Bio
Born on an airbase in Germany. Aerodynamicist/Designer, Instructor Pilot, SCUBA Diver, Outdoors Adventurer, Traveler, Family, Community, Country. U.S. Air Force Academy Professor.
Education
Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland (2019)
M.S. Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland (2015)
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (2013)
Professional Experience
Visiting Researcher, United States Air Force Academy Aeronautics Laboratory (2021-Present)
Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland teaching incompressible aerodynamics (2022)
National Research Councial Post-Doctoral Fellow studying parachute fabric aerodynamics (2019-2021)
Honors & Awards
IOP Reviewer of the Year, Bioinspiration and Biomimetics (2023)
National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2019-2021)
Alexander Brown Memorial Scholarship and Award (2019)
Future Faculty Fellow (2017-2018)
Ground Test Technical Committee Outstanding Paper Award (2015)
Research and Scholarly Interests
Supersonic vehicle aerodynamics
Unsteady vortex development
Fluid-Structure Interactions
Bioinspired fluid dynamics
Publications
Shumway, Nathan, Hrynuk, John, and Stutz, Colin. “The behavior of unconstrained parachute fabric under aerodynamic loading.” Journal of Fluids and Structures 113 (2022): 103644
Shumway, Nathan, Gabryszuk, Mateusz, and Laurence, Stuart. “The impact of dragonfly wing deformations on aerodynamic performance during forward flight.” Bioinspiration and Biomimetics 15.2 (2020): 026005
Shumway, Nathan. “Leading edge vortex growth during pitching maneuvers on a flat plate and NACA 0012.” AIAA SciTech Forum, January 2025
Weston, Lance and Shumway, Nathan. “The Interaction of a sonic jet and the supersonic flow around a conical body.” AIAA Aviation Forum, July 2024
Boranian, John, Setzer, Andrew, Shumway, Nathan, Deckert, Robert, and Dickinson, Benjamin. “Experimental and numerical comparison of different missile body cross sectional shapes.” AIAA Aviation Forum, July 2024
Shumway, Nathan, Ghoreyshi, Mehdi. “Experimental and numerical comparison of different missile body cross sectional shapes.” AIAA SciTech Forum, January 2023
Shumway, Nathan. “Unsteady fabric vibration and the resulting wake velocity oscillations.” AIAA Aviation Forum, August 2021
Shumway, Nathan, and Jones, Anya. “The initial growth of normalized circulation of the leading-edge vortex on surging and rotating wings.” AIAA SciTech Forum, January 2020
Shumway, Nathan, and Laurence, Stuart. “Methods for identifying key features in schlieren images from hypersonic boundary-layer stability experiments.” 53rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January 2015