far north arctic.  Several relevant model components are shown including wind, ocean temperature and sea-ice coverage.

Connecting the Dots: Visualizing Science

Working with scientists, visual artists bring to light the nuances hidden in huge data.

Feature

Oct. 17, 2024

Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering

Could Hydrogen, Ammonia Blends Become the Key to Clean Electricity?

Oden Institute affiliated faculty members Fabrizio Bisetti and Noel Clemens are combining hydrogen and ammonia, which are in many ways natural complements, as a potential source for generating carbon-free electricity.

News

May 20, 2025

UT Graduate Students Find Missing Link in Early Martian Water Cycle

Today, Mars is largely dry, at least at the surface. But 3 to 4 billion years ago — at around the time that life was getting started on Earth — oceans, lakes and rivers carved valleys through Mars’ mountains and craters and imprinted shorelines in the rocky surface. Researchers hope to build a model to better understand Mars water cycle.

Early Mars, as it may have been, billions of years ago. Graduate students published research that suggests much of the planet’s water was locked underground. Credit: Ittiz/Wikimedia Commons

Early Mars, as it may have been, billions of years ago. Graduate students published research that suggests much of the planet’s water was locked underground. Credit: Ittiz/Wikimedia Commons